Microscopic pump-probe optical technique to characterize the defect of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Ying Yu; Xiankun Zhang; Zhangkai Zhou; Zheng Zhang; Yanjun Bao; Haofei Xu; Limin Lin; Yue Zhang; Xuehua Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000711

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