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Excitons

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The 2D nature of mono- and few-layer TMDCs plays a very important role in exciton behaviour. The extraordinary large exciton binding energy in 2D TMDCs forms a platform for both fundamental studies and novel applications. Various aspects of 2D excitons in TMDCs are described in this Chapter.

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Notes

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    Note that the authors of the original paper use notations that are different from the A, B, and C excitons used in other publications

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