Nature Astronomy

Single photon detection of 1.5 THz radiation with the quantum capacitance detector

P. M. Echternach, Brian J. Pepper, Theodore Reck, Charles Mathias Bradford

Published Nov 2, 2017• 102 citations

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DOI: 10.1038/s41550-017-0294-y

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