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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 7, 734(2019)

Tunable and scalable broadband metamaterial absorber involving VO₂-based phase transition

Lei Lei^1,4、*, Fei Lou^2,5、*, Keyu Tao¹, Haixuan Huang³, Xin Cheng², and Ping Xu¹

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¹College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

³College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China

⁴e-mail: leilei@szu.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: louf@sustc.edu.cn

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Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Jan. 7, 2019

Accepted: Apr. 30, 2019

Published Online: Jun. 17, 2019

The Author Email: Lei Lei (leilei@szu.edu.cn), Fei Lou (louf@sustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000734

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