Wideband THz Low-Scattering Surface Based on Combination of Diffusion and Absorption

TL;DR

This paper presents a wideband, low-scattering THz metasurface using graphene patches with tunable chemical potentials, enabling dynamic control of reflection properties and significant reflection reduction across a broad spectrum.

Contribution

It introduces a novel coding metasurface with optimized graphene patches for real-time phase and amplitude control, enhancing THz wave manipulation and stealth capabilities.

Findings

Achieves over 10 dB reflection reduction from 1.02 to 2.82 THz

Demonstrates effective wave manipulation for beamforming and stealth

Maintains conformal and stealth features on curved surfaces

Abstract

In this paper, a wideband and low-scattering metasurface in terahertz (THz) is introduced. The proposed coding metasurface is composed of four different graphene square patches in one layer, which has a distinct bias voltage. By optimizing the chemical potential of each patch, the reflection phase and amplitude of a designed element can be controlled in a real-time manner. The chemical potential optimizing approach is a promising method to develop metasurfaces, which can tune the reflection phase, magnitude, or polarization dynamically at different frequencies spectrum. Indeed, by adjusting the metasurface reflection profile, the suggested device can manipulate the reflected wave. Also, this metasurface can reduce reflection energy in the wide-band spectrum. The programmable surface disperses reflected power in various directions in a first frequency band and converts incident electromagnetic waves into heat at second frequency band. The obtained results demonstrate that more than 10 dB reflection reduction can be realized over 1.02 to 2.82 THz under both TE and TM polarized wave incidences. Due to the conformal properties of the graphene monolayer, the stealth feature of the metasurface is well preserved while wrapping around a metallic curved object. This optimization method has an excellent aptitude for phase, magnitude, and polarization control in various beamforming applications at the THz spectrum for high-resolution imaging and stealth technology.