液晶环境下金纳米柱的表面等离子体特性研究

为了有效研究液晶环境对金属纳米结构表面等离子体的调制作用,基于时域有限差分方法,对液晶环境下金纳米柱结构进行了建模,上下边界采用完全吸收边界条件,四周为周期边界条件.数值模拟了液晶厚度、倾角、光栅距离以及周期结构等参数对金纳米柱的消光特性的调制作用.分析结果表明:随着液晶光轴角度增加,谐振波长出现红移现象,且调制范围为40nm;光栅距离越大,金纳米柱之间的相互作用越弱,谐振波长越小;增加周期长度,谐振波长红移,且随着周期长度增加,次峰作用越明显.利用液晶光学性质可调节金属纳米结构的表面等离子体特性,结果对液晶环境中表面等离子体结构在新的光子器件等方面的研究提供了理论依据.     

基于等离子体缺陷层的一维可调谐微波光子晶体滤波特性

等离子体填充到一维介质-真空微波光子晶体的缺陷层构成一种可调谐单通道滤波器.据等离子体的强色散特性,其等效折射率与电磁波频率及等离子体频率等参数有关,因而可以通过改变等离子参数,使一维微波光子晶体缺陷层的谐振频率发生偏移,实现微波光子晶体的可调谐滤波特性.介质层和等离子体层分别采用了时域有限差分（FDTD）算法及分段线性电流密度卷积时域有限差分（PLJERC-FDTD）算法.数值模拟表明,通过改变等离子体频率可以实现滤波通道在光子禁带内较大带宽范围的移动. 关键词： 等离子体 微波光子晶体 可调谐滤波     

基于液晶的广角太赫兹可调谐超表面吸波器

提出了一种结构简单的广角稳定太赫兹可调谐超表面吸波器,利用液晶材料电可调谐的性质,实现超表面吸波器吸收频率的调谐。利用液晶材料介电常数张量进行材料建模,模拟了液晶材料的各向异性特性。为了提高设计效率,得到良好的吸波性能和可调谐性能,利用粒子群算法对超表面吸波器单元结构进行了逆向设计;并对设计的超表面吸波器特性进行研究。结果表明,利用粒子群算法可以高效地逆向设计出性能良好超表面吸波器,当对吸波器施加的电压在0～10 V范围内连续调谐时,实现了TE模式吸波频率在404.4～444.4 GHz范围内连续可调谐,频率可调谐性为9%,吸收率大于99%;TM模式吸波频率在404.4～425.4 GHz范围内连续可调谐,频率可调谐性为4.64%,吸收率大于99%;当斜入射角度为60°时,吸收率仍大于94%,具有大角度入射稳定性和吸收频率稳定性。本文设计的太赫兹超表面吸波器具备高吸收率、大频率可调谐性、广角稳定性和低控制电压等优点,具有广泛的应用价值。     

衍射极限尺度下的亚波长电磁学

作为波的本性之一,衍射是现代物理学的重要研究内容.衍射导致自由空间中波的能量不能被无限小地聚集,从而为成像、光刻、光存储、光波导等技术设定了一个原理性的障碍——衍射极限.对于电磁波和光波而言,尽管通过提高介质的折射率可以压缩衍射效应,但由于自然界中材料的折射率有限,该方法存在很大限制.近年来,随着表面等离子体光学的兴起,表面等离子体在超越传统衍射极限方面的能力和应用前景受到了学术界的关注.本文从亚波长电磁学的角度出发,介绍衍射极限研究的历史,综述了突破衍射极限的理论方法.首先,利用金属介质表面等离子体激元的短波长特性,可将等效波长压缩一个数量级以上,在纳米尺度实现光波的聚焦或定向传输;更进一步,通过人为设计超构材料和超构表面,利用结构化金属和介质中的局域谐振、耦合等特殊电磁响应,可实现亚波长局域相位调制、超宽带色散调控、近完美吸收、光子自旋轨道耦合等,从而突破传统理论的诸多局限,为下一代电磁学和光学功能器件奠定重要基础.     

可调谐液晶法-珀滤光片的研究

提出了一种可用于密集波分复用系统中的新型可调谐滤光片的设计方法,该设计利用了液晶的双折射现象,以及液晶盒内法-珀效应,从理论上分析了器件的光谱特性,计算了液晶分子的折射率调制和其分子转动角度的关系.并对器件进行了性能测试.实验结果与理论吻合较好.     

宽范围可调谐内腔液晶垂直腔面发射激光器设计与研究

为增加可调谐激光器的波长调谐范围,提高系统的可靠性和稳定性,基于液晶的电控双折射特性,设计了一种中心波长为852 nm的内腔液晶可调谐垂直腔面发射激光器结构。分析了该结构获得宽范围波长调谐和单偏振稳定输出的物理原理,利用传输矩阵法进一步计算整个器件下不同液晶层厚度所对应的反射谱,得出不同液晶厚度和折射率下激光器的激射波长。结果表明,液晶可调谐激光器单偏振波长调谐范围达到31 nm,调谐效率大于10 nm/V。     

相变材料与超表面复合结构太赫兹移相器

利用相变材料嵌入超表面组成复合结构实现太赫兹移相器,该器件自上而下依次为二氧化钒嵌入金属层、液晶、二氧化钒嵌入金属层、二氧化硅层.通过二氧化钒的相变特性和液晶的双折率特性同时作用实现对器件相位调控.随着外加温度变化二氧化钒电导率发生改变,器件的相位随之产生移动,同样的对液晶层施加不同的电压导致液晶折射率发生变化,器件相位也会有影响.经过这两种介质共同作用,最终实现对太赫兹波相位有效调控.仿真结果验证了该相移器在频率f=0.736 THz时,太赫兹移相器的最大相移量达到355.37°,在0.731—0.752 THz(带宽为22 GHz)频率范围相移量超过350°.这种基于相变材料与超表面复合结构为灵活调控太赫兹波提供了一种新思路,将在太赫兹成像、通信等领域有着广泛的应用前景.     

基于金属线阵列嵌入的低频宽带电路模拟吸波体设计

由于等效电阻谐振条件限制, 传统的单层电路模拟吸波体(CA)结构在低频段不能形成多个谐振点. 为了突破这个限制, 本文提出了一种金属线阵列嵌入的单层CA结构. 该结构在低频段形成了双谐振峰吸收, 拓展了吸波频带. 采用准静态模型, 分析金属线阵列嵌入的单层CA结构内的电磁波的散射. 分析结果表明, 金属线阵列的嵌入使结构的介质层在低频激发等离子体谐振. 在该谐振频率点, 结构形成额外吸收峰, 该吸收峰和单层CA结构原有的吸收峰一起实现了双峰吸收. 实验和FDTD数值计算结果相符合, 结果表明该结构在不增加厚度的前提下, 扩展了低频段的吸波频段. 关键词： 金属线阵列 宽带吸波 电路模拟吸波体 电阻型频率选择表面     

一种用于密集波分复用系统中的可调谐液晶法布里-珀罗滤光片

基于液晶分子的双折射特性，设计并制作了一种结构简单的可用于波分复用系统中的可调谐液晶法布里-珀罗滤光片。对器件的光谱调谐特性进行了分析和模拟，并得到了液晶分子的折射率调制与其分子在电场作用下产生的转动角度之间的关系式。最后，对所设计的结构进行了制作和实验，测试结果显示了滤光片的性能受液晶分子的排列特性和法布里-珀罗腔的反射镜参量的影响较大，同时实验表明了这种利用向列型液晶分子作为法布里-珀罗腔内介质的可调谐滤光片在加电压调试下其调谐性能良好，调谐范围可覆盖C波段，透过峰的半峰全宽达到了0．8nm，实验结果与设计相吻合。     

红外波段十字阵列光吸收材料光学特性研究

尺寸为光波长量级的微纳结构材料与电磁波的相互作用,使得其具有许多特殊的光学性能,金属-电介质-金属微纳结构具有电磁波完美吸收特性。基于S参数法,研究十字阵列光吸收材料在红外波段的光学特性参数,分析其谐振吸收机理及光学特性参数调谐性。研究结果表明,十字阵列单元尺寸对其等效光学参数具有调谐作用;当材料表面与入射介质之间满足阻抗匹配条件,以及等效折射率系数虚部值足够大时,可以有效提高其吸收率;经过结构优化的十字阵列光吸收材料在红外波段具有大于95%的吸收率,实验样件测试结果大于80%。十字结构臂长和电介质层厚度决定吸收谱特性,而十字结构臂宽仅仅影响吸收谱峰值大小。十字阵列光吸收材料在红外波段的完美吸收及光谱调谐性特点,使其可用于红外探测和光谱成像等领域。     

Wideband perfect light absorber at midwave infrared using multiplexed metal structures

We experimentally demonstrate a wideband near-perfect light absorber in the midwave IR region using a multiplexed plasmonic metal structure. The wideband near-perfect light absorber is made of two different size gold metal squares multiplexed on a thin dielectric spacing layer on top of a thick metal layer in each unit cell. We also fabricate regular nonmultiplexed structure perfect light absorbers. The multiplexed structure IR absorber absorbs more than 98% of the incident light over a much wider spectral band than regular nonmultiplexed structure perfect light absorbers in the midwave IR region.     

Manipulating surface plasmon waves by transformation optics:Design examples of a beam squeezer,bend,and omnidirectional absorber

We present several design examples of how to apply transformation optics and curved space under coordinate transformation to manipulating the surface plasmon waves in a controlled manner.We demonstrate in detail the design procedure of the plasmonic wave squeezer,in-plane bend and omnidirectional absorber.We show that the approximation method of modifying only the dielectric material of a dielectric-metal surface of the plasmonic device could lead to acceptable performance,which facilitates the fabrication of the device.The functionality of the proposed plasmonic device is verified using three-dimensional full-wave electromagnetic simulations.Aiming at practical realization,we also show the design of a plasmonic in-plane bend and omnidirectional absorber by an alternative transformation scheme,which results in a simple device structure with a tapered isotropic dielectric cladding layer on the top of the metal surface that can be fabricated with existing nanotechnology.     

Manipulating surface plasmon waves by transformation optics: Design examples of beam squeezer, bend, and omnidirectional absorber

We present several design examples of how to apply the transformation optics and curved space under coordinate transformation to manipulating the surface plasmon waves in a controlled manner. We demonstrate in detail the design procedure of the plasmonic wave squeezer, in-plane bend and omnidirectional absorber. We show that the approximation method of modifying only the dielectric material of a dielectric-metal surface of the plasmonic device could lead to acceptable performance, which facilitates the fabrication of the device. The functionality of the proposed plasmonic device is verified using three-dimensional full-wave electromagnetic simulations. Aiming at practical realization, we also show the design of plasmonic in-plane bend and omnidirectional absorber by an alternative transformation scheme, which results in simple device structure with a tapered isotropic dielectric cladding layer on the top of the metal surface that can be fabricated with the existing nanotechnology.     

一种基于十字镂空结构的低频超材料吸波体的设计与制备

设计了一种十字镂空的超材料结构,与传统的铁磁吸波材料相结合,实现了低频吸收频带的扩宽.仿真结果显示,吸波体在2-4 GHz范围可以实现-10 dB以下的吸收,相比于没有加载超材料的情况,吸收带宽扩展了0.5 GHz.实验结果在2.5-5.1 GHz范围内也显示了相似的吸收曲线,低于-9 dB的吸收频带有0.48 GHz的扩宽,扩展了23%.不同结构的能量损耗密度分布表明,相比于无镂空的十字结构,镂空十字结构可以增加磁场能量损耗,加强单元结构之间的耦合,降低超材料对传统吸波材料性能的破坏.探索了传统铁磁吸波材料厚度的变化对吸波体吸收性能的影响,发现由超材料引入的附加峰位置不随着吸波材料厚度的改变而明显地移动.根据这个结果,进一步设计了由两种超材料叠加组合而成的吸波体,仿真结果和实验结果均显示,在降低了1.1 mm铁磁吸波材料层厚度的情况下,使低频吸收带宽又扩展了0.9 GHz.     

Dual-function terahertz metasurface based on vanadium dioxide and graphene

A dual-function terahertz metasurface based on VO₂ and graphene is proposed in this paper. It consists of a gold layer embedded with VO₂ patches, a SiO₂ spacer layer, a VO₂ layer, graphene and a SiO₂ spacer substrate. When the bottom VO₂ layer is in the metallic state, the designed metasurface can achieve absorption. When the top VO₂ patches are in the metallic state, the proposed metasurface can be used as a single-band absorber with terahertz absorptance of 99.7% at 0.736 THz. When the top VO₂ patches are in the insulating state, the designed structure behaves as a dual-band absorber with an absorptance of 98.9% at 0.894 THz and 99.9% at 1.408 THz. In addition, the absorber is polarization insensitive and keeps good performance at large angles of incidence. When the bottom VO₂ is in an insulating state, the metasurface shows electromagnetically induced transparency. The transparent window can be dynamically regulated by controlling the chemical potential of graphene. The proposed metasurface exhibits the advantages of terahertz absorption, electromagnetically induced transparency and dynamic control, which provides more options for the design of terahertz devices in the future.     

Surface plasmon-enhanced dual-band infrared absorber for VO_x-based microbolometer application

We propose a periodic structure as an extra absorption layer(i.e., absorber) based on surface plasmon resonance effects, enhancing dual-band absorption in both middle wavelength infrared(MWIR) and long wavelength infrared(LWIR)regions. Periodic gold disks are selectively patterned onto the top layer of suspended SiN/VO_2/SiN sandwich-structure.We employ the finite element method to model this structure in COMSOL Multiphysics including a proposed method of modulating the absorption peak. Simulation results show that the absorber has two absorption peaks at wavelengths λ =4.8 μm and λ = 9 μm with the absorption magnitudes more than 0.98 and 0.94 in MWIR and LWIR regions, respectively. In addition, the absorber achieves broad spectrum absorption in LWIR region, in the meanwhile, tunable dual-band absorption peaks can be achieved by variable heights of cavity as well as diameters and periodicity of disk. Thus, this designed absorber can be a good candidate for enhancing the performance of dual band uncooled infrared detector, furthermore, the manufacturing process of cavity can be easily simplified so that the reliability of such devices can be improved.     

基于石墨烯互补超表面的可调谐太赫兹吸波体

通过在石墨烯超表面设计周期性切条,实现了基于石墨烯互补超表面的可调谐太赫兹吸波体.通过改变外加电压来改变石墨烯的费米能级,吸波体实现频率可调谐特性.研究了石墨烯费米能级、结构尺寸对超材料吸波体吸收特性的影响,并利用多重反射理论研究了其物理机理并且证明了模拟方法的可行性.研究结果表明:当石墨烯费米能级取0.6 eV,基底厚度13μm,石墨烯上切条长宽分别为2.9μm,0.1μm时,吸波体在1.865 THz可以实现99.9%的完美吸收;石墨烯费米能级从0.4 eV增大到0.9 eV,吸波体共振频率从1.596 THz蓝移到2.168 THz,且伴随共振吸收率的改变,吸收率在0.6 eV时达到最大;通过改变费米能级实现的最大吸收率调制度达84.55%.     

Design of Broadband Metamaterial Absorbers for Permittivity Sensitivity and Solar Cell Application

A broadband and ultra-thin absorber for solar cell application is designed. The absorber consists of three layers,and the difference is that the four split ring resonators made of metal gold are encrusted in the gallium arsenide(GaAs) plane in the top layer. The simulated results show that a perfect absorption in the region from 481.2 to 684.0 THz can be obtained for either transverse electric or magnetic polarization wave due to the coupling effect between the material of GaAs and gold. The metamaterial is ultra-thin, having the total thickness of56 nm, which is less than one-tenth resonance wavelength, and the absorption coefflcients at the three resonance wavelengths are above 90%. Moreover, the effective medium theory, electric field and surface current distributions are adopted to explain the physical mechanism of the absorption, and the permittivity sensing applications are also discussed. As a result, the proposed structure can be used in many areas, such as solar cell, sensors, and integrated photodetectors.     

Ultra-broadband absorber based on cascaded nanodisk arrays

An ultra-broadband perfect absorber consisting of cascaded nanodisk arrays is demonstrated by placing insulator-metal-insulator-metal nanodisks on insulator-metal film stacks. The absorber shows over 90% absorption in a wavelength range between 600 nm and 4000 nm under transverse magnetic (TM) polarization, with an average absorptivity of 91.5% and a relative absorption bandwidth of 147.8%. The analysis of the electric field and magnetic field show that the synergy of localized surface plasmons, propagating surface plasmons, and plasmonic resonant cavity modes leads to the ultra-broadband perfect absorption, which accords well with the results of impedance-matched analysis. The influences of structural parameters and different metal materials on absorption performance are discussed. Furthermore, the absorber is polarization-independent, and the absorption remains more than 90% at a wide incident angle up to 40° under TE polarization and TM polarization. The designed ultra-broadband absorber has promising prospects in photoelectric detection and imaging.     

Extremely-broad band metamaterial absorber for solar energy harvesting based on star shaped resonator

A new metamaterial absorber (MA) is investigated and shown numerically for solar energy harvesting for future solar cell applications. The structure consists of two metals and one dielectric layer having different thicknesses. Owing to this combination, the structure exhibits plasmonic resonance characteristics. In the entire spectrum of visible frequency region, the obtained results show that investigated structure has perfect absorptivity which is above 91.8%. Proposed structure also has 99.87% absorption at 613.94 THz and 99% absorption between 548 and 669 THz. The proposed structure also shows both polarization and angle independency for the entire visible region. The MA based solar cell proposes high absorption with an upper ratio of 90% in the widest range of visible spectrum comparing to the studies in literature. Hence, the proposed metamaterial absorber solar cells can be used for invisibility in entire spectrum of visible light. The absorption characteristics of the solar absorber are also investigated for infrared and ultraviolet region. The enhancement of absorption of the structure will provide new type of sensors in these frequency ranges.