Structural design of long wavelength interband cascade photodetectors

TIAN Yuan; ZHOU Yi; CHAI Xu-Liang; XU Zhi-Cheng; CHEN Jian-Xin; HE Li

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.06.017

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