Plasmonic metal-oxide metastructures comprise arrays of Au nanoantennas embedded in Si layers, with a top ultrathin layer of Al oxide, supporting an Au/Si Schottky junction in the vicinity of a Si/Al oxide charge barrier. In such structures the hot electrons generated by nonradiative decay of plasmons can be captured by the Schottky junctions, forming an electrostatic field via charge accumulation in the Si layers. When thin layers of semiconductor quantum dots are placed on top of such structures, such a field suppresses their non-radiative decay rates, making them far more efficient emitters. We study the impact of plasmon modes of the Au nanoantennas on the exciton-plasmon coupling enhancement supported by such a material platform.
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