• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 3, 653 (2022)
Peng Suo1, Shengnan Yan2, Ruihua Pu3, Wenjie Zhang1, Di Li1, Jiaming Chen1, Jibo Fu1, Xian Lin1, Feng Miao2, Shi-Jun Liang2, Weimin Liu3、4, and Guohong Ma1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 3School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 4e-mail: liuwm@shanghaitech.edu.cn
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    Peng Suo, Shengnan Yan, Ruihua Pu, Wenjie Zhang, Di Li, Jiaming Chen, Jibo Fu, Xian Lin, Feng Miao, Shi-Jun Liang, Weimin Liu, Guohong Ma. Ultrafast photocarrier and coherent phonon dynamics in type-II Dirac semimetal PtTe2 thin films probed by optical spectroscopy[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(3): 653 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Peng Suo, Shengnan Yan, Ruihua Pu, Wenjie Zhang, Di Li, Jiaming Chen, Jibo Fu, Xian Lin, Feng Miao, Shi-Jun Liang, Weimin Liu, Guohong Ma. Ultrafast photocarrier and coherent phonon dynamics in type-II Dirac semimetal PtTe2 thin films probed by optical spectroscopy[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(3): 653
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