• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 52, Issue 5, 0552201 (2023)
Peizhan LI1,2, Jiaqiang ZHONG1, Wen ZHANG1,*, Zheng WANG1..., Yue GEN1,2, Qijun YAO1, Wei MIAO1, Yuan REN1, Jing LI1 and Shengcai SHI1,**|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    Peizhan LI, Jiaqiang ZHONG, Wen ZHANG, Zheng WANG, Yue GEN, Qijun YAO, Wei MIAO, Yuan REN, Jing LI, Shengcai SHI. High-performance Superconducting Transition-edge Single-photon Detectors(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2023, 52(5): 0552201 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Peizhan LI, Jiaqiang ZHONG, Wen ZHANG, Zheng WANG, Yue GEN, Qijun YAO, Wei MIAO, Yuan REN, Jing LI, Shengcai SHI. High-performance Superconducting Transition-edge Single-photon Detectors(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2023, 52(5): 0552201
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