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All-Optical Tunable Slow Light Based on Metal/Semiconductor Hybrid EIT Metamaterial

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We propose a hybrid metamaterial whose unit cell is consisted of a silicon ring and a silver T-shaped antenna. We use finite-difference time-domain to simulate the electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT)-like effect and slow-light performance of the metamaterial. Then, we also study the influence of different parameters, and finally achieve a group refractive index of 2253 slow-light effect based on an EIT-like effect. Moreover, we use two-dimensional material WS2 to tune the slow-light effect. This tuning method brings forward a research idea for the slow-light tuning of active metamaterials.

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This work was supported from Innovation and practical ability training project of Xi'an Shiyou University (YCS20213211); Key Research and Development projects in Shaanxi Province (2018GY-062).

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    Yao Zhang, Chengju Ma, Jiasheng Jin, Yuebin Zhang, Shiqian Bao, Mi Li, Dongming Li, Yixin Zhang, Ming Liu & Qianzhen Liu

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Y.Z. and C.J.M. designed the structure of the hybrid metamaterial and the methodology and wrote the manuscript; J.S.J., Y.B.Z., S.Q.B. and M.L. carried out the simulations; D.M.L. analyzed the simulation results; Y.X.Z., M.L. and Q.Z.L. created the data visualization. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhang, Y., Ma, C., Jin, J. et al. All-Optical Tunable Slow Light Based on Metal/Semiconductor Hybrid EIT Metamaterial. J. Electron. Mater. 52, 593–601 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-10031-z

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