MEMS-Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Antenna Applications

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MEMS-Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Antenna Applications

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Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Extreme Spatial Dispersion in Nonlocally Resonant Elastic Metamaterials

Ultrabroadband sound control with deep-subwavelength plasmacoustic metalayers

500 GHz field-resolved detection in thin-film lithium niobate devices

Effect of mechanical nonlinearity on the electromagnetic response of a microwave tunable metamaterial

Controlled filamentation instability as a scalable fabrication approach to flexible metamaterials

Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption

Metasurface Near-Field Measurements with Incident Field Reconstruction Using a Single Horn Antenna

Electromagnetic waves under nonstationary conditions, the connection with parity-time symmetry and studies on resonant systems

On the 5G Communications: Fractal-Shaped Antennas for PPDR Applications

Self-induced thermo-optical effects in silicon and germanium dielectric nanoresonators

Helical structures with switchable and hierarchical chirality

Zero Index Metamaterial for High Gain Array

Observation of coupled mechanical resonance modes within suspended 3D nanowire arrays

A Subwavelength Microwave Bandpass Filter Based on a Chiral Waveguide

Active acoustic resonators with reconfigurable resonance frequency, absorption, and bandwidth

Acoustic birefringence via non-Eulerian metamaterials

Robust wave transport at subwavelength scale with chiral metamaterials

Gain enhancement of circular waveguide antennas using near-zero index metamaterials

Non-reciprocal manipulation of subwavelength fields in locally-resonant metamaterial crystals