• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 23, Issue 4, 043603 (2025)
Abdul Jalal1,2, Yan Dong1,2, Bowen Deng1,2, Muhammad Qasim1,2..., Mojtaba Moghaddasi1,2, Ubaid Ur Rahman Qureshi1,2, Zongyuan Wang1,2, Xudong Wu1,2, Chenjie Xiong1,2 and Bin Hu1,2,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1National Key Laboratory on Near-surface Detection, Beijing 100072, China
  • 2School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    Abdul Jalal, Yan Dong, Bowen Deng, Muhammad Qasim, Mojtaba Moghaddasi, Ubaid Ur Rahman Qureshi, Zongyuan Wang, Xudong Wu, Chenjie Xiong, Bin Hu, "Bending-switchable terahertz metamaterial with a single layer based on laser-induced graphene," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 043603 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less
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    Abdul Jalal, Yan Dong, Bowen Deng, Muhammad Qasim, Mojtaba Moghaddasi, Ubaid Ur Rahman Qureshi, Zongyuan Wang, Xudong Wu, Chenjie Xiong, Bin Hu, "Bending-switchable terahertz metamaterial with a single layer based on laser-induced graphene," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 043603 (2025)
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