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Electron distributions and corresponding timescales of the fundamental processes in laser heating of Au NPs: the initial distribution (a) is excited to a non-thermal state (b); before relaxing to the Fermi-Dirac distribution (c) and finally returning to the initial state once energy has been transferred to the surrounding medium (after Link and El-Sayed [33]).
