Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 1, 20240211(2025)

Research progress on broad-spectrum infrared/terahertz quantum ratchet detectors (inner cover paper·invited)

Weidong CHU1,2, Peng BAI1,2、*, Ning YANG1,2, Yi WANG3, Shangjie HAN4, Yingxin WANG5, and Ziran ZHAO5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
  • 2National Key Laboratory of Computational Physics, Beijing 100088, China
  • 3School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 4School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 5Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    Weidong CHU, Peng BAI, Ning YANG, Yi WANG, Shangjie HAN, Yingxin WANG, Ziran ZHAO. Research progress on broad-spectrum infrared/terahertz quantum ratchet detectors (inner cover paper·invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2025, 54(1): 20240211

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    Received: May. 16, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 12, 2025

    The Author Email: BAI Peng (bai_peng@iapcm.ac.cn), ZHAO Ziran (zhaozr@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240211

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