Gigantic optical nonlinearity in one-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulators

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 929-930

  Kishida, H ^a   Matsuzaki, H ^a   Okamoto, H ^a,b   Manabe, T ^c   Yamashita, M ^d,e   Taguchi, Y ^a   Tokura, Y ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^f JT RES CENTER FOR ATOM TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALIDE; METAL OXIDE; POLYMER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIPOLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REFLECTOMETRY; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034702286     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016036     Document Type: Article

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