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The article discusses the development on the applications of excitons for several areas in technology and research. It states that solid-state physicists at New York University and Du Pont's Experimental Station produced exciton fission that occurs in tetracene crystals. It notes that scientists point some possibities for excitons applications including in photochemistry and solid-state physics, display computer data, transfer energy and insights into photosynthesis in plants and cancer in man.

Reports on an experiment on the fission of exciton at New York University in the U.S. in 1969. Information on the organic crystal used in the experiment; Reason for the low concentration of excitons generated in any crystal; Efficiency of the exciton fission in producing longer-lived triplet excitons.

The article reports on the photodetection capabilities of plasmonic lens. Researchers at the Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. were able to enhance the capability of plasmonic lens, specifically a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM), through corrugating the metal contacts of MSM without affecting the speed of the operation of the device.