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ReviewNature communications2026

Signatures of nonthermal carriers in nonlinear photoluminescence.

Robert Lemasters, Yuankai Tang, Hayk Harutyunyan

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Review in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robert LemastersDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. robertdlemasters@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8723-1050
Yuankai TangDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. yuankai.tang@emory.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8240-0099
Hayk HarutyunyanDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. hayk.harutyunyan@emory.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-746X

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0020101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrafast light emission from plasmonic nanostructures provides a sensitive probe of the energetic electrons generated by intense optical excitation. The way this emission scales with excitation intensity has long been read through the lens of heated electron populations at an elevated temperature, yet this picture cannot reconcile the variety of behaviors seen across different materials and experiments. We argue that transient nonthermal electrons play a far larger role than has been appreciated. We present a unified description that reproduces emission behavior across diverse systems and outline experiments needed to resolve their signatures.

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PMID42431940
PMCPMC13354552

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