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Nature Photonics 2, 267 - 268 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.58

Metamaterials: A tunable terahertz response

Daniel Mittleman1

  1. Daniel Mittleman is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, MS-366, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
    e-mail: daniel@rice.edu


The ability to tune the resonant frequency of a metamaterial in the terahertz region will help to overcome some of the limitations of customary designs demonstrated so far. The result could be a new breed of active, frequency-agile devices that are controlled by light.

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