Terahertz chiral edge states enable inner-chip state transition and interchip communications over wireless terminals

Hong Chen; Hang Ren; Wenya Wang; Zhaohua Xu; Yanfeng Li; Quan Xu; Jiaguang Han; Su Xu

doi:10.3788/COL202422.103701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 10, 103701(2024)

Terahertz chiral edge states enable inner-chip state transition and interchip communications over wireless terminals

Hong Chen1... Hang Ren1, Wenya Wang1, Zhaohua Xu1, Yanfeng Li2, Quan Xu2, Jiaguang Han2 and Su Xu1,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

²Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

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