Polarization-independent all-silicon dielectric metasurfaces in the terahertz regime

Huifang Zhang; Xueqian Zhang; Quan Xu; Qiu Wang; Yuehong Xu; Minggui Wei; Yanfeng Li; Jianqiang Gu; Zhen Tian; Chunmei Ouyang; Xixiang Zhang; Cong Hu; Jiaguang Han; Weili Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000024

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