Linear Scaling of the Exciton Binding Energy versus the Band Gap of Two-Dimensional Materials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Choi, Jin Ho ^a,b   Cui, Ping ^a,b   Lan, Haiping ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GRAPHENE; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; EXCITONIC PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LAYERED MATERIAL; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; STRAINED GRAPHENE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 84939497797     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.066403     Document Type: Article

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