Scientific Reports (Jul 2017)

Active KTaO3 hybrid terahertz metamaterial

  • Liang Wu,
  • Jinglong Liu,
  • Hui Li,
  • Chunfeng Ding,
  • Ningning Xu,
  • Xiaolei Zhao,
  • Zongcheng Xu,
  • Quan Sheng,
  • Jianquan Yao,
  • Jining Li,
  • Xin Ding,
  • Weili Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05529-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Abstract The dielectric properties of an active KTaO3 hybrid metamaterial structure and its tunability under external electric fields are investigated at room temperature by means of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Application of the electric field leads to an appreciable tuning of the dielectric loss, which is up to 17%. Meanwhile, the refractive index also changes appreciably. These findings are attributed to the internal space charge field in the crystal caused by the excited free carriers.