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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 8, 782(2018)

High-efficiency broadband polarization-independent superscatterer using conformal metasurfaces

He-Xiu Xu^1、*, Shiwei Tang^2,7, Chen Sun¹, Lianlin Li³, Haiwen Liu⁴, Xinmi Yang⁵, Fang Yuan¹, and Yunming Sun⁶

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¹Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China

²Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

³School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁴School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China

⁵School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

⁶Advanced Technique Department, Key Laboratory of Aeronautics Computing Technique, Xi’an 710175, China

⁷e-mail: tangshiwei@nbu.edu.cn

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Category: Metamaterials

Received: Mar. 28, 2018

Accepted: Jun. 7, 2018

Published Online: Aug. 1, 2018

The Author Email: He-Xiu Xu (hxxuellen@gmail.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000782

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