ITO-Based Electrically Tunable Metasurface for Active Control of Light Transmission.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi'an 710129, China.

Published: October 2024

In recent years, the rapid development of dynamically tunable metasurfaces has provided a new avenue for flexible control of optical properties. This paper introduces a transmission-type electrically tunable metasurface, employing a series of subwavelength-scale silicon (Si) nanoring structures with an intermediate layer of AlO-ITO-AlO. This design allows the metasurface to induce strong Mie resonance when transverse electric (TE) waves are normally incident. When a bias voltage is applied, the interaction between light and matter is enhanced due to the formation of an electron accumulation layer at the ITO-AlO interface, thereby altering the resonance characteristics of the metasurface. This design not only avoids the absorption loss of metal nanostructures and has a large modulation depth, but also shows compatibility with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.

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