How to Use exciton in a Sentence

exciton

noun
  • When the voltage is switched off, the excitons flow again.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The team has now built the first transistor-like switch that controls exciton flow.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Which gets us to the Jauregui and Liu excitons.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The researchers realized that excitons did not sit in the same way as free electrons and holes.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • As more electrons entered the system, exciton motion slowed.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • When nearly every site filled with an electron, exciton mobility jumped sharply.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Even when a photon with more energy than needed hits the solar cell, only one exciton is generated.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These then tug at the surrounding atoms, creating a ‘dent’ in the crystal lattice, producing a state known as an exciton-polaron.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Singlet fission is a process in which a single high-energy exciton splits into two lower-energy excitons.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The combination of the ridge and light drove excitons in one direction for four micrometers in less than half a nanosecond at room temperature.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Among these attempts at a practical BEC are those composed of exciton polaritons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Aug. 2016
  • At very high electron densities, holes inside excitons began treating all nearby electrons as equivalent.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Precision control with electric fields The team went further by showing that dark excitons could be tuned on demand using electric and magnetic fields.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Dark excitons are exotic light-matter states found in atomically thin semiconductors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Photonic systems based on exciton-polaritons could potentially avoid much of that waste because light produces far less heat than moving electrical charges.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • The monolayer crystal also supports the formation of electron-hole pairs—also known as excitons—at room temperature.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Instead of freezing, excitons suddenly traveled farther than before.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Now, under normal conditions, one photon excites one electron, creating a single unit of usable energy, known as an exciton.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This precise setup amplified light emission from dark excitons by nearly 300,000 times.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Blue light photons, which currently overshoot the threshold and shed the excess as heat, could instead be split into two usable excitons each, reducing heat loss and increasing current.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of producing one exciton per photon, the process allows a single high-energy photon to result in two lower-energy excitons.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Solving the control problem Despite their potential, excitons are difficult to direct.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Physicists often describe excitons as monogamous because breaking them apart requires energy.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • At low electron densities, excitons behaved normally.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • University of Michigan engineers have created a new nanostructure that can guide and stop excitons at room temperature.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The study authors focused on creating quasiparticles called exciton-polaritons.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • Scientists have long questioned whether plasmonic structures could enhance dark excitons without altering their intrinsic nature.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The team demonstrated that extending exciton lifetimes can significantly reduce the problem.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • If successful, this work could mark the beginning of a new era in computing, where excitons replace electrons and energy-hungry devices give way to faster, cooler, and more efficient technologies.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lienau explained that light that strikes the nanostructure’s surface is briefly stored into a hybrid quantum state known as an exciton-plasmon polariton for about 70 femtoseconds before it is reflected.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026

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