Asymmetric light propagation in composition-graded semiconductor nanowires

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xu, Jinyou ^a   Zhuang, Xiujuan ^a   Guo, Pengfei ^a   Huang, Weiqing ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a   Wan, Qiang ^a   Zhu, Xiaoli ^a   Yang, Zongyin ^b   Tong, Limin ^b   Duan, Xiangfeng ^c   Pan, Anlian ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84869153796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00820     Document Type: Article

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