Realization of mid-infrared graphene hyperbolic metamaterials

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公開日
2016-02-04
権利情報
  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
DOI
  • 10.1038/ncomms10568
公開者
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

説明

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>While metal is the most common conducting constituent element in the fabrication of metamaterials, graphene provides another useful building block, that is, a truly two-dimensional conducting sheet whose conductivity can be controlled by doping. Here we report the experimental realization of a multilayer structure of alternating graphene and Al<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> layers, a structure similar to the metal-dielectric multilayers commonly used in creating visible wavelength hyperbolic metamaterials. Chemical vapour deposited graphene rather than exfoliated or epitaxial graphene is used, because layer transfer methods are easily applied in fabrication. We employ a method of doping to increase the layer conductivity, and our analysis shows that the doped chemical vapour deposited graphene has good optical properties in the mid-infrared range. We therefore design the metamaterial for mid-infrared operation; our characterization with an infrared ellipsometer demonstrates that the metamaterial experiences an optical topological transition from elliptic to hyperbolic dispersion at a wavelength of 4.5 μm.</jats:p>

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  • Nature Communications

    Nature Communications 7 (1), 10568-, 2016-02-04

    Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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