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Graphene–silicon fusion

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A single sheet of graphene dramatically changes the nonlinear response of a silicon photonic crystal, enabling ultralow-power optical bistability, self-induced regenerative oscillation and coherent four-wave mixing.

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Figure 1: Double-well model of excitation-dependent nonlinear optical phenomena in a graphene–silicon hybrid system.

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  1. Kinam Kim, Seong-Ho Cho and Chang-Won Lee are at Samsung Electronics, San 14, Nongseo-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-712, Korea,

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Kim, K., Cho, SH. & Lee, CW. Graphene–silicon fusion. Nature Photon 6, 502–503 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.177

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