• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2207 (2024)
Shi-Tong Xu1,2,3,*, Junxing Fan2,4,*, Zhanqiang Xue2, Tong Sun1..., Guoming Li1, Jiandi Li1, Dan Lu2 and Longqing Cong2,5,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Polarization and Information Technology, School of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
  • 2Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 3e-mail: xustonenk@163.com
  • 4e-mail: fanjx@sustech.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: conglq@sustech.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.531952 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Shi-Tong Xu, Junxing Fan, Zhanqiang Xue, Tong Sun, Guoming Li, Jiandi Li, Dan Lu, Longqing Cong, "Active control of terahertz quasi-BIC and asymmetric transmission in a liquid-crystal-integrated metasurface," Photonics Res. 12, 2207 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less
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    Shi-Tong Xu, Junxing Fan, Zhanqiang Xue, Tong Sun, Guoming Li, Jiandi Li, Dan Lu, Longqing Cong, "Active control of terahertz quasi-BIC and asymmetric transmission in a liquid-crystal-integrated metasurface," Photonics Res. 12, 2207 (2024)
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