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VAN DER WAALS HETEROSTRUCTURES

Rydberg spectroscopy of indirect excitons

Measuring the 1sā€“2p splitting of direct and indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures allows their binding energy and dynamics to be determined.

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Fig. 1: Excitonic transitions in heterostructures.

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Cundiff, S.T. Rydberg spectroscopy of indirect excitons. Nat. Mater. 18, 658ā€“659 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0410-8

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