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Periodic structures with subwavelength features are instrumental in the versatile and effective control of electromagnetic waves from radio frequencies up to optics. In this paper, we theoretically evaluate the potential applications and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Arya Fallahi , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

Terahertz technology has made significant advances in the fields of spectroscopy, imaging and, more recently, wireless communications. In the latter, the use of this frequency band between 0.1 and 10 THz becomes extremely attractive due to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Sergi Abadal , Seyed E. Hosseininejad , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Eduard Alarcón

The nonlinear responses of different materials provide useful mechanisms for optical switching, low noise amplification, and harmonic frequency generation. However, the nonlinear processes usually have an extremely weak nature and require…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-24 Boyuan Jin , Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Optical modulators are essential parts of photonic circuits to encode electro-optical signals to the optical domain. Here, using arrays of multipixel toroidal plasmonic terahertz (THz) metamolecules, we developed a plasmonic metamodulator…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-25 Burak Gerislioglu , Arash Ahmadivand , Nezih Pala

The electronic properties of graphene are unique and are attracting increased attention to this novel 2-dimensional system. Its photonic properties are not less impressive. For example, this single atomic layer absorbs through direct…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-25 Fengnian Xia , Thomas Mueller , Yu-ming Lin , Alberto Valdes-Garcia , Phaedon Avouris

We present experimental demonstration of electronically tunable metamaterial perfect absorbers in the terahertz regime. By incorporation of active liquid crystal into strategic locations within the metamaterial unit cell we are able to…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-29 David Shrekenhamer , Wen-Chen Chen , Willie J. Padilla

Frequency-selective or even frequency-tunable Terahertz (THz) photodevices are critical components for many technological applications that require nanoscale manipulation, control and confinement of light. Within this context, gate-tunable…

As photonic and electronic technologies approach nanometre length scales and terahertz operating speeds, electrical conductivity can no longer be treated as a purely local material parameter. In this regime, charge transport becomes…

Absorbing materials in ultra-high frequency (UHF) band has constantly been a major challenge. The size of the absorber in UHF band is large, whereas the resonant frequency band is narrow. According to Rozanov's theory, two kinds of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Song Jiaoyan , Zhao Jing , Li Yimin , Li Bo , Zhao Xiaopeng

Frequency Band of 0.5 THz to 1.1 THz (WR1.5 and WR1) is one of the promising bands when it comes to 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel metamaterial absorber suitable to be used at lower WR1 frequencies in TE mode. Alternatively, the…

We suggest a new class of hyperbolic metamaterials for THz frequencies based on multilayer graphene structures. We calculate the dielectric permittivity tensor of the effective nonlocal medium with a periodic stack of graphene layers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ivan Iorsh , Ivan Mukhin , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

To date, no electro-optic platform enables devices with high bandwidth, small footprint, and low power consumption, while also enabling mass production. Here we demonstrate high-yield fabrication of high-speed graphene electro-absorption…

We investigate the propagation of surface waves along a spatially dispersive graphene sheet, including substrate effects. The proposed analysis derives the admittances of an equivalent circuit of graphene able to handle spatial dispersion,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , J. R. Mosig , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Graphene offers a possibility for actively controlling plasmon confinement and propagation by tailoring its spatial conductivity pattern. However, implementation of this concept has been hampered because uncontrollable plasmon reflection is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Ngoc Han Tu , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Satoshi Sasaki , Makoto Takamura , Koji Muraki , Norio Kumada

The gapless energy band spectra make the structures based on graphene and graphene bilayers with the population inversion created by optical or injection pumping to be promising media for the interband terahertz (THz) lasing. However, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Svintsov , T. Otsuji , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur , V. Ryzhii

We report strong THz-induced transparency in CVD-grown graphene where 92%-96% of the peak-field is transmitted compared to 74% at lower field strength. Time-resolved THz-pump/THz-probe studies reveal that the absorption recovers in 2-3 ps.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-18 Harold Y. Hwang , Nathaniel C. Brandt , Hootan Farhat , Allen L. Hsu , Jing Kong , Keith A. Nelson

This paper introduces the design and comprehensive characterization of a novel three-layer metamaterial absorber, engineered to exploit the unique optical properties of gold, vanadium dioxide, and silicon dioxide. At the core of this…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-21 Nafisa Anjum , Alok Kumar Paul

Metasurfaces incorporating graphene hold great promise for dynamic manipulation of terahertz waves. However, it remains challenging to design a broadband graphene-based terahertz metasurface with switchable functionality of half-wave plate…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-27 Xiaoqing Luo , Juan Luo , Fangrong Hu , Guangyuan Li

Observations of terahertz loss to gain switching in transmission through gates on biased graphene sandwiches are explained by response under electron streaming in graphene. Basing on this consideration the terahertz source is proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 A. A. Andronov , V. I. Pozdniakova

Linear terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is a sensitive probe for material characterization including thickness measurements of thin layers. These applications critically rely on a sufficiently large bandwidth, which is not…