Epitaxial indium antimonide for multiband photodetection from IR to millimeter/terahertz wave

Jinchao Tong; Heng Luo; Fei Suo; Tianning Zhang; Dawei Zhang; Dao Hua Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.444354

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