Broadband absorption engineering of hyperbolic metafilm patterns

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ji, Dengxin ^a   Song, Haomin ^a   Zeng, Xie ^a   Hu, Haifeng ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

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EID: 84897437678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04498     Document Type: Article

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