Journal
NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGEROPEN
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-018-2552-z
Keywords
Thz absorption; Surface plasmons; Metamaterials; Tunable Thz devices
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2016YFA0301300]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [61275201, 61372037]
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We propose and numerically demonstrate an ultra-broadband graphene-based metamaterial absorber, which consists of multi-layer graphene/dielectric on the SiO2 layer supported by a metal substrate. The simulated result shows that the proposed absorber can achieve a near-perfect absorption above 90% with a bandwidth of 4.8 Thz Owing to the flexible tunability of graphene sheet, the state of the absorber can be switched from on (absorption > 90%) to off (reflection > 90%) in the frequencies range of 3-7.8 Thz by controlling the Fermi energy of graphene. Moreover, the absorber is insensitive to the incident angles. The broadband absorption can be maintained over 90% up to 50 degrees. Importantly, the design is scalable to develop broader tunable terahertz absorbers by adding more graphene layers which may have wide applications in imaging, sensors, photodetectors, and modulators.
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