Imaging Half-Light, Half-Matter Quasiparticles (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

Imaging Half-Light, Half-Matter Quasiparticles

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This image shows how researchers launched and studied half-light, half-matter quasiparticles called exciton-polaritons. A laser from the top left shines on the sharp tip of a nano-imaging system aimed at a flat semiconductor. The red circles inside the semiconductor are the waves associated with the quasiparticles.

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Image courtesy of Zhe Fei/Iowa State University

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