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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 3, 220(2018)

Optical properties and applications for MoS2-Sb2Te3-MoS2 heterostructure materials

Wenjun Liu1,2、†, Ya-Nan Zhu3、†, Mengli Liu1, Bo Wen3, Shaobo Fang2, Hao Teng2, Ming Lei1,5, Li-Min Liu3,4,6, and Zhiyi Wei2、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China
  • 4School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
  • 5e-mail: mlei@bupt.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: limin.liu@csrc.ac.cn
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    Category: Materials

    Received: Nov. 20, 2017

    Accepted: Jan. 18, 2018

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

    The Author Email: Zhiyi Wei (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000220

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