Principal Investigator Vladimir Bulovic
Co-investigator Keith Nelson
This working group combines excitons with photons to form ‘exciton polaritons’ -- new states of matter and energy. The combination of excitons and photons has important new properties that may be exploited in new classes of energy conversion devices, especially ultralow threshold lasers which may be the foundation of future solid state lighting. Optical outcoupling is a major loss in modern LEDs, but this loss can be eliminated in lasers.