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Simulation, Fabrication and Characterization of THz Metamaterial Absorbers
Published on: December 27, 2012
Flexible ultrawideband microwave metamaterial absorber with multiple perfect absorption peaks based on the split
Applied Optics
|May 3, 2019
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This publisher's note amends the author listing in Appl. Opt.57, 10257 (2018)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.57.010257.
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