paper 150304105639

Published: 2015-07-09

Semiconductor Temperature Tunable Metameterial for Terahertz Applications

Andrey A. Bogdanov,

Andrey A. Bogdanov

Harbin Engineering University, China

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Kirill Koshelev

Australian National University, Australia

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Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9，Page(s)978-982

Abstract

We introduce a new model of homogeneous temperature tunable THz metamaterial with controllable frequency range of hyperbolic dispersion based on semiconductor superlattice with doped quantum wells. We develop a theory of quantum homogenization which is based on the Kubo formula for conductivity. The proposed approach takes into account the wave functions of the carriers, their distribution function and energy spectrum. We show that the components of the dielectric tensor of the semiconductor metamaterial can be efficiently manipulated by external temperature.

Citation

Andrey A. Bogdanov, and Kirill Koshelev, "Semiconductor Temperature Tunable Metameterial for Terahertz Applications," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9，Page(s)978-982

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