Normal-incidence, high-temperature, mid-infrared, inAs-GaAs vertical quantum-dot infrared photodetector

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1412-1419

  Stiff, Adrienne D ^a   Krishna, Sanjay ^a   Bhattacharya, Pallab ^a   Kennerly, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0041971221     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.958360     Document Type: Article

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