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What does exciton mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) A bound state of an electron and an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor
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Studies of exciton migration, conception of redox molecular switches and of novel type of glues.
Some specific quasiparticles are the exciton, phonon, magnon, and polaron.
The densely packed pigments in chlorosomes and the rapid energy transfer between them lead to onset of exciton annihilation at remarkably low light level.
With smaller dimensions than the exciton Bohr radius, they display unique optical and electronic properties at diameters of about one to ten nm.
Thanks to the strong-coupling regime, it is possible to confine polaritons either through their photon or through their exciton part.
The large bandwidths of the bands reflected the short lifetime of these states due to fast exciton relaxation.

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