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EPSRC Reference:	EP/C005678/1
Title:	Support for international conferences (OECS9/ICSCE2)
Principal Investigator:	Baumberg, Professor JJ
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Department:	Sch of Physics and Astronomy
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 August 2005	Ends:	31 October 2005	Value (£):	25,617
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Optoelect. Devices & Circuits
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Inside a solid crystal, excitons behave like atoms. They can wander around, they can absorb and emit quanta of light, and they can bounce off each other. Excitons are formed from orbiting electrons (negatively charged) and holes (absent electrons so positively charged) inside a semiconductor. Many of the devices we take for granted inside our electronics depend on features of these interacting charges. Excitons are ubiquotous in many of the fascinating and promising new materials that physicists, chemists, material scientists and engineers are investigating.The conferences here bring together a diverse collection of these scientists and engineers to dicuss progress in understanding the properties of excitons. The most fruitful areas of exciton science are when their properties are modified by placing them inside tiny structures, often artifically created. Under certain conditions the excitons appear to condense into a new sort of fluid that has strange properties, but emits light extremely efficiently.Such international conferences are hothouses for devising new ways to do experiments and theory. They bring different specialists together who often wouldn't be able to connect remoter parts of these subjects. They are invaluable for young researchers particularly, who open the eyes to see a wider perspective on the standard and scale of research worldwide.
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