Progress in LPE Growth of HgCdTe at Kunming Institute of Physics

Jincheng KONG; Linwei SONG; Wenbin QI; Jun JIANG; Shuren CONG; Yan LIU; Huiyu RONG; Jiangming XU; Dong FANG; Peng ZHAO; Rongbin JI

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