Definition of "excitonics" []

• The study of excitons and their behavior in semiconductors and dielectrics. (noun)

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• "Mark Baldo (MIT) and Xiaoyang Zhu (Univ Texas) will report on the latest research on excitonics, devices which exploit the movement through a semiconducting material of electrons paired up with vacancies in the crystal."