• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 7, Issue 3, 294 (2019)
Zhiqiang Yang1, Kang Du1, Fanfan Lu1, Yang Pang1..., Shijia Hua1, Xuetao Gan1, Wending Zhang1, Soo Jin Chua2,3 and Ting Mei1,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 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 show less
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