• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 4, Issue 3, 0A16 (2016)
Xiaoguang Zhao1, Jingdi Zhang2, Kebin Fan1, Guangwu Duan1, Grace D. Metcalfe3, Michael Wraback3, Xin Zhang1、*, and Richard D. Averitt2、4
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 110 Cummington Mall, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093, USA
  • 3Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA
  • 4e-mail: raveritt@ucsd.edu
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    Xiaoguang Zhao, Jingdi Zhang, Kebin Fan, Guangwu Duan, Grace D. Metcalfe, Michael Wraback, Xin Zhang, Richard D. Averitt. Nonlinear terahertz metamaterial perfect absorbers using GaAs [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(3): 0A16 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Xiaoguang Zhao, Jingdi Zhang, Kebin Fan, Guangwu Duan, Grace D. Metcalfe, Michael Wraback, Xin Zhang, Richard D. Averitt. Nonlinear terahertz metamaterial perfect absorbers using GaAs [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(3): 0A16
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