General strategy for ultrabroadband and wide-angle absorbers via multidimensional design of functional motifs

Qi Yuan; Cuilian Xu; Jinming Jiang; Yongfeng Li; Yang Cheng; He Wang; Mingbao Yan; Jiafu Wang; Hua Ma; Shaobo Qu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.467612

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