Carbon-based ultrabroadband tunable terahertz metasurface absorber

Aiqiang Nie; Xiaoyong He; Wenhan Cao

doi:10.1117/1.APN.3.1.016007

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 016007(2024)

Carbon-based ultrabroadband tunable terahertz metasurface absorber Editors' Pick

Aiqiang Nie¹, Xiaoyong He^2、*, and Wenhan Cao^1,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹ShanghaiTech University, School of Information Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

²Shanghai Normal University, Mathematics and Science College, Department of Physics, Shanghai, China

³Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Energy Efficient and Custom AI IC, Shanghai, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Oct. 30, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 11, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 11, 2024

The Author Email: Xiaoyong He (xyhethz@hotmail.com), Wenhan Cao (whcao@shanghaitech.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.3.1.016007

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.3.1.016007

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