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Vol. 7, Issue 3, 294 (2019)

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Zhiqiang Yang¹, Kang Du¹, Fanfan Lu¹, Yang Pang¹..., Shijia Hua¹, Xuetao Gan¹, Wending Zhang¹, Soo Jin Chua^2,3 and Ting Mei^1,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore

³LEES Program, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Singapore 138602, Singapore

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Zhiqiang Yang, Kang Du, Fanfan Lu, Yang Pang, Shijia Hua, Xuetao Gan, Wending Zhang, Soo Jin Chua, Ting Mei, "Silica nanocone array as a template for fabricating a plasmon induced hot electron photodetector," Photonics Res. 7, 294 (2019) Copy Citation Text

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