Design and imaging demonstrations of a terahertz quasi-optical Schottky diode detector

LI Ming-Xun; MOU Jin-Chao; GUO Da-Lu; QIAO Hai-Dong; MA Zhao-Hui; LYU Xin

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.06.014

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