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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 6, 630 (2018)

Electric field tunable strong transverse light current from nanoparticles embedded in liquid crystal

Jinhua Li and Xiangdong Zhang^*

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Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics & Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

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