Femtosecond-Laser-Induced All-Silicon Dielectric Metasurfaces Assisted by Wet Chemical Etching

Ioanna Sakellari; Sotiris Droulias; Andreas Lemonis; Emmanuel I. Stratakis

doi:10.34133/ultrafastscience.0019

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