The exciton is
the excited electron paired...
Not exact matches
This cascading process occurs in many
pairs of
excited atoms, resulting in the emission of a large number of low - energy
electrons.
In a series of experiments, the team fired an unspeakably brief, extremely ultraviolet laser pulse at a helium atom to start
exciting its
pair of
electrons.
When both members of the
pair became
excited, one of them would normally fall to the lower rung before being struck by an incoming photon, producing no photon along the way and leaving too few
excited electrons to make laser light.
To do this, they fired ultraviolet laser pulses lasting 100 to 200 attoseconds (10 - 18 seconds) at a helium atom to start
exciting its
pair of
electrons.