Fig. 1 | Illustration of bound state in the continuum (BIC), regular bound state, resonance state and finite barrier bound state. (IMAGE)

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Fig. 1 | Illustration of bound state in the continuum (BIC), regular bound state, resonance state and finite barrier bound state.

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Counterintuitively, as insets IV and V show, a state gets trapped completely by a band gap material with a finite and very small thickness.

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by Tao Liu, Kai Bai, Yicheng Zhang, Duanduan Wan, Yun Lai, C.T. Chan, and Meng Xiao

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