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plasmon

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noun

  1. genetics the sum total of plasmagenes in a cell
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Origin of plasmon1

C20: from German, from Greek plasma. See plasma
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Aluminum nanoparticles absorb and scatter light with remarkable efficiency due to surface plasmon resonance, a phenomenon that describes the collective oscillation of electrons on the metal surface in response to light of specific wavelengths.

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The researchers found that the atoms of a small dye molecule used for medical imaging can vibrate in unison - forming what is known as a plasmon - when stimulated by near-infrared light, causing the cell membrane of cancerous cells to rupture.

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“We are screaming, ‘Plasmon, plasmon, plasmon!’ because that’s a compelling, existing phenomenon that we think might be relevant for interpreting dark matter experiments,†says Gordan Krnjaic, a dark matter theorist at and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and a co-author of the first study.

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This discussion caught the attention of other physicists, such as Lin, who quickly jumped to work on plasmon calculations.

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Both papers take slightly different approaches to plasmon production.

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