Near-field chiral excitation of universal spin-momentum locking transport of edge waves in microwave metamaterials

Zhixia Xu; Jie Chang; Jinye Tong; Daniel F. Sievenpiper; Tie Jun Cui

doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.4.046004

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