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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 604(2017)

Actively controllable terahertz switches with graphene-based nongroove gratings

Linbao Luo¹, Kuiyuan Wang¹, Caiwang Ge¹, Kai Guo², Fei Shen², Zhiping Yin^1,2, and Zhongyi Guo^2、*

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¹School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

²School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Plasmons

Received: Jul. 3, 2017

Accepted: Aug. 26, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Zhongyi Guo (guozhongyi@hfut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000604

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