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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026004 (2023)

Large-scale single-crystal blue phase through holography lithography

Xiaowan Xu, Jiawei Wang, Yanjun Liu, and Dan Luo^*

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Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Shenzhen, China

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