A prototype photon detector based on interband transition of quantum wells

LIU Jie; WANG Lu; JIANG Yang; MA Zi-Guang; WANG Wen-Qi; SUN Ling; JIA Hai-Qiang; WANG Wen-Xin; CHEN Hong

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2017.02.001

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