Exciton Formation and Decay at Surfaces and Interfaces

Dynamics at Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 325-358

  Muntwiler, Matthias ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyang ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction band; Coulomb interaction; Dielectric material; Mott Wannier exciton; Organic photovoltaics; Valence band

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884753789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527633418.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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