Tunable terahertz meta-surface with graphene cut-wires

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 151-156

  Fan, Yuancheng ^a   Shen, Nian Hai ^b   Koschny, Thomas ^b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

absorption enhancement; effective surface conductivity; graphene; metamaterials; plasmonics; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; WIRE;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CUT-WIRE ARRAYS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; PLASMONICS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ ABSORPTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84921481241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500366z     Document Type: Article

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