Switching terahertz waves with gate-controlled active graphene metamaterials

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 936-941

  Lee, Seung Hoon ^a   Choi, Muhan ^b   Kim, Teun Teun ^a   Lee, Seungwoo ^a   Liu, Ming ^c   Yin, Xiaobo ^c   Choi, Hong Kyw ^b   Lee, Seung S ^a   Choi, Choon Gi ^b   Choi, Sung Yool ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^c,d   Min, Bumki ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METAMATERIALS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOUR; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODULATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSMITTED WAVES; TUNING CAPABILITY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84867887130     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3433     Document Type: Article

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