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High-efficiency terahertz third harmonic generation from quasi-bound states in the continuum in permittivity-asymmetric hybrid metasurface

Guangcheng Sun, Rui Wu, Yaohe Li, Gengyu Bai, Yongming Zhang, Suguo Chen, Sunchao Huang, Yang Zhao, Jiayong Han, Hui Hu and Yue Wang

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 14

Published online: 19 May 2026
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Inverse design of multiwavelength multifocal metalens based on the tandem neural networks

Yilun Song, Bowei Wu and Mingyu Sun

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 13

Published online: 13 May 2026
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Study of simulation model of diffractive neural network in liquid crystal optical environments

Xu Yang, Li Fang, Bowei Wu and Mingyu Sun

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 12

Published online: 13 May 2026
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Theoretical modeling of the effective elastic constants of a sinusoidal anti-tetra-missing rib auxetic honeycomb

Miao Zhou, Xinxin Wu, Yunjian Cheng and Yilin Zhu

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 11

Published online: 04 March 2026
Special Issue on 'Metamaterials for Novel Wave Phenomena: Theory, Design and Application in Microwaves', edited by Sander Mann and Stefano Vellucci

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HoFeO₃ with Thermo-Softened phonons for 3D-printed terahertz metamaterials

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EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 10

Published online: 04 March 2026
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Terahertz metasurface enabled by barium strontium titanate ferroelectric film

Yuan Fu, Xiaojian Fu and Yunsheng Guo

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 9

Published online: 16 February 2026
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Mirror-stacked tetra-missing rib honeycomb with persistent zero Poisson's ratio

Zheng Li, Zhenya Zhang, Xisheng Deng, Yuanxi Huang, Hui Chen and Yilin Zhu

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 8

Published online: 13 February 2026
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Design and optimisation of a turbofan blade filled with Multi-Poisson’s Ratio Soft–Hard integrated structures

Peijie Sun and Weizhu Yang

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 7

Published online: 11 February 2026

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