Room-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of cavity exciton-polaritons in a polymer

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 247-252

  Plumhof, Johannes D ^a,c   Stöferle, Thilo ^a   Mai, Lijian ^a   Scherf, Ullrich ^b   Mahrt, Rainer F ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c U2T PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

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EID: 84894479214     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3825     Document Type: Article

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