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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 7, 815(2019)

Enhancing sensitivity to ambient refractive index with tunable few-layer graphene/hBN nanoribbons

Huan Jiang1,2, Sajid Choudhury2, Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev2, Di Wang2, Ludmila J. Prokopeva2, Peng Xiao3, Yongyuan Jiang1,4,5,6,7, and Alexander V. Kildishev2、*
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
  • 3School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 4Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 5Key Laboratory of Micro-Optics and Photonic Technology of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin 150001, China
  • 6Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 7e-mail: jiangyy@hit.edu.cn
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    Category: Optical Devices

    Received: Apr. 22, 2019

    Accepted: May. 14, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 24, 2019

    The Author Email: Alexander V. Kildishev (kildishev@purdue.edu)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000815

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