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Nanoscale characterization of photonic metasurface made of lens-like SiGe Mie-resonators formed on Si (100) substrate. / Poborchii, Vladimir; Shklyaev, Alexander; Bolotov, Leonid et al.

In: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, No. 12, 123102, 28.09.2019.

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Poborchii V, Shklyaev A, Bolotov L, Uchida N. Nanoscale characterization of photonic metasurface made of lens-like SiGe Mie-resonators formed on Si (100) substrate. Journal of Applied Physics. 2019 Sept 28;126(12):123102. doi: 10.1063/1.5103179

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Poborchii, Vladimir ; Shklyaev, Alexander ; Bolotov, Leonid et al. / Nanoscale characterization of photonic metasurface made of lens-like SiGe Mie-resonators formed on Si (100) substrate. In: Journal of Applied Physics. 2019 ; Vol. 126, No. 12.

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