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Exciton photonics

Exciton photonics research highlights transmission electron microscopy imaging exitonic long-range waves able to couple Flat and functional of hydrophilic gold nanoparticles. AS with light, called surface exciton polaritons Nature Chem. 6, 468–476 (2014) (SEP), have been demonstrated in the past 40 years. Now, Bill Barnes and co-workers Timeless amber have proposed the possibility of exciting Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165901 (2014) localized SEP modes, which have so far The low-temperature behaviour of been the missing ingredient for excitonic amorphous, glassy materials differs light manipulation at the nanoscale. By markedly from their ordered, crystalline studying dye-doped polymers, they show counterparts. A celebrated example of this the existence of a negative real permittivity difference is the so-called boson peak, an region and theoretically predict that enhancement in the density of vibrational these nanostructured materials can states measurable in the specific heat of support localized SEP modes that induce glasses. Its precise origin is a matter of field-enhancement and subwavelength field 100 µm some debate. Put simply, are anomalous confinement, the two fundamental features features such as the boson peak intrinsic that have made plasmonics so successful. ON to glasses, or are they eventually supressed Many synthetic methods used to make by sufficiently strong annealing or ageing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Exciton photonics

Nature Materials , Volume 13 (6) – May 21, 2014

Exciton photonics

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research highlights transmission electron microscopy imaging exitonic long-range waves able to couple Flat and functional of hydrophilic gold nanoparticles. AS with light, called surface exciton polaritons Nature Chem. 6, 468–476 (2014) (SEP), have been demonstrated in the past 40 years. Now, Bill Barnes and co-workers Timeless amber have proposed the possibility of exciting Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165901 (2014) localized SEP modes, which have so far The low-temperature...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN
1476-1122
eISSN
1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat4005
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Abstract

research highlights transmission electron microscopy imaging exitonic long-range waves able to couple Flat and functional of hydrophilic gold nanoparticles. AS with light, called surface exciton polaritons Nature Chem. 6, 468–476 (2014) (SEP), have been demonstrated in the past 40 years. Now, Bill Barnes and co-workers Timeless amber have proposed the possibility of exciting Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165901 (2014) localized SEP modes, which have so far The low-temperature behaviour of been the missing ingredient for excitonic amorphous, glassy materials differs light manipulation at the nanoscale. By markedly from their ordered, crystalline studying dye-doped polymers, they show counterparts. A celebrated example of this the existence of a negative real permittivity difference is the so-called boson peak, an region and theoretically predict that enhancement in the density of vibrational these nanostructured materials can states measurable in the specific heat of support localized SEP modes that induce glasses. Its precise origin is a matter of field-enhancement and subwavelength field 100 µm some debate. Put simply, are anomalous confinement, the two fundamental features features such as the boson peak intrinsic that have made plasmonics so successful. ON to glasses, or are they eventually supressed Many synthetic methods used to make by sufficiently strong annealing or ageing

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Published: May 21, 2014

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