• 文献标题:   Wide-Band Circularly Polarized ReflectarrayUsing Graphene-Based Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Unit-Cells for Terahertz Communication
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DENG L, ZHANG YY, ZHU JF, ZHANG C
  • 作者关键词:   circularly polarized, pancharatnam berry phase, graphene, metasurface
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1996-1944
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Univ Posts Telecommun
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.3390/ma11060956
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

A wide-band and high gain circularly polarized (CP) graphene-based reflectarray operating in the THz regime is proposed and theoretically investigated in this paper. The proposed reflectarray consists of a THz CP source and several graphene-based unit-cells. Taking advantages of the Pancharatnam Berry (PB) phase principle, the graphene-based unit-cell is capable of realizing a tunable phase range of 360 degrees in a wide-band (1.4-1.7 THz) by unit-cell rotating, overcoming the restriction of intrinsic narrow-band resonance in graphene. Therefore, this graphene-based unit-cell exhibits superior bandwidth and phase tunability to its previous counterparts. To demonstrate this, a wide-band (1.4-1.7 THz) focusing metasurface based on the proposed unit-cell that exhibits excellent focusing effect was designed. Then, according to the reversibility of the optical path, a CP reflectarray was realized by placing a wide-band CP THz source at the focal point of the metasurface. Numerical simulation demonstrates that this reflectarray can achieve a stable high gain up to 15 dBic and an axial ratio around 2.1 dB over the 1.4-1.7 THz band. The good radiation performance of the proposed CP reflectarray, as demonstrated, underlines its suitability for the THz communication applications. Moreover, the design principle of this graphene-based reflectarray with a full 360 degrees phase range tunable unit-cells provides a new pathway to design high-performance CP reflectarray in the THz regime.