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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 12, Pages 2886-2889Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.002886
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- CUHK Direct Grant [4055001]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [415313]
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We report the potential application of 6% dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO)-doped poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly (4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS) as a low cost and broadband terahertz (THz) antireflection coating based on the impedance matching effect. The reflected pulses from the quartz and silicon substrates are observed to change with the thickness of the PEDOT/PSS layer. Theoretical analysis based on an equivalent transmission line circuit model and FDTD computational simulations have been used to understand the experimental results. Excellent impedance matching is achieved by a similar to 39-nm-thick 6% DMSO-doped PEDOT/PSS layer on quartz, and a similar to 101-nm-thick 6% DMSO-doped PEDOT/PSS layer on silicon due to the almost-frequency-independent conductivity of the thin film between 0.3 and 2.5 THz. In the critical conditions, the normalized main pulse transmission remains as high as 74% and 64%, for the quartz and silicon substrates, respectively, significantly higher than the existing state of the art THz antireflection coatings. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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