• 文献标题:   Controlling enhanced absorption in graphene metamaterial
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU QH, LIU P, BIAN LA, LIU HQ, LIU CX, CHEN GH
  • 作者关键词:   metamaterial absorber, controllable, tunable, graphene, terahertz
  • 出版物名称:   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   0030-4018 EI 1873-0310
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Univ Def Technol
  • 被引频次:   15
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.optcom.2017.12.078
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, a controllable terahertz (THz) metamaterial absorber (MA) is designed with the circuit analog method. Taking advantage of the patterned graphene on SiO2/doped Si/polyimide substrates with a gold reflector, the controllable MA achieves perfect absorption at 0.75 THz. The chemical potential of graphene is regulated by controlling the voltage between graphene and doped Si layers. As the chemical potential varies from 0 eV to 0.5 eV, the MA is changed from reflection (<0.37) to absorption (>0.99). The distributions of surface current and electric field are illustrated to analyze the resonant characteristic of patterned graphene. According to the resonant characteristic, we introduce patterned graphene elements with different dimension in a unit cell, which effectively extends the effective absorption bandwidth (absorption > 0.9) from 0.67-0.93 THz to 0.52-0.95 THz. Moreover, replacing part of the graphene structure with gold, the switchable MA is turned into a frequency tunable MA. The absorption peak moves from 0.62 THz to 0.92 THz as the chemical potential increases from 0.1 eV to 0.5 eV. These designs overcome limitation of traditional absorbers and exhibit great potentials in many practical applications. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.