Terahertz radiation of a butterfly-shaped photoconductive antenna(invited)

Jitao Zhang; Mingguang Tuo; Min Liang; Wei-Ren Ng; Michael E. Gehm; Hao Xin

doi:10.3788/irla201948.0402001

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