Nonvolatile reconfigurable dynamic Janus metasurfaces in the terahertz regime

Shoujun Zhang; Xieyu Chen; Kuan Liu; Haiyang Li; Yuehong Xu; Xiaohan Jiang; Yihan Xu; Qingwei Wang; Tun Cao; Zhen Tian

doi:10.1364/PRJ.456161

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