Magnetically tunable zero-index metamaterials

Yucong Yang; Yueyang Liu; Jun Qin; Songgang Cai; Jiejun Su; Peiheng Zhou; Longjiang Deng; Yang Li; Lei Bi

doi:10.1364/PRJ.495638

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 10, 1613(2023)

Magnetically tunable zero-index metamaterials

Yucong Yang^1,2, Yueyang Liu³, Jun Qin^1,2, Songgang Cai^1,2, Jiejun Su^1,2, Peiheng Zhou^1,2, Longjiang Deng^1,2,4、*, Yang Li^3,5、*, and Lei Bi^1,2,6、*

Author Affiliations

¹National Engineering Research Centre of Electromagnetic Radiation Control Materials, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

²Key Laboratory of Multi-spectral Absorbing Materials and Structures of Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

³State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

⁴e-mail: denglj@uestc.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: yli9003@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: bilei@uestc.edu.cn

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