• 文献标题:   Evaluation of a graphene-covered dielectric microtube as a refractive-index sensor in the terahertz range
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VELICHKO EA
  • 作者关键词:   terahertz wave, scattering, graphene, plasmon, sensitivity, figure of merit
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF OPTICS
  • ISSN:   2040-8978 EI 2040-8986
  • 通讯作者地址:   NASU
  • 被引频次:   15
  • DOI:   10.1088/2040-8978/18/3/035008
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

We studied the scattering and absorption of the H-polarized plane wave by a graphene-covered circular dielectric cylinder and a hollow tube with a graphene cover on the outer boundary in the terahertz range. The analytical solution of the wave-scattering problem was based on the Maxwell equations and the use of the separation of variables in the polar coordinates. We assumed the resistive boundary conditions on the zero-thickness graphene cover where the graphene electron conductivity was included as a parameter and was determined from the Kubo formalism. The computed spectra of the total scattering cross section and the absorption cross section displayed several types of resonances: the localized-surface-plasmon (LSP) resonances of the graphene cover and the resonances on the whispering-gallery modes of a dielectric cylinder or dielectric tube. The computed data can be useful for the design of graphene-based sensors of the changes in the refractive index of the host medium. For this purpose, the sensitivities and the figure-of-merit values of the LSP resonances were computed; their comparison demonstrated advantages of a thin-tube configuration.