Research and development of femtosecond-laser hyperdoped silicon

Zixi Jia; Song Huang; Xiaorong Jin; Ming Yang; Zhandong Chen; Jianghong Yao; Qiang Wu; Jingjun Xu

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-501x.2017.12.002.1

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