Excitons in a reconstructed moiré potential in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayers
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Andersen, T. I., Scuri, G., Sushko, A., De Greve, K., Sung, J., Zhou, Y., Wild, D. S., Gelly, R. J., Heo, H., Bérubé, D., Joe, A. Y., Jauregui, L. A., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Kim, P., Park, H., & Lukin, M. D. (2021). Excitons in a reconstructed moiré potential in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayers. Nature Materials, 20(4), 480–487.

Authors 17
  1. Trond I. Andersen (first)
  2. Giovanni Scuri (additional)
  3. Andrey Sushko (additional)
  4. Kristiaan De Greve (additional)
  5. Jiho Sung (additional)
  6. You Zhou (additional)
  7. Dominik S. Wild (additional)
  8. Ryan J. Gelly (additional)
  9. Hoseok Heo (additional)
  10. Damien Bérubé (additional)
  11. Andrew Y. Joe (additional)
  12. Luis A. Jauregui (additional)
  13. Kenji Watanabe (additional)
  14. Takashi Taniguchi (additional)
  15. Philip Kim (additional)
  16. Hongkun Park (additional)
  17. Mikhail D. Lukin (additional)
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