Graphene photonics and optoelectronics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 611-622

  Bonaccorso, F ^a   Sun, Z ^a   Hasan, T ^a   Ferrari, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRAC ELECTRONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; LINEAR DISPERSION; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTONICS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 77956280459     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.186     Document Type: Article

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