• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 1, 0151107 (2022)
Lei SUN* and Guoping WANG
Author Affiliations
  • Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics,Shenzhen University,Shenzhen,Guangdong 518060,China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225101.0151107 Cite this Article
    Lei SUN, Guoping WANG. Broadband Epsilon-near-zero Metamaterials and Its Application in Optical Field Manipulation(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(1): 0151107 Copy Citation Text show less
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