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An angular dispersion-free resonant metasurface for quantum photon pair generation

Shuhao Wu, Vincenzo Pusino and David R.S. Cumming

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 2

Published online: 22 January 2026
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AI-driven approaches in electromagnetic metamaterials design and application: a review

Haoyang Yu, Zixuan Liu, Rui Hou and Zidong Zhang

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 7

Published online: 22 December 2025
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Epsilon-near-zero ITO/Ag/SiO₂ metamaterial for large nonlinear absorption

Jiannan Dong, Zongling Lang, Zhongyang Wang, Shuqiang Xiong, Hao Luan, Yihang Chen and Tongxiang Fan

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 6

Published online: 22 December 2025
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Vibration attenuation using a 3D cubic re-entrant metamaterial structure with tunable bandgaps induced by variations in the re-entrant angle

Musa Abubakar, Huaitao Shi, Xiaotian Bai, Tianzhi Yang, Ke Zhang and Xianming Sun

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 5

Published online: 17 December 2025
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Optimisation and precision tuning of localised surface plasmon resonance in AuFON systems

Luis Alfonso Guerra Hernández, Osmar Gil Salas, Jorge Enrique Rueda Parada, Alejandro Fainstein and Andrés Alejandro Reynoso

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 4

Published online: 14 November 2025
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Study on transmission and scattering characteristics of conformal double layer frequency selective surface

Miao Yu, Jianbo Wang and Nianxi Xu

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 3

Published online: 16 September 2025
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MXene/PVDF metacomposites with ultra-high and negative permittivity

Wei Li, Fei Lv and Qing Hou

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 2

Published online: 14 July 2025
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TE-wave propagation in a hollow circular waveguide filled with a graded multilayered dielectric medium

Balwan Rana and Mariana Dalarsson

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 12 (2025) 1

Published online: 14 July 2025

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