Wideband Perfect Absorption Polarization Insensitive Reconfigurable Graphene Metasurface for THz Wireless Environment

TL;DR

This paper presents a graphene-based metasurface that achieves perfect, wideband, polarization-insensitive THz absorption with reconfigurability, suitable for enhancing THz wireless communication environments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel reconfigurable graphene metasurface with perfect absorption properties across a wide bandwidth and insensitivity to polarization and incidence angle.

Findings

Achieves 100% absorption at 2.5 THz with wide bandwidth

Maintains high absorption (>95%) under oblique incidence

Demonstrates effective frequency reconfiguration without performance loss

Abstract

In this work, we investigated a simple structured graphene terahertz (THz) metasurface (MSF) with perfect absorption, wideband, polarization insensitive, oblique incidence insensitive and frequency reconfiguration. The graphene MSF structure is composed of a two-dimensional periodic array of graphene meta-atoms deposited on the silicon substrate terminated by a metal ground plane. The performance of the proposed MSF is numerically analyzed. An equivalent circuit model of the structure and its closed-form solution is introduced. The graphene MSF thin structure at 2.5 THz provides 100% of absorption with wide bandwidth, zero reflection and zero transmission at normal incidence in both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. Under oblique incidence, the absorption is maintained at higher than 95%. Moreover, the graphene MSF structure has the advantage of frequency reconfiguration. The excellent absorption performance is maintained at all reconfigurable frequencies upon reconfiguration. The results reveal the effectiveness of the THz MSF with graphene meta-atoms, which can be promising for THz wireless environment.