%0 Conference Paper %F Oral %T Indirect excitons and electron-phonon interaction in hexagonal boron nitride %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %A Cassabois, Guillaume %F Invité %< sans comité de lecture %Z L2C:16-117 %B ICPS2016 %C Beijing, China %8 2016-08-01 %D 2016 %Z Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Other [cond-mat.other]Conference papers %X I will discuss our recent experiments by two-photon spectroscopy demonstrating that hBN is an indirect bandgap material. I will show that the optical properties of hBN are profoundly determined by phonon-assisted transitions involving either virtual or real excitonic states. I will present our measurements of the exciton binding energy by two-photon excitation, leading to the estimation of 6.08 eV for the single-particle bandgap in hBN. I will also discuss our experimental evidence that transverse optical phonons at the K point of the Brillouin zone assist inter-K valley scattering in hexagonal boron nitride. %G English %L hal-01358453 %U https://hal.science/hal-01358453 %~ CNRS %~ L2C %~ MIPS %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM-2015-2021