Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 52, Issue 10, 1052405(2023)

Mid Wavelength Interband Cascade Photodetector with Type Ⅱ Superlattice Absorber(Invited)

Ting XUE1,2, Jianliang HUANG1,2、*, Shaolong YAN1,2, Yanhua ZHANG1,2, and Wenquan MA1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science,Institute of Semiconductors,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100083,China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Opto-electronic Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
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    Ting XUE, Jianliang HUANG, Shaolong YAN, Yanhua ZHANG, Wenquan MA. Mid Wavelength Interband Cascade Photodetector with Type Ⅱ Superlattice Absorber(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2023, 52(10): 1052405

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    Received: Jun. 28, 2023

    Accepted: Aug. 25, 2023

    Published Online: Dec. 5, 2023

    The Author Email: Jianliang HUANG (jlhuang@semi.ac.cn), Wenquan MA (wqma@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20235210.1052405

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