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Black phosphorus (BP), a layered van der Waals (vdW) crystal, has unique in-plane band anisotropy and many resulting anisotropy properties such as the effective mass, electron mobility, optical absorption, thermal conductivity and plasmonic…
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We present a monolayer black phosphorus (BP)-based metamaterial structure for tunable anisotropic absorption in the mid-infrared. Based on the critical coupling mechanism of guided resonance, the structure realizes the high absorption…
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