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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 53, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab651c
Keywords
tin-doped indium oxide; polyethylene terephthalate; terahertz optical system; flexible optical transparent polarizer
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- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1908085MF200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61905058]
- Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices [KFJJ201804]
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Multifunctional terahertz devices hold great promise for terahertz (THz) optical systems. Here, we present an ultrathin, highly flexible and optically transparent terahertz polarizer based on tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) and flexible conformal films of polyethylene terephthalate. The flexible optical transparent polarizer (FOTP) was theoretically investigated and experimentally characterized by UV-vis spectrophotometry and THz time-domain system. In the FOTP, THz conductivity of ITO films is mainly dominated by DC conductivity. The FOTP reveals a high optical transmittance of more than 60% in the visible region, a high extinction ratio of about 20 dB in the 0.1 THz-2.5 THz and a low insertion loss below 2 dB in the 0.1 THz-1.4 THz. The proposed FOTP can significantly improve the overall performance of THz optical systems and be easily fabricated by commercial display techniques. Our concept opens up a new window for highly flexible and optically transparent THz devices.
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