All-optical control of ultrafast photocurrents in unbiased graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Obraztsov, Petr A ^a,b   Kaplas, Tommi ^b   Garnov, Sergey V ^a   Kuwata Gonokami, Makoto ^c   Obraztsov, Alexander N ^b,d   Svirko, Yuri P ^b  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84893830382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04007     Document Type: Article

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