Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 1, 013602(2023)
Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films
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Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang, Tingyin Ning, "Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 013602 (2023)
Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
Received: Jun. 14, 2022
Accepted: Aug. 10, 2022
Posted: Aug. 11, 2022
Published Online: Sep. 8, 2022
The Author Email: Shuyun Wang (wangsy@sdnu.edu.cn), Tingyin Ning (ningtingyin@sdnu.edu.cn)