Terahertz chiral metamaterials with giant and dynamically tunable optical activity
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Jiangfeng Zhou,1,* Dibakar Roy Chowdhury,1 Rongkuo Zhao,2 Abul K. Azad,1 Hou-Tong Chen,1,† Costas M. Soukoulis,2 Antoinette J. Taylor,1 and John F. O’Hara1,‡ 1Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 2Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA (Received 20 February 2012; published 27 July 2012)
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