Graphene based waveguide fed hybrid plasmonic terahertz patch antenna

Abstract

Abstract The terahertz (THz) technology has fascinated lot of attention due to its enormous potential for a wide range of applications in the public, private and enterprise domains. This research work demonstrates the design structure and analysis of graphene based waveguide fed hybrid plasmonic THz patch antenna (HPTPA) constructed at around 3 THz. Hybrid plasmonic THz waveguide (HPTW) as a feeding line for the proposed THz patch antenna can increases antenna efficiency. The graphene is sandwiched between gallium arsenide (GaAs) and silver (Ag) to confine THz waves efficiently. Using mode analysis in finite element method for the proposed HPTW the propagation length, effective refractive index has been thoroughly examined. Based on the finite element method (FEM) approach, the results of the designed graphene-based waveguide fed HPTPA shows a high effective refractive index of 2.9, large propagation length of 230 µm, gain of 2.29 dBi, bandwidth of 200 GHz and efficiency of 85 % has obtained. The proposed graphene-based waveguide fed HPTPA could be beneficial to enable several photonic integrated circuit applications in next-generation wireless communication.