Design of a tunable terahertz narrowband metamaterial absorber based on an electrostatically actuated MEMS cantilever and split ring resonator array

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Fangrong ^a   Qian, Yixian ^b   Li, Zhi ^a   Niu, Junhao ^a   Nie, Kun ^a   Xiong, Xianming ^a   Zhang, Wentao ^a   Peng, Zhiyong ^a  

^a GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cantilever; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); split ring resonator (SRR); terahertz (THz); tunable metamaterial absorber

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; MEMS; METAMATERIALS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POLARIZATION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TUNING;

CANTILEVER; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); SPLIT-RING RESONATORS (SRR); TERAHERTZ; TUNABLE METAMATERIALS;

RING GAGES;

EID: 84878278061     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/5/055101     Document Type: Article

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