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Surface exciton polaritons are elementary excitations propagating along the boundary between an outside dielectric medium and a crystal which has Wannier-type excitons as elementary bulk excitation. These surface modes may be observed optically by the attenuated-totalreflection method, for example. Their properties are determined by spatial dispersion resulting from the center-of-mass motion of excitons. Surface exciton polaritons propagate close to the crystal surface and therefore react strongly to influences by the surface such as exciton-free surface layers.
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Lagois, J., Fischer, B. (1978). Introduction to surface exciton polaritons. In: Treusch, J. (eds) Festkörperprobleme 18. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0107782
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