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    Journals >Photonics Research >Volume 7 >Issue 12 >Page 1493 > Article
    • Photonics Research
    • Vol. 7, Issue 12, 1493 (2019)
    Third-order nonlinear optical properties of WTe2 films synthesized by pulsed laser deposition
    Mi He1, Yequan Chen2, Lipeng Zhu3, Huan Wang1..., Xuefeng Wang2,4,*, Xinlong Xu1 and Zhanyu Ren1,5,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene, State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials, International Collaborative Center on Photoelectric Technology and Nano Functional Materials, Institute of Photonics & Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
  • 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 3School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • 4e-mail: xfwang@nju.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: rzy@nwu.edu.cn
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