Excitons in van der Waals heterostructures: The important role of dielectric screening

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 24, 2015, Pages

  Latini, S ^a   Olsen, T ^a   Thygesen, K S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84952315649     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.245123     Document Type: Article

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