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Photonics Research, Volume. 3, Issue 3, A87(2015)

Flexible, robust and highly efficient broadband nonlinear optical materials based on graphene oxide impregnated polymer sheets

Xiao-Fang Jiang1...2,3,4, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu2, Hai Zhu2,3, Rizhao Ma2, and Qing-Hua Xu23,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices (SKLLMD), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • 2Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
  • 3NUSNNI-NanoCore, National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore
  • 4e-mail: msxfjiang@scut.edu.cn
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    Xiao-Fang Jiang, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Hai Zhu, Rizhao Ma, Qing-Hua Xu, "Flexible, robust and highly efficient broadband nonlinear optical materials based on graphene oxide impregnated polymer sheets," Photonics Res. 3, A87 (2015)

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    Special Issue: PHOTONICS BASED ON TWO DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS

    Received: Jan. 8, 2015

    Accepted: Mar. 11, 2015

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2019

    The Author Email: Qing-Hua Xu (chmxqh@nus.edu.sg)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.3.000A87

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