Near-Field Imaging of Nonlinear Optical Mixing in Single Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 279-283

  Johnson, Justin C ^a   Yan, Haoquan ^a   Schaller, Richard D ^a   Petersen, Poul B ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a   Saykally, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000635547     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl015686n     Document Type: Article

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