Surface plasmon assisted high-performance photodetectors based on hybrid TiO2@GaOxNy-Ag heterostructure

Jiajia Tao; Guang Zeng; Xiaoxi Li; Yang Gu; Wenjun Liu; David Wei Zhang; Hongliang Lu

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/44/7/072806

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