Resonant hot charge-transfer excitations in fullerene-porphyrin complexes: Many-body Bethe-Salpeter study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Duchemin, Ivan ^a   Blase, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

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EID: 84879011656     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.245412     Document Type: Article

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