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A terahertz modulator

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Tiny metal resonators can be used to create a material with tunable responses to an applied voltage. Combined with a semiconductor substrate, they can be used to control technologically promising terahertz radiation.

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Figure 1: Chen and colleagues' resonant metamaterial modulator1.

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