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Surface Exciton Polaritons

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Excitons

Part of the book series: Topics in Current Physics ((TCPHY,volume 14))

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Surface polaritons are elementary excitations which are propagating along the boundary between a crystal and an outside dielectric medium. The energy range of surface polaritons lies in the gap between the corresponding transverse and longitudinal bulk excitation energies. When this bulk excitation is a plasmon or a phonon or an exciton, the associated surface mode is called a surface plasmon or a surface phonon or a surface exciton polariton.

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Fischer, B., Lagois, J. (1979). Surface Exciton Polaritons. In: Cho, K. (eds) Excitons. Topics in Current Physics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81368-9_4

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