Flexible properties of THz graphene bowtie metamaterials structures

Tunable propagation properties of graphene asymmetrical bowtie metamaterials (MMs) structures have been investigated in the terahertz regime, including the effects of graphene Fermi levels, structural parameters and operation frequencies. Because of its thin film thickness, the strong resonant curves of the proposed graphene MMs structures are dominated by the plasmonic mode instead of the Fabry-Perot mode for the metal structures. Compared with existing tunable graphene devices, the sharp Fano resonant curve manifests a large Q-factor of more than 40. In addition, as the width of graphene bowtie aperture increases, the resonant frequency dip shifts low frequency, and the resonant amplitude and figure of merit increase. The results are very helpful in order to understand the tunable mechanisms of graphene components and design high sensitivity functional devices, sensors, modulators, and antenna.