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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 113, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.076802
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- Center for Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency through Molecule Scale Control, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001085]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1122594, DMR-1124894]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation within the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship Program
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-AC05-06OR23100]
- NSF [DGE-1069240]
- NSF
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1124894] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We have experimentally determined the energies of the ground and first four excited excitonic states of the fundamental optical transition in monolayer WS2, a model system for the growing class of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductor crystals. From the spectra, we establish a large exciton binding energy of 0.32 eV and a pronounced deviation from the usual hydrogenic Rydberg series of energy levels of the excitonic states. We explain both of these results using a microscopic theory in which the nonlocal nature of the effective dielectric screening modifies the functional form of the Coulomb interaction. These strong but unconventional electron-hole interactions are expected to be ubiquitous in atomically thin materials.
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