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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 5, 053602(2024)

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Hongming Fei^1、*, Min Wu², Han Lin^3、**, Yibiao Yang⁴, and Liantuan Xiao^1、***

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¹College of Physics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

²College of Information Engineering, Shanxi Vocational University of Engineering Science and Technology, Jinzhong 030619, China

³College of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia

⁴College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

Received: Dec. 27, 2023

Accepted: Feb. 5, 2024

Published Online: May. 20, 2024

The Author Email: Hongming Fei (feihongming@tyut.edu.cn), Han Lin (han.lin2@rmit.edu.au), Liantuan Xiao (xiaoliantuan@tyut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.053602

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.053602

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