Thermal metasurface with tunable narrowband absorption from a hybrid graphene/silicon photonic crystal resonance

Abstract

We report the design of a tunable, narrowband, thermal metasurface that employs a hybrid resonance generated by coupling a tunable permittivity graphene ribbon to a silicon photonic crystal. The gated graphene ribbon array, proximitized to a high quality factor Si photonic crystal supporting a guided mode resonance, exhibits tunable narrowband absorbance lineshapes (Q > 10,000). Actively tuned Fermi level modulation in graphene with applied gate voltage between high absorptivity and low absorptivity states gives rise to absorbance on/off ratios exceeding 60. We employ coupled-mode theory as a computationally efficient approach to elements of the metasurface design, demonstrating an orders of magnitude speedup over typical finite element computational methods.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2023
Source ID
10.1364/oe.470198

Entities

People

  • Arun Nagpal
  • Harry Atwater
  • Ming Zhou
  • Ognjen Ilic
  • Zongfu Yu

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Stanford University
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene