Correction: Optical absorption in lateral transition metal dichalcogenide quantum wells A. Aliakbarpour, M. S. Akhoundi Khezrabad, S. Shojaei and S. A. Hashemizadeh-Aghda Eur. Phys. J. B, 95 11 (2022) 185 Published online: 09 November 2022 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/s10051-022-00443-5