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Electrically tunable terahertz wave modulator based on complementary metamaterial and graphene

Journal Article · · Journal of Applied Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866079· OSTI ID:22273802
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  1. Department of Electronic Science and technology, School of Applied Sciences, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080 (China)
  2. Department of Electronic and Communications Engineering, School of Electronic Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China)

In this paper, we design and numerically demonstrate an electrically controllable light-matter interaction in a hybrid material/metamaterial system consisting of an artificially constructed cross cut-wire complementary metamaterial and an atomically thin graphene layer to realize terahertz (THz) wave modulator. By applying a bias voltage between the metamaterial and the graphene layer, this modulator can dynamically control the amplitude and phase of the transmitted wave near 1.43 THz. Moreover, the distributions of current density show that this large modulation depth can be attributed to the resonant electric field parallel to the graphene sheet. Therefore, the modulator performance indicates the enormous potential of graphene for developing sophisticated THz communication systems.

OSTI ID:
22273802
Journal Information:
Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 115; ISSN JAPIAU; ISSN 0021-8979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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