Negative refraction of ultra-squeezed in-plane hyperbolic designer polaritons

Qiaolu Chen; Yihao Yang; Li Zhang; Jialin Chen; Min Li; Xiao Lin; Rujiang Li; Zuojia Wang; Baile Zhang; Hongsheng Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.424739

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