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Excitonics heats up

Nature Photonics volume 3, page 604 (2009)Cite this article

Until now, excitonic devices have only been realized at temperatures of 1.5 K. Nature Photonics spoke to Leonid Butov from the University of California in San Diego about his group's recent demonstration of excitonic switches operating at 125 K.

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Pile, D. Excitonics heats up. Nature Photon 3, 604 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.186

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