Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Broadband impedance match to two-dimensional materials in the terahertz domain

  • Phi H. Q. Pham,
  • Weidong Zhang,
  • Nhi V. Quach,
  • Jinfeng Li,
  • Weiwei Zhou,
  • Dominic Scarmardo,
  • Elliott R. Brown,
  • Peter J. Burke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02336-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient coupling of an electromagnetic wave to a thin conductor relies on the sheet conductance of the given material. Here, the authors demonstrate that engineering the monolayer graphene sheet resistance enables electrical or chemical tuning from the transmission to the absorption regime up to THz frequencies.