Tunable dual-band subwavelength imaging with a wire medium slab loaded with nanostructured graphene metasurfaces

• Published in: AIP advances Vol. 5; no. 7; pp. 077108 - 077108-18
• Main Authors: Forouzmand, Ali, Yakovlev, Alexander B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melville American Institute of Physics 01-07-2015; AIP Publishing LLC
• Subjects: Boundary conditions; Evanescent waves; Frequencies; Graphene; Imaging; Lenses; Metasurfaces; Plasmons; Stability; Wire
• ISSN: 2158-3226; 2158-3226
• DOI: 10.1063/1.4926399

In this paper, we demonstrate that a wire medium slab loaded with graphene-nanopatch metasurfaces (GNMs) enables the enhancement of evanescent waves for the subwavelength imaging at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The analysis is based on the nonlocal homogenization model for wire medium with the additional boundary condition at the connection of wires to graphene. The physical mechanism behind this lens can be described as the surface plasmons excitement at the lower and upper GNMs which are coupled by an array of metallic wires. The dual nature (capacitive/inductive) of the GNM is utilized in order to design a dual-band lens in which the unique controllable properties of graphene and the structural parameters of wire medium (WM) slab provide more degrees of freedom in controlling two operating frequency bands. The lens can support the subwavelength imaging simultaneously at two tunable distinct frequencies with the resolution better than λ/6 even if the distance between GNMs is a significant fraction of wavelength (>λ/5.5). The major future challenges in the fabrication of the lens have been demonstrated and a promising approach for the practical configuration of the lens has been proposed.