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. 2019 Mar 11;9:4097. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40791-4

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Metamaterial unit cells exhibiting symmetric and asymmetric transmission. (a) A unit cell with two identical metallic square rings on both sides of a dielectric spacer, where the two square rings are aligned along the z direction, transmits electromagnetic waves symmetrically. (b,c) Illumination of (b) front and (c) back of the unit cell for the proposed asymmetric transmission metamaterial composed of two 90°-twisted structurally identical SRRs separated by a dielectric spacer^19,20. Illumination of the back of the sample is achieved by rotating the sample by 180° around the y axis. (d) Illustration of the asymmetric transmission metamaterial’s axis of twofold rotational symmetry y'.