Giant Rydberg excitons in the copper oxide Cu2O

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7522, 2014, Pages 343-347

  Kazimierczuk, T ^a   Frohlich D ^a   Scheel, S ^b   Stolz, H ^b   Bayer, M ^a,c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE; HYDROGEN;

COPPER; ELECTRON; HYDROGEN; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL; DIPOLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; EXCITATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PHONON; PHOTON; REFRACTION INDEX; RYDBERG ATOM; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; THICKNESS;

EID: 84908123487     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13832     Document Type: Article

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