Impact of resonator rotational symmetry on infrared metamaterial absorber

NI Bo; CHEN Xiao-Shuang; ZHANG Yang; HUANG Lu-Jun; DING Jia-Yi; LI Guan-Hai; LU Wei

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2014.00380

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