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Back Cover: Semiconducting and Plasmonic Copper Phosphide Platelets (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 26/2013)
Author(s) -
Manna Goutam,
Bose Riya,
Pradhan Narayan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201304260
Subject(s) - materials science , surface plasmon resonance , micrometer , plasmon , nucleation , copper , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , optics , chemistry , metallurgy , nanoparticle , physics , organic chemistry
Size‐tunable Cu 3 P platelets can be synthesized in the nano‐ to micrometer‐size range by controlling the nucleation density, as described by N. Pradhan et al. in their Communication on page 6762 ff. These platelets show high‐contrast Moiré patterns, absorb light over most of the solar spectrum, and show localized surface plasmon resonance in the NIR region. These properties, along with a high extinction coefficient and their rectification behavior, make them potential photovoltaic materials.