High responsivity of terahertz detector based on ultra-thin LiTaO3 crystal material

LIANG Zhi-Qing; LIU Zi-Ji; JIANG Ya-Dong; ZHENG Xing; WANG Tao; YU He

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2016.05.002

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