The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

Perovskite semiconductors for room-temperature exciton-polaritonics

R Su, A Fieramosca, Q Zhang, HS Nguyen… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Lead-halide perovskites are generally excellent light emitters and can have larger exciton
binding energies than thermal energy at room temperature, exhibiting great promise for …

Molecular chemistry in cavity strong coupling

K Hirai, JA Hutchison, H Uji-i - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light–
matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway …

Shining light on the microscopic resonant mechanism responsible for cavity-mediated chemical reactivity

C Schäfer, J Flick, E Ronca, P Narang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Strong light–matter interaction in cavity environments is emerging as a promising approach
to control chemical reactions in a non-intrusive and efficient manner. The underlying …

Strong light–matter interactions: a new direction within chemistry

M Hertzog, M Wang, J Mony, K Börjesson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
It is possible to modify the chemical and physical properties of molecules, not only through
chemical modifications but also by coupling molecules strongly to light. More intriguingly …

Molecular polaritons for controlling chemistry with quantum optics

F Herrera, J Owrutsky - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This is a tutorial-style introduction to the field of molecular polaritons. We describe the basic
physical principles and consequences of strong light–matter coupling common to molecular …

Polariton-mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strongly coupled optical microcavity

DM Coles, N Somaschi, P Michetti, C Clark… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Strongly coupled optical microcavities containing different exciton states permit the creation
of hybrid-polariton modes that can be described in terms of a linear admixture of cavity …

Reversible switching of ultrastrong light-molecule coupling

T Schwartz, JA Hutchison, C Genet, TW Ebbesen - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We demonstrate that photochromic molecules enable switching from the weak-to ultrastrong-
coupling regime reversibly, by using all-optical control. This switch is achieved by …

Exciton-plasmon coupling interactions: from principle to applications

E Cao, W Lin, M Sun, W Liang, Y Song - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
The interaction of exciton-plasmon coupling and the conversion of exciton-plasmon-photon
have been widely investigated experimentally and theoretically. In this review, we introduce …

Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity

DG Lidzey, DDC Bradley, MS Skolnick, T Virgili… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
The modification and control of exciton–photon interactions in semiconductors is of both
fundamental,,, and practical interest, being of direct relevance to the design of improved light …