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Exciton–Polaritons in Organic Semiconductor Optical Microcavities

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Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities

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The large exciton binding energies and oscillator strengths of organic semiconductors have allowed the realization of strong exciton–photon coupling at room temperature in microcavities containing a wide variety of materials. The first part of this chapter reviews the physics of organic semiconductors and initial observations of cavity polaritons in this class of materials. In the second part, the linear optical properties of crystalline organic microcavities are discussed and contrasted to previous organic and inorganic microcavity results. The chapter concludes with a discussion of recent organic polariton lasing results and future prospects for realizing nonlinear behavior using organic polaritons.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Universal Display Corp. for partial financial support of this work.

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    Stéphane Kéna-Cohen

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Kéna-Cohen, S., Forrest, S.R. (2012). Exciton–Polaritons in Organic Semiconductor Optical Microcavities. In: Timofeev, V., Sanvitto, D. (eds) Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24186-4_14

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