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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 2, 021601 (2025)

Optical modulation of photoluminescence in carbon quantum dots using diarylethene molecular photoswitches [Invited]

Kezhou Chen^1,2, Xiangyu Meng^1,2, Qingxin Luan^1,2, Bo Albinsson^3,**..., Lili Hou^1,2,3,* and Tiegen Liu^1,2,***|Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Information Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

³Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 41296, Sweden

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Kezhou Chen, Xiangyu Meng, Qingxin Luan, Bo Albinsson, Lili Hou, Tiegen Liu, "Optical modulation of photoluminescence in carbon quantum dots using diarylethene molecular photoswitches [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 021601 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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Kezhou Chen, Xiangyu Meng, Qingxin Luan, Bo Albinsson, Lili Hou, Tiegen Liu, "Optical modulation of photoluminescence in carbon quantum dots using diarylethene molecular photoswitches [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 021601 (2025)

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