Design of a photo-excited broadband tunable terahertz absorber

CHENG Yong-Zhi; ZUO Xuan; HUANG Mu-Lin; WANG Tong-Nian; GONG Rong-Zhou

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2019.01.016

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