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Tunable ultra-wideband polarization insensitivity wide-angle perfect THz absorber based on metamaterials containing vanadium dioxide

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In this paper, a dynamically tunable ultra-broadband metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) containing vanadium dioxide (VO2) is proposed and verified. The simulation results show that the MPA designed by us can not only achieve more than 90% absorption in the ultra-wideband range of 4.5–10 THz, but also achieve more than 99% perfect absorption in the wideband range of 5.5–8.3 THz. And the high absorption rate is caused by electric dipole resonance, which can be demonstrated by the distribution of the electric field. By adjusting the conductivity of VO2 from 200 to 4 × 104 S/m through changing the temperature to induce the phase transition of VO2, one can continuously adjust the absorption of the proposed MPA from 16 to 100%. Furthermore, the proposed structure can achieve perfect absorption in a wide range of angles with TE polarization within 60°and TM polarization within 50°, which can effectively promote the development of THz devices, such as optical switches and modulators.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing (Wuhan University of Technology) under Grant No. 2022-KF-15, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (CSTB2023NSCQ-MSX0730), the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves under Grant No. K201606, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11664025 and 11964018, and the Natural Science Foundation from the Jiangxi Province under Grant No. 20224BAB202032.

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    Pingsheng Zhang, Kaipeng Qin, Xin-Hua Deng, Hongfei Liu & Jiren Yuan

  2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Xin-Hua Deng

  3. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, People’s Republic of China

    Xin-Hua Deng

  4. School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by PZ, KQ, X-HD, HL, and JY. The first draft of the manuscript was written by PZ and KQ, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhang, P., Qin, K., Deng, XH. et al. Tunable ultra-wideband polarization insensitivity wide-angle perfect THz absorber based on metamaterials containing vanadium dioxide. Appl. Phys. A 129, 644 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06918-1

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