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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 1, Issue 2, 024001(2022)

Recent advances in photonics of three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd₃As₂

Renlong Zhou¹, Kaleem Ullah², Naveed Hussain³, Mohammed M. Fadhali^4,5, Sa Yang¹, Qiawu Lin¹, Muhammad Zubair⁶, and Muhammad Faisal Iqbal^7,8、*

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¹Guangdong University of Education, School of Physics and Information Engineering, Guangzhou, China

²University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Newark, Delaware, United States

³University of California, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Irvine, California, United States

⁴Jazan University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

⁵Ibb University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Ibb, Yemen

⁶Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Materials Synthesis and Processing (IEK-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

⁷University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Hefei, China

⁸Riphah International University Faisalabad, Department of Physics, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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Renlong Zhou, Kaleem Ullah, Naveed Hussain, Mohammed M. Fadhali, Sa Yang, Qiawu Lin, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Faisal Iqbal, "Recent advances in photonics of three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd₃As₂," Adv. Photon. Nexus 1, 024001 (2022)

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Category: Reviews

Received: Jul. 20, 2022

Accepted: Oct. 10, 2022

Published Online: Nov. 15, 2022

The Author Email: Muhammad Faisal Iqbal (iqbal@mail.ustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.1.2.024001

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

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