The working mechanism of the double excited states in the very long wavelength quantum well infrared detector

LIU Xi-Hui; ZHOU Xiao-Hao; WANG Lu; SUN Qing-Ling; LIAO Kai-Sheng; HUANG Liang; LI Zhi-Feng; LI Ning

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2015.00014

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