Optical Relaxation Time Enhancement in Graphene-Passivated Metal Films

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chugh, Sunny ^a   Mehta, Ruchit ^a   Man, Mengren ^a   Chen, Zhihong ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84979745078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30519     Document Type: Article

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