Ultrabroadband and multiband infrared/terahertz photodetectors with high sensitivity

Jiaqi Zhu; He Zhu; Mengjuan Liu; Yao Wang; Hanlun Xu; Nasir Ali; Huiyong Deng; Zhiyong Tan; Juncheng Cao; Ning Dai; Huizhen Wu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.430960

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