Exciton-dominated optical response of ultra-narrow graphene nanoribbons
10.1038/ncomms5253
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Denk, R., Hohage, M., Zeppenfeld, P., Cai, J., Pignedoli, C. A., Söde, H., Fasel, R., Feng, X., Müllen, K., Wang, S., Prezzi, D., Ferretti, A., Ruini, A., Molinari, E., & Ruffieux, P. (2014). Exciton-dominated optical response of ultra-narrow graphene nanoribbons. Nature Communications, 5(1).

Authors 15
  1. Richard Denk (first)
  2. Michael Hohage (additional)
  3. Peter Zeppenfeld (additional)
  4. Jinming Cai (additional)
  5. Carlo A. Pignedoli (additional)
  6. Hajo Söde (additional)
  7. Roman Fasel (additional)
  8. Xinliang Feng (additional)
  9. Klaus Müllen (additional)
  10. Shudong Wang (additional)
  11. Deborah Prezzi (additional)
  12. Andrea Ferretti (additional)
  13. Alice Ruini (additional)
  14. Elisa Molinari (additional)
  15. Pascal Ruffieux (additional)
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