Bandwidth Enhancement of Planar Terahertz Metasurfaces via Overlapping of Dipolar Modes
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We present enhancement of operational bandwidths of planar terahertz metasurfaces by incorporating a complex unit cell that consists of a pair of concentric ring resonators. The inner resonator is a closed ring, while the outer resonator contains a pair of split gaps introduced symmetrically into the two opposite arms. The enhancement of the bandwidth is attributed to the spectral overlapping of the resonant responses arising from both the resonators. A total of five metasurface samples (MM1 to MM5) have been designed, fabricated, and characterized using terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Resonance broadening along with the blue shifting of higher order resonance mode is being observed while introducing the split gaps in the outer ring and increasing the split gap length (MM1 to MM5) successively. We have further performed detailed numerical investigations in order to explain the experimental observations which support the experimental results. Such metasurfaces can pave the way to realize versatile photonic applications including broadband modulators and band stop filters in the comparatively lesser explored yet technologically relevant terahertz region.
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OpenAlex topics: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications · Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies · Antenna Design and Analysis
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