An Ultra-Wideband Terahertz Metamaterial Absorber Utilizing Sinusoidal-Patterned Dielectric Loaded Graphene

Abstract

In this paper, a non-structured graphene sheet loaded with a sinusoidal-patterned dielectric is introduced as an ultra-wideband metamaterial absorber in terahertz regime. Regardless of conventional structures with multilayered-graphene, a single layer sheet of non-structured graphene is used whereas the proposed structure benefits from dielectric width modulation and cavity method in order to excite continuous graphene plasmon resonances. The structure comprises four layers that two Fabry-Perot cavity mirrors are constructed by upper sinusoidal-patterned dielectric and a gold film. Full wave simulation results demonstrate that a broadband over 90% absorption with absolute bandwidth of 6.58 THz and central frequency of 3.97 THz is achieved under normal TE/TM incident plane wave. The designed structure yields 166% relative bandwidth. According to the symmetric configuration, the absorption spectra of mentioned polarizations are thoroughly close to each other resulting to a polarization insensitive structure. The stability of bandwidth and absorbance of the structure versus angle of incidence, θ, up to 35°/65° for TM/TE polarizations, respectively, and azimuth angle, φ, shows an interesting capability for utilization as detectors and sensors. The simple geometry of utilized graphene layer results in easy fabrication. The designed structure has wideband absorption in THz regime. Moreover, it is more compact than conventional broadband THz absorbers.