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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 4, 519 (2020)

Enhancing sensing capacity of terahertz metamaterial absorbers with a surface-relief design

Wei Wang¹, Fengping Yan^1、*, Siyu Tan², Haisu Li¹, Xuemei Du¹, Luna Zhang¹, Zhuoya Bai¹, Dan Cheng¹, Hong Zhou³, and Yafei Hou⁴

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¹Key Laboratory of All Optical Network & Advanced Telecommunication of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

²Zhengzhou Xinda Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China

³Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka, 535-8585, Japan

⁴Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita Ward, Okayama Prefecture, 700-8530, Japan

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Wei Wang, Fengping Yan, Siyu Tan, Haisu Li, Xuemei Du, Luna Zhang, Zhuoya Bai, Dan Cheng, Hong Zhou, Yafei Hou. Enhancing sensing capacity of terahertz metamaterial absorbers with a surface-relief design[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(4): 519 Copy Citation Text

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