Dual tunable plasmon-induced transparency based on silicon-air grating coupled graphene structure in terahertz metamaterial.

A graphene plasmonic structure consists of three graphene layers mingled with a silicon-air grating is proposed. We theoretically predict and numerically simulate the plasmon-induced transparency effect in this system at terahertz wavelengths, and a dual plasmon-induced transparency peaks can be successfully tuned by virtually shifting the desired Fermi energy on graphene layers. We investigate the surface plasmon dispersion relation by means of analytic calculations, and we can achieve the numerical solution of propagation constant got by the dispersion relation. A suitable theoretical model is established to study spectral features in the plasmonic graphene system, and the theoretical results agree well with the simulations. The proposed model and findings may provide guidance for fundamental research of highly tunable optoelectronic devices.

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