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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 036001(2025)

Exploring uncharted multiband hyperbolic dispersion in conjugated polymers: a first-principles study

Suim Lim1...2, Dong Hee Park3, Bin Chan Joo3, Yeon Ui Lee3,* and Kanghoon Yim1,* |Show fewer author(s)

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¹Korea Institute of Energy Research, Energy AI and Computational Science Laboratory, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

²Sogang University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³Chungbuk National University, Department of Physics, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Jul. 17, 2024

Accepted: Feb. 18, 2025

Posted: Feb. 18, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 14, 2025

The Author Email: Lee Yeon Ui (yeonuilee@cbnu.ac.kr), Yim Kanghoon (khyim@kier.re.kr)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.7.3.036001

CSTR:32187.14.1.AP.7.3.036001

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