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Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions

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In Chap. 8 we defined the bandstructure for electrons and holes as the solutions to the (N ± 1)-particle problem and later we saw that the number of electrons in a band can be increased or decreased by donors and acceptors, respectively (Sect. 8.14).

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Klingshirn, C.F. (2012). Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions. In: Semiconductor Optics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28362-8_9

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