Composite phase modulated beam steering controllable reflective metasurface

Wei Tao; Zhang Yu-Jie; Ge Hong-Yi; Jiang Yu-Ying; Wu Xu-Yang; Sun Zhen-Yu; Ji Xiao-Di; Bu Yu-Wei; Jia Ke-Ke

doi:10.7498/aps.73.20240764

Abstract

Terahertz metasurface functional devices as an effective method to control terahertz waves have attracted extensive attention from researchers. In order to enhance the functionality and flexibility of the metasurface and adapt to diverse application scenarios and demands, a beam-steering controllable reflective metasurface is designed by combining the Pancharatnam-Berry phase principle and the phase change material vanadium dioxide in this work. The metasurface unit consists of five layers, they being the top layer that is a metal patterned layer, the third layer that is made of vanadium dioxide and located between the dielectric layers with different thickness, the dielectric layer that is made of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), and the bottom layer that serves as a metal reflective layer. The metasurface units are rotated based on the Pancharatnam-Berry phase principle to obtain four metasurface units with fixed phase differences in between, after which the metasurface units are arranged in two dimensions based on the generalized Snell reflection law to obtain the desired phase-gradient deflected reflection beam. The insulating state-metallic state transition of the vanadium dioxide layer on the metasurface can change the phase gradient of the preset metasurface, thereby realizing the on/off function of deflection. The simulation results show that when the vanadium dioxide is in the insulating state, the phase gradient of the designed metasurface appears, and the metasurface can deflect the vertically incident circularly polarized wave with specific angle anomalies in a operating band of 1.1–2.0 THz; when the vanadium dioxide is in the metallic state, for the same operating band of the same metasurface, the phase gradient of the metasurface disappears, and the metasurface mirror reflects the vertically incident circularly polarized waves, thereby realizing the function switching. This design provides new possibilities for modulating the terahertz reflected beam, which will have potential applications in terahertz wireless communication and radar systems.

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College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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School of Software, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou 451191, China
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School of Artifical Intelligence and Big Data, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Corresponding author: Ge Hong-Yi, gehongyi2004@163.com

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62271191, 61975053), the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 222300420040), the Innovative Funds Plan of Henan University of Technology (Grant No. 2021ZKCJ04), the Key Science and Technology Program of Henan Province, China (Grant Nos. 222102110246, 222103810072), and the Program for Science & Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province, China (Grant Nos. 23HASTIT024, 22HASTIT017).

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图 1 超表面单元　(a)三维示意图; (b)俯视图; (c)正视图; (d)旋转结构

Figure 1. Metasurface units: (a) 3D schematic diagram; (b) top view; (c) front view; (d) rotating structure.

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图 2 x极化波和y极化波垂直入射时, 超表面单元的同极化反射幅度(a)和相位(b)

Figure 2. The co-polarized reflection amplitude (a) and phase (b) of the metasurface unit when x-polarized and y-polarized waves are vertically incident.

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图 3 VO₂处于绝缘态, LCP波垂直入射时, 不同旋转角α对应的超表面单元的同极化反射幅度(a)和相位(b)

Figure 3. VO₂ is in an insulating state, with different rotation angles when LCP waves are vertically incident α, the amplitude (a) and phase (b) of co-polarized reflection of corresponding metasurface units.

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图 4 表面电流分布　(a)—(d) VO₂处于绝缘态; (e)—(h) VO₂处于金属态

Figure 4. Surface current distribution: (a)–(d) VO₂ is in an insulating state; (e)–(h) VO₂ is in a metallic state.

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图 5 不同入射角度下, 线极化波激励下超表面单元的反射相位和幅度　(a), (b) VO₂处于绝缘态时, 不同入射角度下的幅度变化和相位变化; (c), (d) VO₂处于金属态时, 不同入射角度下的幅度变化和相位变化

Figure 5. Reflection phase and amplitude of metasurface elements under linearly polarized wave excitation at different incident angles: (a), (b) Amplitude variation and phase change of VO₂ at different incident angles when it is in an insulating state; (c), (d) amplitude variation and phase change of VO₂ at different incident angles when it is in a metallic state.

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图 6 2-bit反射编码超表面, LCP波垂直入射　(a)超表面排布示意图; (b)超表面结构; (c) 1.1 THz处的三维远场散射图; (d) 1.1 THz处的归一化反射振幅图; (e) 2.0 THz处的三维远场散射图; (f) 2.0 THz处的归一化反射振幅图

Figure 6. 2-bit reflection encoding metasurface, LCP wave vertically incident: (a) Schematic diagram of metasurface layout; (b) metasurface structure; (c) 3D far-field scattering map at 1.1 THz; (d) normalized reflection amplitude map at 1.1 THz; (e) 3D far-field scattering map at 2.0 THz; (f) normalized reflection amplitude map at 2.0 THz.

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图 7 归一化远场辐射图

Figure 7. Normalized far-field radiation pattern.

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图 8 归一化远场辐射图, 1.6 THz处不同入射角对应的反射角

Figure 8. Normalized far-field radiation pattern, reflection angles corresponding to different incident angles at 1.6 THz.

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图 9 反射超表面　(a)超表面相位梯度改变示意图; (b)三维远场散射图

Figure 9. Reflective metasurface: (a) Schematic diagram of phase gradient change on metasurface; (b) 3D far-field scattering map.

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表 1 超表面单元的主要参数

Table 1. Main parameters of metasurface units.

Parameter D R₁ R₂ L₁ L₂ K₁ K₂ T₁ T₂ T₃ H₁ H₂

Value/μm 110 10 19 60 51 8 8 0.2 0.3 0.2 3 26

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表 2 超表面单元

Table 2. Metasurface units.

α 45° 0° 135° 90°

俯视图
2-bit 00 01 10 11

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[6]	Zhou J, Zhao X, Huang G R, Yang X, Zhang Y, Zhan X Y, Tian H Y, Xiong Y, Wang Y X, Fu W L 2021 ACS Sens. 6 1884 Google Scholar
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