• 文献标题:   Broadband terahertz modulators using self-gated graphene capacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KAKENOV N, BALCI O, POLAT EO, ALTAN H, KOCABAS C
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BOPTICAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0740-3224 EI 1520-8540
  • 通讯作者地址:   Bilkent Univ
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1364/JOSAB.32.001861
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We demonstrate a terahertz intensity modulator using a graphene supercapacitor which consists of two large-area graphene electrodes and an electrolyte medium. The mutual electrolyte gating between the graphene electrodes provides very efficient electrostatic doping with Fermi energies of 1 eV and a charge density of 8 x 10(13) cm(-2). We show that the graphene supercapacitor yields more than 50% modulation between 0.1 and 1.4 THz with operation voltages less than 3 V. The low insertion losses, high modulation depth over a broad spectrum, and the simplicity of the device structure are the key attributes of graphene supercapacitors for THz applications. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America