Terahertz beam steering: from fundamentals to applications

Y Monnai, X Lu, K Sengupta - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz …, 2023 - Springer
Free-space transmission of terahertz (THz) waves opens great opportunities for wireless
applications including sensing and communication in the 6G era and beyond. Owing to their …

A review of terahertz phase modulation from free space to guided wave integrated devices

H Zeng, S Gong, L Wang, T Zhou, Y Zhang, F Lan… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In the past ten years, terahertz technology has developed rapidly in wireless
communications, spectroscopy, and imaging. Various functional devices have been …

Electronically-controlled beam-steering through vanadium dioxide metasurfaces

MRM Hashemi, SH Yang, T Wang, N Sepúlveda… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Engineered metamaterials offer unique functionalities for manipulating the spectral and
spatial properties of electromagnetic waves in unconventional ways. Here, we report a novel …

Terahertz birefringent biomimetic aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers and conductive nanomaterials

Z Zeng, E Mavrona, D Sacré, N Kummer, J Cao… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biomimetic, lamellar, and highly porous transition-metal carbide (MXene) embedded
cellulose nanofiber (CNF) aerogels are assembled by a facile bidirectional freeze-drying …

Broadband tunable liquid crystal terahertz waveplates driven with porous graphene electrodes

L Wang, XW Lin, W Hu, GH Shao, P Chen… - Light: Science & …, 2015 - nature.com
Versatile devices, especially tunable ones, for terahertz imaging, sensing and high-speed
communication, are in high demand. Liquid crystal based components are perfect …

Graphene-assisted high-efficiency liquid crystal tunable terahertz metamaterial absorber

L Wang, S Ge, W Hu, M Nakajima, Y Lu - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, few-layer porous graphene is integrated onto the surface of a metasurface
layer to provide a uniform static electric field to efficiently control liquid crystal, thereby …

Metasurface-based optical liquid crystal cell as an ultrathin spatial phase modulator for THz applications

O Buchnev, N Podoliak, K Kaltenecker, M Walther… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A concept of an efficient ultrathin spatial phase modulator for correcting terahertz wavefronts
in transmission with subwavelength spatial resolution is experimentally demonstrated. It …

Arbitrary photo-patterning in liquid crystal alignments using DMD based lithography system

H Wu, W Hu, H Hu, X Lin, G Zhu, JW Choi… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We propose and implement a technique for arbitrary pattern fabrication in liquid crystal (LC)
alignments and local polarization control for light wavefront. A micro-lithography system with …

Recent progress of terahertz spatial light modulators: materials, principles and applications

S Guan, J Cheng, S Chang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Terahertz (THz) technology offers unparalleled opportunities in a wide variety of
applications, ranging from imaging and spectroscopy to communications and quality control …

Graphene based terahertz phase modulators

N Kakenov, MS Ergoktas, O Balci, C Kocabas - 2D Materials, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrical control of amplitude and phase of terahertz radiation (THz) is the key technological
challenge for high resolution and noninvasive THz imaging. The lack of active materials and …