Broadband metamaterial absorber at midinfrared using multiplexed cross resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 30724-30730

  Ma, Wei ^a   Wen, Yongzheng ^a   Yu, Xiaomei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; DIFFERENT SIZES; GROUND PLANES; METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS; MIDINFRARED; Q-FACTORS; UNIT CELLS;

GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; METAMATERIALS; MULTIPLEXING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84890516549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.030724     Document Type: Article

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