Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials with Germanium Telluride Components

Abstract

Terahertz (THz) technology is an emerging field with many exciting applications. THz waves can be used to locate explosives and illicit drugs in security applications, or DNA and other molecule resonances in medical applications. THz frequencies represent the next level of modern, high-speed computing, but they also can be used for covert battlefield communications links. Metamaterials are an integral part of THz technology because they can be used to create exotic material properties permittivities and permeabilities in a part of the frequency spectrum that is otherwise rather empty and passive. This work aims to acquire a fuller understanding of THz metamaterials in terms of background and theory, and then use this understanding to create a few novel, actively tunable structures using the phase-change material germanium telluride.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2016
Accession Number
AD1053825

Entities

People

  • Christopher H. Kodama

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Fabrication
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Metamaterial Absorbers
  • Metamaterials
  • Micromachining
  • Negative Index Metamaterials
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Polaritons
  • Refractive Index
  • Semiconductors
  • Terahertz Metamaterials
  • Terahertz Radiation
  • Tunable Metamaterials

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics