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Photonics Research
Vol. 9, Issue 3, 370 (2021)

Terahertz wave avalanche breakdown transistor for high-performance switching

Weijun Wang^{1、2、3、†}, Liang-Hui Du^2、4、†, Jiang Li^2、4, Pei-Ren Tang², Changlin Sun², Songlin Chen³, Jun Wang⁵, Zhao-Hui Zhai^2、4, Zhipeng Gao², Ze-Ren Li^2、4, Jianquan Yao⁶, Furi Ling^1、3、7, and Li-Guo Zhu^2、4、*

Author Affiliations

¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China

³School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

⁴Microsystem & Terahertz Research Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Chengdu 610200, China

⁵School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

⁶College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

⁷e-mail: lingfuri@hust.edu.cn

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Weijun Wang, Liang-Hui Du, Jiang Li, Pei-Ren Tang, Changlin Sun, Songlin Chen, Jun Wang, Zhao-Hui Zhai, Zhipeng Gao, Ze-Ren Li, Jianquan Yao, Furi Ling, Li-Guo Zhu. Terahertz wave avalanche breakdown transistor for high-performance switching[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(3): 370 Copy Citation Text

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