| Issue |
EPJ Appl. Metamat.
Volume 4, 2017
Artificial materials for advanced applications in electromagnetics and mechanics
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| Article Number | 6 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjam/2017001 | |
| Published online | 17 February 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjam/2017001
Research Article
Tunable plasmonic metasurface for perfect absorption
Imperial College London, Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, London
SW7 2AZ, UK
* e-mail: p.arroyo-huidobro@imperial.ac.uk
Received:
6
October
2016
Accepted:
13
January
2017
Published online: 17 February 2017
Tunable metasurfaces, whose functionality can be dynamically modified, open up the possibility of ultra-compact photonic components with reconfigurable applications. Here we consider a graphene monolayer subject to a spatially periodic gate bias, which, thank to surface plasmons in the graphene, acts as a tunable and extremely compact metasurface for terahertz radiation. After characterizing its functionality, we show that it serves as the basic building block of an ultrathin complete absorber. In this subwavelength-thickness device, transmission and reflection channels are blocked and electromagnetic energy is completely absorbed by the metasurface building blocks. The proposed structure can be used as a modulator, and its frequency of operation can be changed by scaling its size or adjusting the doping level.
Key words: Graphene plasmonics / Tunable metasurface / Perfect absorption
© P.A. Huidobro et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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