All-dielectric metamaterial analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency and its sensing application in terahertz range.

A novel electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) all-dielectric metamaterial is proposed, fabricated, and characterized. The unit cell of the proposed metamaterial comprises of two asymmetric split ring resonators (a-SRRs) positioned with a mirror symmetry. The asymmetric nature of a-SRRs results from the length difference of two arcs. Optical properties of the fabricated metamaterial are investigated numerically using finite difference method, as well as experimentally using a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The results confirm that the proposed metamaterial exhibits an EIT transparent window in the frequency range around 0.78THz with a Q-factor of ~75.7 and a time-delay up to ~28.9ps. Theoretical investigations show that EIT effects in our metamaterial are achieved by hybridizing two bright modes in the same unit cell, which are aroused by the excitation of magnetic moments. We also confirm that the proposed metamaterial has great potential for sensing applications with high sensitivity and high figure of merit (FOM), which guarantees potential applications in in situ chemical and biological sensing.

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