Design and verify a dual modulated metasurface in terahertz range

Abstract

A single peak tunable metasurface absorber is proposed and verified in Terahertz (THz) range. This absorption peak is excited by the localized surface plasma (LSP) and dielectric loss modes at resonance frequency 2.98 THz with 83% of amplitude. Three groups of experiments are performed to verify the sensing properties of samples. In the first groups of experiments, temperature is increasing from T = 300 k to T = 400 k, which leads to the absorption peak enhance from 83% (at 2.98 THz) to 93.7% (at 3.5 THz). In the second groups of experiments, samples are covered by ethanol or chloroform (T = 300 k), this absorption peak is also increased and moved to higher frequencies. When temperature and liquid layer are changed simultaneously, samples achieve more intense resonance behaviors in a smaller temperature scale. Finally, this absorption peak is reduced by increasing pump fluence. This proposed tunable metasurface absorber reveals the feasibility of sensing field.