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Graphene-Enhanced Metamaterials for THz Applications

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Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics

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Terahertz (THz) radiation is gaining momentum in biology, medicine, communication, security, chemistry, and spectroscopy applications. To expand the usability of terahertz radiation the man-made metal-dielectric composite metamaterials are typically considered owing to their ability to effectively manipulate electromagnetic waves. The possibilities of light manipulation can be extended even more by involving new active materials as a structural component – such as, for example, graphene. Its prominent conductivity tunability through the electrochemical potential change allows converting a multilayer graphene/dielectric structure into an artificial medium with widely varying properties – transparent or opaque, plasmonic, low-index or high-index dielectric – in a certain THz or infra-red frequency range. This chapter presents several examples of effective THz components like absorbers, modulators, and filters based on graphene-dielectric multilayers.

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Acknowledgements

A.A. acknowledges the financial support from the Danish Council for Technical and Production Sciences through the GraTer project (Contract No. 0602-02135B). S.Z. acknowledges partial financial support from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF under REA grant agreement No. 302009 (Project HyPHONE). I.K. acknowledges UPNA for financial support through a mobility grant.

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  1. Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Andrei Andryieuski, Sergei V. Zhukovsky & Andrei V. Lavrinenko

  2. King’s College London, London, UK

    Irina Khromova

  3. Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain

    Irina Khromova

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Andryieuski, A., Khromova, I., Zhukovsky, S.V., Lavrinenko, A.V. (2016). Graphene-Enhanced Metamaterials for THz Applications. In: Maffucci, A., Maksimenko, S.A. (eds) Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7478-9_8

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