Experimental demonstration of a transparent graphene millimetre wave absorber with 28% fractional bandwidth at 140 GHz

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Bian ^a,c   Tuncer, Hatice M ^b   Naeem, Majid ^a   Yang, Bin ^a,d   Cole, Matthew T ^b   Milne, William I ^b   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84894526742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04130     Document Type: Article

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