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polariton

[pə′lar·ə‚tän]
(solid-state physics)
A coupled mode of motion in an ionic crystal due to the coupling between the electromagnetic field and transverse optical phonons of long wavelength.
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As the light strikes the sensing area, it excites free electrons, causing them to oscillate and generate a highly confined propagating surface wave, called a surface plasmon polariton. This propagating surface wave will in turn excite a bulk wave propagating across the sensing platform.
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Polariton An exciton or similar particle coupled to a photon; leading to energy-efficient lasers
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If the propagation constant of the incident light in dielectric medium is matched with that of the SP at metal-dielectric interface the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode is generated.
Sub-micron plasmonic waveguide for efficient sensing of bio-fluids
Metaspacers can be designed to support different types of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes.
On negative index metamaterial spacers and their unusual optical properties
Most of these effects appears due to an excitation of Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) resonances.
Perforated nanoantenna reflectarray
Generalizing the properties of the PhCs to the dispersive media, Rupasov and Singh studied the quantum electrodynamics of a single two-level atom placed in a frequency dispersive medium (DM) and found a polariton-atom bound state with an eigenfrequency lying within the gap of the polariton spectrum [20, 23].
Dynamics of the energy relaxation and decoherence of a photon-atom bound state in an anisotropic photonic crystal
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Further transposals from the Dictionary of American Regional English
Key words: dielectric; electromagnetic fields; loss factor; metamaterials; microwave; millimeter wave; nanoscale; permeability; permittivity; plasmon; polariton.
The interaction of radio-frequency fields with dielectric materials at macroscopic to mesoscopic scales
One characteristic of these plasmons is that they can join with a photon to become a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) which can travel along the surface of the metal until it dissipates its energy in to the metal or through radiation in to the adjoining medium - such as air.
Holograms from surface plasmons
"The polariton switch unifies the best properties of electronics and optics into one tiny device that can deliver at very high speeds while using minimal amounts of power," said the paper's lead author Dr Alexander Dreismann from Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.
Liquid Light Switch Could Enable More Powerful Electronics
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