Terahertz propagation properties of free-standing woven-steel-mesh metamaterials: Pass-bands and signatures of abnormal group velocities

SABAH C., Thomson M. D., Meng F., Tzanova S., Roskos H. G.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol.110, no.6, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 110 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Doi Number: 10.1063/1.3638445
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus Affiliated: No

Abstract

We explore steel-mesh structures, which are commercially available as insets of chemical particle filters, in terms of their metamaterial properties below 1 THz, including both single- and multi-layer structures. Their pass-band characteristics are very similar to those reported for hole arrays in metal films, exhibiting power transmission as high as 88% for the lowest transmission band of single-layer structures. The transmission minima are explained in terms of the Rayleigh-Wood anomaly. The phase properties of the transmitted THz pulses reveal negative group delays of several picoseconds, i.e., abnormal group velocities, in spectral regions between pass-bands. (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3638445]