Fabrication and optical properties of efficient multiband absorbers based on one-dimensional periodic metal-dielectric multilayers

Li Hui; Ji Ting; Wang Yanshan; Wang Wenyan; Hao Yuying; Cui Yanxia

doi:10.3788/irla201948.0203004

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