Nano Focus: Thermal tunability in terahertz metamaterial achieved on strontium titanate single crystals
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in order to explore the adsorption and diffusion of small molecules in a subset of their zeolite database as well as how their predicted zeolites can be used for carbon sequestration. The researchers said that their approach “may serve as a guide for construction of analogous databases for
other materials such as metal-organic frameworks or crystal hydrates. Diversity in structures and possible functionality among these classes of materials could reveal themselves through such efforts.” Steven Trohalaki
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Thermal tunability in terahertz metamaterial achieved on strontium titanate single crystals
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VOLUME 36 • MAY 2011
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lthough split-ring resonator (SRR) based metamaterials are attractive for use in devices with novel functionalities over a large electromagnetic spectral domain, devices incorporating SRRs fall short on performance due to lack of dynamic control over their resonances. R. Singh, H.-T. Chen, and co-researchers at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, hypothesized that in most cases the frequency tuning of metamaterial resonance is accompanied with a large variation in resonance strength, which is undesirable and caused by the damping from the materials integrated in metamaterials. As reported in the April 7th issue of Optics Letters (DOI: 10.1364/ OL.36.001230; p. 1230), the researchers fabricated a planar square array of subwavelength 200-nm-thick gold electric SRRs on a 533-μm-thick single crystal (100) oriented strontium titanate (STO) substrate. They measured the resonant behavior in the THz frequency range of the metamaterial as a function of temperature using a time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) system incorporated with a continuous flow liquid helium cryostat. The researchers observed a 43% shift in resonance frequency after
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At various temperatures, (a) THz pulse in the time-domain after transmission through the metamaterial and a bare strontium titanate (STO) substrate, (b) normalized THz transmission amplitude spectra through the metamaterial, (c) refractive index of the STO substrate as a function of THz frequency, and (d) a comparison of resonance frequency and inverse of STO refractive index. Inset to (a) is the microscopy image of a metamaterial unit cell. Reproduced with permission from Opt. Lett. 36 (7) (2011) DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001230; p. 1230. © 2011 Optical Society of America.
cooling the metamaterial from 409 K to 150 K with less disparity in resonance strength. They attributed this behavior to the temperature-dependant dielectric
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