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Yaoran Zhang; Hao Hu; Francisco José García-Vidal; Jingjing Zhang; Liangliang Liu; Yu Luo; Zhuo Li

doi:10.1117/1.APN.3.5.056004

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 5, 056004(2024)

Reconfigurable exceptional point-based sensing with 0.001 $λ$ sensitivity using spoof localized surface plasmons

Yaoran Zhang1,†... Hao Hu1, Francisco José García-Vidal2, Jingjing Zhang3, Liangliang Liu1,*, Yu Luo1,4,* and Zhuo Li1,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, National Key Laboratory of Microwave Photonics, Nanjing, China

²Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center, Madrid, Spain

³Southeast University, State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Nanjing, China

⁴Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore

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