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Solvent-stabilized few-layer violet phosphorus and its ultrafast nonlinear optics

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Featured with high thermal decomposition temperature and layered structure, violet phosphorus (VP) offers an unparalleled stable allotrope of phosphorus to demonstrate the optoelectronic device and photonics elements with high performance at the nanoscale. Here, we report few-layer and hundreds of nanometer-sized VP with robust stability in different solvents and ambient conditions by ultrasound-assisted liquid phase exfoliation approach. For the first time, the ultrafast carrier dynamics and third-order nonlinear optical response of VP were investigated. Sub-picosecond timescale ultrafast carrier dynamic and ultrafast nonlinear saturable absorption of VP were demonstrated. Our findings demonstrated that VP possessed a promising potential for use in ultrafast nonlinear photonic applications such as saturable absorbers and optical switches.

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The authors are grateful for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61874141, 62275275, and 11904239), the Nature Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Nos. 2021JJ40709 and 2022JJ20080), the High Performance Computing Center of Central South University, and the Open Sharing Found for the Large-scale Instruments and Equipment of Central South University.

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    Li Zhou, Jianlong Kang, Yiduo Wang, Yejun Li, Han Huang, Si Xiao, Yingwei Wang & Jun He

  2. Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Statistical Learning and Intelligent Computation, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha, 410205, China

    Yulan Dong

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Zhou, L., Kang, J., Dong, Y. et al. Solvent-stabilized few-layer violet phosphorus and its ultrafast nonlinear optics. Nano Res. 16, 5843–5849 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5224-3

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