Recent advances in photonics of three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

Renlong Zhou; Kaleem Ullah; Naveed Hussain; Mohammed M. Fadhali; Sa Yang; Qiawu Lin; Muhammad Zubair; Muhammad Faisal Iqbal

doi:10.1117/1.APN.1.2.024001

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