Sensing Performance of Triple-Band Terahertz Metamaterial Absorber Based on Snowflake-Shaped Resonators

被引:10
作者
Ma, Limin [1 ]
Liu, Yuhuang [1 ]
Zhu, Yongkai [1 ]
Gu, Wenhua [2 ]
机构
[1] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Automat Engn, Nanjing 211100, Peoples R China
[2] Nanjing Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Microelect, Nanjing 210094, Peoples R China
基金
中国博士后科学基金; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
terahertz; metamaterial; multi-band absorber; refractive index sensing; SENSOR; DESIGN;
D O I
10.3390/photonics9100777
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Terahertz metamaterial absorbers are important functional devices for liquid analyte detection. In contrast to general metamaterial absorbers with single-layer metasurfaces that possess only one resonant mode, a triple-band terahertz metamaterial absorber formed by a single layer of symmetrically arrayed snowflake-shaped resonators was proposed in this study. The simulation results showed that the absorption of the metamaterial absorber reached 97.43% at 0.550 THz, 79.22% at 1.249 THz, and 99.02% at 1.867 THz with narrow resonant peaks. The resonant frequencies were sensitive to the refractive index of the surrounding medium at a fixed analyte thickness, which would play an important role in the performance of the sensor for detecting changes in the surrounding refractive index. The maximum value of the refractive index sensitivity was 137.70 GHz/RIU, 306.25 GHz/RIU, and 473.86 GHz/RIU, with a figure of merit (FoM) of 3.14, 2.33, and 6.46, respectively, for refractive index values ranging from 1.0 to 2.2 under three resonant modes. It is worth noting that most of the liquid samples showed a refractive index ranging from 1.0 to 2.0. Furthermore, the identification of peanut oil, carbon disulfide, and turpentine was considered to verify that the proposed terahertz sensor could be used for high-sensitivity liquid detection and has broad development prospects in the field of detecting and sensing.
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