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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 6, 571 (2017)

Ultrasensitive terahertz metamaterial sensor based on vertical split ring resonators

Wei Wang¹, Fengping Yan^1,*, Siyu Tan¹, Hong Zhou², and Yafei Hou³

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

²Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan

³Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita Ward, Okayama Prefecture 700-8530, Japan

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