Tunable Polarization-Selective Absorption by Gating Ultrathin TiN Films in the Near-Infrared Region

Abstract

Ultrathin titanium nitride (TiN) is a novel material platform for constructing active metasurfaces in the near-infrared region (NIR). Here, we realized tunable polarization-selective absorption by gating ultrathin TiN in an Ultrathin TiN Grating Metasurface (UTGM) and a gold resonator/TiN film Hybrid Metasurface (GTHM), respectively. The TM wave absorption (0.96) was much larger than that of the TE wave in the UTGM. When the carrier density decreased by 12%, the near-perfect TM absorption peak blue-shifted by 0.3 μm. Similarly, the linear dichroism (0.96) peak in GTHM blue-shifted by 0.12 μm when gating ultrathin TiN film. Active metasurfaces with tunable polarization-selective absorption have huge potential in dynamic integrated electro-optic devices in NIR.

Keywords

• active metasurfaces
• ultrathin TiN films
• polarization-selective absorption
• the near-infrared region