Extraordinary second harmonic generation in Tungsten disulfide monolayers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Janisch, Corey ^a,b   Wang, Yuanxi ^b   Ma, Ding ^a   Mehta, Nikhil ^a   Elías, Ana Laura ^b   Perea López, Néstor ^b   Terrones, Mauricio ^b   Crespi, Vincent ^b   Liu, Zhiwen ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84903777350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05530     Document Type: Article

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