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Local and Global Directionality Patterns of Electron Photoemission from Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Concepts of local and global photoemission directivity patterns are
introduced for plasmonic nanoparticles of arbitrary shape, and the relationship between
them is established. Formulas for the local photoemission directionality pattern for
surface and volume photoemission mechanisms are obtained for a given field distribution
in plasmonic modes inside nanoparticles of arbitrary shape. As an illustration of the
theory, the local and global photoemission patterns are calculated for spherical
nanoparticles with excited dipole or quadruple plasmonic modes. It is shown that the
patterns resulting from the surface and volume photoemission differqualitatively as well
as the patterns produced by various plasmonic modes. The findings can be useful in
various plasmonic applications, namely, nanostructured photocathodes, photodetectors,
in plasmonic photocatalysis, and others.