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Tunable THz wave absorption by graphene-assisted plasmonic metasurfaces based on metallic split ring resonators

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Graphene plasmonics has been introduced as a novel platform to design various nano- and microstructures to function in a wide range of spectrum from optical to THz frequencies. Herein, we propose a tunable plasmonic metamaterial in the THz regime by using metallic (silver) concentric microscale split ring resonator arrays on a multilayer metasurface composed of silica and silicon layers. We obtained an absorption percentage of 47.9% including two strong Fano resonant dips in THz regime for the purely plasmonic metamaterial without graphene layer. Considering the data of an atomic graphene sheet (with the thickness of ~0.35 nm) in both analytical and experimental regimes obtained by prior works, we employed a graphene layer under concentric split ring resonator arrays and above the multilayer metasurface to enhance the absorption ratio in THz bandwidth. Our numerical and analytical results proved that the presence of a thin graphene layer enhances the absorption coefficient of MM to 64.35%, at the highest peak in absorption profile that corresponds to the Fano dip position. We also have shown that changing the intrinsic characteristics of graphene sheet leads to shifts in the position of Fano dips and variations in the absorption efficiency. The maximum percentage of absorption (~67%) was obtained for graphene-based MM with graphene layer with dissipative loss factor of 1477 Ω. Employing the antisymmetric feature of the split ring resonators, the proposed graphene-based metamaterial with strong polarization dependency is highly sensitive to the polarization angle of the incident THz beam.

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Raju Sinha gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided through dissertational year fellowship by the University Graduate School (UGS) at Florida International University.

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    Arash Ahmadivand, Raju Sinha, Mustafa Karabiyik, Phani Kiran Vabbina, Burak Gerislioglu, Serkan Kaya & Nezih Pala

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This study was funded by NSF CAREER program with the award number 0955013, and by Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Multiscale Multidisciplinary Modeling of Electronic Materials (MSME) Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA) (Grant No. W911NF-12-2-0023, Program Manager: Dr. Meredith L. Reed).

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Ahmadivand, A., Sinha, R., Karabiyik, M. et al. Tunable THz wave absorption by graphene-assisted plasmonic metasurfaces based on metallic split ring resonators. J Nanopart Res 19, 3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-016-3696-3

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