Photonics (Dec 2021)

Ultrahigh-Q Tunable Terahertz Absorber Based on Bulk Dirac Semimetal with Surface Lattice Resonance

  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Yanghong Ou,
  • Shiyu Wang,
  • Yanzi Meng,
  • Zi Wang,
  • Xiang Zhai,
  • Lingling Wang,
  • Shengxuan Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9010022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
p. 22

Abstract

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In this paper, we present an easy-to-implement metamaterial absorber based on bulk Dirac semimetal (BDS). The proposed device not only obtains an ultrahigh quality factor (Q-factor) of 4133 and dynamic adjustability at high absorption, but also exhibits an excellent sensing performance with a figure of merit (FOM) of 4125. These outstanding properties are explained by the surface lattice resonance, which allows us to improve the quality factor significantly and control resonance wavelength precisely by tuning the unit cell periods, Fermi energy of the BDS, and structural parameters. Our findings can provide high-performance applications in terahertz filtering, detection, and biochemical sensing.

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