Ultrasensitive terahertz metamaterial sensor based on vertical split ring resonators

Wei Wang; Fengping Yan; Siyu Tan; Hong Zhou; Yafei Hou

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000571

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 571(2017)

Ultrasensitive terahertz metamaterial sensor based on vertical split ring resonators

Wei Wang¹, Fengping Yan^1、*, Siyu Tan¹, Hong Zhou², and Yafei Hou³

¹Key Laboratory of All Optical Network & Advanced Telecommunication of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

²Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan

³Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita Ward, Okayama Prefecture 700-8530, Japan

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Paper Information

Category: Metamaterials

Received: Jul. 7, 2017

Accepted: Sep. 13, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Fengping Yan (fpyan@bjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000571

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