Ultrafast saturable absorption of two-dimensional MoS2 nanosheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 9260-9267

  Wang, Kangpeng ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Fan, Jintai ^a   Lotya, Mustafa ^b   O'Neill, Arlene ^b   Fox, Daniel ^b   Feng, Yanyan ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Jiang, Benxue ^a   Zhao, Quanzhong ^a   Zhang, Hongzhou ^b   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b   Zhang, Long ^a   Blau, Werner Josef ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

2D nanomaterials; MoS2; nonlinear optics; saturable absorption; transition metal dichalcogenides; ultrafast; Z scan

Indexed keywords

MOS2; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; ULTRA-FAST; Z-SCAN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; NANOSHEETS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84887002838     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403886t     Document Type: Article

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