Active spintronic-metasurface terahertz emitters with tunable chirality

Changqin Liu; Shunjia Wang; Sheng Zhang; Qingnan Cai; Peng Wang; Chuanshan Tian; Lei Zhou; Yizheng Wu; Zhensheng Tao

doi:10.1117/1.AP.3.5.056002

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