Abstract

Terahertz (THz) science and technology have been developed rapidly over the past decade due to its superiority in security, communication, imaging, and spectroscopy. In order to manipulate THz waves efficiently, many THz functional materials and devices have been proposed. Metasurfaces with subwavelength elements arranged in a periodic or quasi-periodic manner have been widely investigated. The amplitude, phase and polarization state can be controlled flexibly by designing the geometry. In this paper, several typical THz electromagnetic functional materials will be introduced, magnetic-optical semiconductors, nanoparticle liquid crystal, 3D graphene foam, carbon nanotubes, etc. These electromagnetic functional materials show unique functions for THz active modulation, polarization conversion, one-way transmission, and perfect absorption. Combined with these new materials, we designed and fabricated a series of THz metasurface device to enhance or expand the functions of these functional materials. Meanwhile, the introduction of functional materials brings THz metasurfaces into the active properties. The combination of these artificial micro-structures and electromagnetic functional materials bring new development for active or multifunctional THz devices.

Highlights

  • Terahertz (THz) wave has been widely used in imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, and communication with the rapid development of terahertz (THz) science and technology [1,2,3]

  • An optically pumped ultrasensitive broadband terahertz (THz) wave modulator based on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film on Si wafer was demonstrated in this work

  • Ferromagnetic liquid crystals (FLCs), the suspensions of ferromagnetic nanoparticle dispersed at different concentrations in liquid crystals (LCs), and its special magnetically induced birefringence characteristics has been investigated in the terahertz regime, mainly focusing on the interaction between magnetic cluster chains and LC molecules

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Summary

Introduction

Terahertz (THz) wave has been widely used in imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, and communication with the rapid development of terahertz (THz) science and technology [1,2,3]. In this paper, based on the research works over the last two years in our research group, we will introduce several typical THz electromagnetic functional materials, magnetic-optical semiconductors, nanoparticle liquid crystal, 3D graphene foam, carbon nanotubes, etc. These electromagnetic functional materials show unique functions for THz active modulation, polarization conversion, one-way transmission, and perfect absorption. The introduction of functional materials brings THz metasurfaces into the active properties The combination of these artificial micro-structures and electromagnetic functional materials bring new development for active or multifunctional THz devices

Semiconductor materials
Terahertz modulation enhanced by laser processed PVA film on Si substrate
Liquid crystals
Terahertz liquid crystal phase shifter doped by magnetic nanoparticles
Terahertz dual-frequency liquid crystal doped by carbon nanotubes
Terahertz resonance switch based on liquid crystal in compound metasurface
Active terahertz shielding and absorption based on graphene foam
Findings
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