Re: Light Duality

On Mar 27, 1:31 pm, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSensel...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm not that particular about phonons, but plasmons are just plain
silly--they're just electromagnetic surface waves, so if you need a name
for their quanta, they're photons. The name "plasmon" is a particularly
lurid example of the excesses of nomenclature that Lamb was talking about.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs (plasmonic *ugh* physicist)


What about the name "hole", as in an electron-hole pair generated when
a photon, err, I mean a light quanta with proper energy (wavelength),
is absorbed by semiconductor? Actually I was thinking about this
process when I posted the original message.


Q Ray

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