Polaritons are an odd cross-breed of a particle, half-matter, half-light. They could offer an abundant crop of new and improved optoelectronic devices — a promise already being fulfilled.
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Deveaud-Plédran, B. Polaritronics in view. Nature 453, 297–298 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453297a
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