Dual photopatterning of rotational fingerprint superstructures

Jintao Pan; Jiaxin Qian; Lingling Ma; Zeyu Wang; Ren Zheng; Ning Wang; Bingxiang Li; Yanqing Lu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.041603

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 4, 041603(2023)

Dual photopatterning of rotational fingerprint superstructures

Jintao Pan¹, Jiaxin Qian¹, Lingling Ma^1、*, Zeyu Wang¹, Ren Zheng¹, Ning Wang¹, Bingxiang Li^2、**, and Yanqing Lu^1、***

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

²College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Materials

Received: Nov. 29, 2022

Accepted: Jan. 3, 2023

Posted: Jan. 6, 2023

Published Online: Feb. 24, 2023

The Author Email: Lingling Ma (malingling@nju.edu.cn), Bingxiang Li (bxli@njupt.edu.cn), Yanqing Lu (yqlu@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.041603

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