The ‘swallow-tailed defect’ in MBE HgCdTe film

Jin YANG; Jin-Cheng KONG; Jian-Yun YU; Yan-Hui LI; Chun-Zhang YANG; Gang QIN; Dong-Sheng LI; Wen LEI; Jun ZHAO; Rong-Bin JI

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2020.06.005

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