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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4990671
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- Army Research Office
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- Sandia National Laboratories [DE-NA-0003525]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1505536] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present a study of an electrically modulated nonlinear metamaterial consisting of an array of split-ring resonators fabricated on n-type gallium arsenide. The resonant metamaterial nonlinearity appears as an intensity-dependent transmission minimum at terahertz frequencies and arises from the interaction between local electric fields in the split-ring resonator (SRR) capacitive gaps and charge carriers in the n-type substrate. We investigate the active tuning range of the metamaterial device as the incident terahertz field intensity is increased and conversely the effect of an applied DC bias on the terahertz field-induced nonlinear modulation of the metamaterial response. Applying a DC bias to the metamaterial sample alters the nonlinear response and reduces the net nonlinear modulation. Similarly, increasing the incident terahertz field intensity decreases the net modulation induced by an applied DC bias. We interpret these results in terms of DC and terahertz field- assisted carrier acceleration, scattering, and multiplication processes, highlighting the unique nature of this DC-field modulated terahertz nonlinearity. Published by AIP Publishing.
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