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中国物理学会期刊

等离激元金属-半导体复合电极的界面声子热输运特性

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250683

Interfacial phonon thermal transport properties of plasmonic-metal-semiconductor composite electrodes

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250683
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  • 为了优选等离激元太阳能分解水体系中金属和半导体的复合光电极, 本文采用非平衡分子动力学方法计算了等离激元金属Cu, Ag和Au与半导体TiO2, ZnO和MoS2的复合电极在不同温度下的界面热导, 并通过计算声子态密度和声子参与率研究了不同频率的声子与界面热导的关系. 结果表明, 随温度的增加, 不同复合电极的界面热导增加. 在相同的半导体TiO2上, Cu-TiO2和Ag-TiO2界面热导均高于Au-TiO2, Cu-TiO2复合电极的界面热导在800 K时可以达到973.56 MW·m–2·K–1. 对于等离激元金属Au, 相对MoS2和TiO2, 其与ZnO复合的界面导热更高; 而对于等离激元金属Cu, Cu-TiO2的界面热导高于预测的Cu-ZnO, 这取决于更多处于核心热输运频段的低频声子参与界面热输运.

     

    Plasmonic solar water splitting is produced on the composite electrode with plasmonic metal nanoparticles loaded on semiconductor, where the localized heating generated by relaxation of the metal’s localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) under light excitation enhances hydrogen production efficiency. To optimize composite photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting system, the non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are conducted to obtain the interfacial thermal conductivity between plasmonic metals (Cu, Ag, Au) and semiconductors (TiO2, ZnO, MoS2) at varying temperatures. The relationship between interfacial thermal conductivity and phonons at different frequencies is investigated via vibrational density of states which is calculated from the velocity autocorrelation functions and subsequent phonon participation ratio. The results indicate that as he temperature increases, the interfacial thermal conductivity of all composite electrode configurations is enhanced. When Cu and Ag are combined with TiO2 into Cu-TiO2 and Ag-TiO2, respectively, the thermal transport performances of Cu-TiO2 and Ag-TiO2 are superior to Au-TiO2, and the interfacial thermal conductivity of Cu-TiO2 reaches 973.56 MW·m–2·K–1 at 800 K. With Au as the fixed plasmonic component, Au-ZnO shows that its interfacial thermal conductivity reaches 324.44 MW·m–2·K–1 at 800 K, which is higher than those of Au-MoS2 and Au-TiO2. Based on the obtained interfacial thermal conductivity of different composite photoanodes, it is predicted that Cu-ZnO is the optimal composite, but its interfacial thermal conductivity is 547.69 MW·m–2·K–1 at 800 K, second only to Cu-TiO2. The analysis of vibrational density of states and phonon participation ratio shows that the low-frequency region (0—10 THz) is the main region for thermal transport, and both interfaces exhibit a high phonon participation ratio range of 0.7—0.8. However, the Cu-TiO2 possesses much higher vibrational density of states than Cu-ZnO within this critical band. Although Cu-ZnO exhibits a higher phonon participation ratio range in the high-frequency range, its lower overall interfacial thermal conductivity is attributed to the minimal contribution of high-frequency phonons to interfacial thermal conductance. The findings provide optimization strategies based on interfacial thermal transport mechanisms for constructing efficient photoanodes for solar water splitting.

     

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