Interdigitated terahertz metamaterial sensors: design with the dielectric perturbation theory

Lei Cao; Fanqi Meng; Esra Özdemir; Yannik Loth; Merle Richter; Anna Katharina Wigger; Maira Beatriz Pérez Sosa; Alaa Jabbar Jumaah; Shihab Al-Daffaie; Peter Haring Bolívar; Hartmut G. Roskos

doi:10.1364/PRJ.516228

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 6, 1115(2024)

Interdigitated terahertz metamaterial sensors: design with the dielectric perturbation theory

Lei Cao^1,2, Fanqi Meng^2、*, Esra Özdemir², Yannik Loth³, Merle Richter³, Anna Katharina Wigger³, Maira Beatriz Pérez Sosa⁴, Alaa Jabbar Jumaah⁴, Shihab Al-Daffaie⁴, Peter Haring Bolívar³, and Hartmut G. Roskos^2,5

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Physikalisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

³University of Siegen, Institute for High Frequency and Quantum Electronics, Siegen, Germany

⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands

⁵e-mail: roskos@physik.uni-frankfurt.de

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Dec. 15, 2023

Accepted: Mar. 4, 2024

Published Online: May. 17, 2024

The Author Email: Fanqi Meng (fmeng@physik.uni-frankfurt.de)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.516228

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