Ultra-wideband microwave absorber by connecting multiple absorption bands of two different-sized hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide arrays.
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SUBMITTER: Yin X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4609997 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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