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This work is about the measurement of the electronic band gap of hexagonal boron nitride by scanning tunneling spectroscopy and its relation to luminescence measurements from the excitonic emission and defect related emissions. We could determine the exciton binding energy, that is, the energy of the bounding between electrons and holes in h-BN, and its value is 0.7 eV, which is much higher than usual semiconductors.
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The exciton binding energy determines to great extent the quantum efficiency of light emitting materials and this is the first measurement of this kind.
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This page is a summary of: Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects, 2D Materials, July 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ac0d9c.
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