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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EXCITON

From excit(ation) + -on.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EXCITON

exciton  [ˈɛksaɪˌtɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXCITON

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Exciton is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXCITON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Exciton

An exciton is a bound state of an electron and an electron hole which are attracted to each other by the electrostatic Coulomb force. It is an electrically neutral quasiparticle that exists in insulators, semiconductors and in some liquids. The exciton is regarded as an elementary excitation of condensed matter that can transport energy without transporting net electric charge. An exciton can form when a photon is absorbed by a semiconductor. This excites an electron from the valence band into the conduction band. In turn, this leaves behind a positively-charged electron hole. The electron in the conduction band is then effectively attracted to this localized hole by the repulsive Coulomb forces from large numbers of electrons surrounding the hole and excited electron. This attraction provides a stabilizing energy balance. Consequently, the exciton has slightly less energy than the unbound electron and hole. The wavefunction of the bound state is said to be hydrogenic, an exotic atom state akin to that of a hydrogen atom. However, the binding energy is much smaller and the particle's size much larger than a hydrogen atom.

Definition of exciton in the English dictionary

The definition of exciton in the dictionary is a mobile neutral entity in a crystalline solid consisting of an excited electron bound to the hole produced by its excitation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXCITON


automaton
ɔːˈtɒməˌtɒn
demeton
ˈdemɪˌtɒn
disulfoton
daɪˈsʌlfəˌtɒn
feuilleton
ˈfʊɪˌtɒn
futon
ˈfuːˌtɒn
graviton
ˈɡrævɪˌtɒn
hyperbaton
haɪˈpɜːbəˌtɒn
magneton
ˈmæɡnɪˌtɒn
parton
ˈpɑːˌtɒn
peloton
ˈpɛləˌtɒn
periphyton
pəˈrɪfɪˌtɒn
sabaton
ˈsæbəˌtɒn
soliton
ˈsɒlɪˌtɒn
zacaton
ˈzækəˌtɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXCITON

excisional
excitability
excitable
excitableness
excitably
excitancy
excitant
excitation
excitative
excitatory
excite
excited
excitedly
excitedness
excitement
exciter
exciting
excitingly
excitonic
excitor

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXCITON

alarm clock Briton
Billiton
Briton
chiton
Honiton
ice piton
mirliton
multiton
niton
piton
positon
triton

Synonyms and antonyms of exciton in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «exciton» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXCITON

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激子
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excitón
570 millions of speakers

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exciton
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exciton
380 millions of speakers
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الأكسيتون
280 millions of speakers

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экситонов
278 millions of speakers

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exciton
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exciton
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exciton
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Gembira
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Exziton
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励起子
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여기자
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Exciton
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exciton
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எக்சைட்டான்
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Exciton
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

exciton
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eccitone
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Translator English - Polish

ekscytonu
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Translator English - Ukrainian

екситонів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excitonilor
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exciton
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exciton
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exciton
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exciton
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXCITON»

Discover the use of exciton in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exciton and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities: New Frontiers
This monograph summarizes the current state of the art of research on exciton polaritons in microcavities: their interactions, fast dynamics, spin-dependent phenomena, temporal and spatial coherence, condensation under non-equilibrium ...
Daniele Sanvitto, Vladislav Timofeev, 2012
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Charge and Exciton Transport through Molecular Wires
Bringing together experiment and theory to enable applications in real-life devices, this handbook and ready reference provides essential information on how to control and direct charge transport.
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, Ferdinand C. Grozema, 2011
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Circular Dichroism: Principles and Applications
NINA BEROVA and KOJI NAKANISHI Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 12.1 EXCITON CHIRALITY METHOD: BASIC PRINCIPLES The exciton chirality method [1], developed from the simple " dibenzoate ...
Nina Berova, Koji Nakanishi, Robert Woody, 2000
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Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials
For GaAs this corresponds to about 12 nm or about 21 lattice constants – in other words the spherical volume of the exciton radius contains ≈ (a B/a0)3 or ≈ 9000 unit cells, where a0 is the lattice constant of GaAs. As Ry∗ ≪ Eg and a B ≫ a0, ...
Safa Kasap, Peter Capper, 2007
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Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
2.3 Effect of Inhomogeneous Broadening 2.3.1 Exciton Polariton Ladder In our microcavity samples grown by MBE, the amplitude of the exciton po- lariton normal-mode splitting agrees well with the theoretical value deduced from the excitonic ...
Y. Yamamoto, F. Tassone, H. Cao, 2000
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Exciton Transport, Charge Extraction, and Loss Mechanisms in ...
Chapter 2 Measuring Exciton Transport 2.1 Introduction to Excitons In most organic semiconductors, the absorption of a photon creates a bound singlet exciton which must migrate to a donor-acceptor interface where the exciton may be ...
Shawn Ryan Scully, 2009
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Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties
As in any two-particle system, the exciton motion can be decomposed into two parts: a center-of-mass (CM) motion and a relative motion of the two particles about the CM. With this decomposition, the potential acting on the exciton CM still has ...
Peter YU, Manuel Cardona, 2010
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Optical Properties of Low-dimensional Materials
Thereafter this L% line is often cited as "self-trapped exciton" recombination [99] . The exciton PL spectra contain important information about the electronic states, exciton scattering, the homogeneity of the sample, impurity centers, and alloy ...
Tetsuo Ogawa, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu, 1998
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Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices
Exciton Diffusion Once an organic exciton is photogenerated, it typically diffuses ( e.g., via intrachain or interchain energy transfer or "hopping," including Forster energy transfer for a singlet exciton) to a remote site. At the same time, the exciton ...
Sam-Shajing Sun, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, 2005
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Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, ...
4.4 Extension to the Exciton Matrix Element Calculation Recent theories and experiments on carbon nanotubes support a picture where excitonic effects are important to optical spectroscopy. Strongly bound excitons are predicted for ...
Ado Jorio, Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXCITON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exciton is used in the context of the following news items.
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Researchers Observe Transient Excitons in Metals
Multidimensional electronic spectroscopy is commonly used to study coherent phenomena in condensed matter materials, such as exciton ... «Novus Light Technologies Today, Jul 15»
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Global moist wound dressings market - industry research report and …
... Derma Sciences, Inc., Advanced Medical Solutions, Exciton Technologies Inc., B. Braun, Innocoll Inc., Polyremedy Inc. and Smith & Nephew. «WhaTech, Jul 15»
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Long-Lived Carriers for Organic Solar Cells
In biological systems, some light is absorbed and an exciton — a bound electron-hole pair — is created. “In most organic systems, including ... «Solar Novus Today, Jul 15»
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Perovskites make superior solar cell materials
New spectroscopic measurements of the exciton binding energy in perovskites go a long way in explaining why these emergent, low-cost class ... «nanotechweb.org, Jun 15»
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Thin semiconductors go through the Mott transition
"In the unexcited material, when a photon is absorbed, it creates an exciton (a bound electron–hole pair), formed by the Coulomb attraction ... «physicsworld.com, Jun 15»
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Exciton, Exciton on the Wall
Researchers have observed, in metals for the first time, transient excitons – the primary response of free electrons to light. Here, the ... «Newswise, Jun 15»
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Doped nanocrystals blink and delay
Second, the luminescent excited state in copper-doped CdSe lasts up to 10 times as long as the exciton (electron-hole pair) in undoped CdSe ... «nanotechweb.org, Jun 15»
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Beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit with singlet exciton fission
In some organic semiconductors, this spin-singlet exciton spontaneously splits into two spin-triplet excitons in a process known as exciton ... «SPIE Newsroom, Jun 15»
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Organic molecules for efficient bendable displays and lighting
In an operating OLED, an energetic state called an exciton forms when a high-energy electron arrives at a molecule missing a lower-energy ... «SPIE Newsroom, May 15»
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Synopsis: A Polariton Fridge for Semiconductors
In a semiconductor, exciton polaritons are hybrid states formed through the coupling of photons with excitons (bound electron-hole pairs). «Physics, May 15»

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