Titanium hyperdoped black silicon prepared by femtosecond laser irradiation: first-principle calculations and experimental verification

Song Huang; Anmin Wu; Guanting Song; Jiaxin Cao; Jianghong Yao; Qiang Wu; Weiqing Gao; Jingjun Xu

doi:10.3788/COL202422.113801

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 11, 113801(2024)

Titanium hyperdoped black silicon prepared by femtosecond laser irradiation: first-principle calculations and experimental verification Editors' Pick

Song Huang¹, Anmin Wu¹, Guanting Song², Jiaxin Cao², Jianghong Yao², Qiang Wu^1、*, Weiqing Gao^2、**, and Jingjun Xu²

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¹Department of Optical Engineering, School of Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China

²Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

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Paper Information

Category: Light-matter Interaction

Received: May. 10, 2024

Accepted: Jul. 10, 2024

Published Online: Nov. 28, 2024

The Author Email: Qiang Wu (wuqiang@nankai.edu.cn), Weiqing Gao (gaoweiqing@hfut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.113801

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.113801

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