Metallic photonic crystals for terahertz tunable filters

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-78

  Fan, Fei ^a   Chang, ShengJiang ^a   Hou, Yu ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

filter; liquid crystals; metallic photonic crystals; terahertz

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855220703     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-011-4485-3     Document Type: Article

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