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Dual-controllable Plasmon-induced Transparency Based on Active Borophene Metasurface in the Near-infrared Region

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A tunable and switchable plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) effect in the near-infrared region (NIR) is achieved in a borophene-based metasurface, which consists of a periodic array of parallel double-layer borophene nanoribbons (BNRs). The upper- and lower-layer BNRs fulfill two plasmonic bright modes exciting and coupling for PIT phenomenon generation. By changing borophene electron density, the PIT window can be not only tuned to varying resonance frequency, but also adjusted for switching modulation. The calculation results reveal that as the electron density increases from 2.4 × 1019 to 5.6 × 1019 m−2, the PIT resonance frequency correspondingly shifts from 150 to 220 THz, and a maximum amplitude modulation depth (MD) of the PIT window reaches 98.3% at 193.55 THz (\(\lambda =1.55\;\mu \mathrm{m}\)). Moreover, the slow light characteristics of the proposed metasurface are analyzed in detail using the well-controlled group delay. Such a switchable and broadband tunable metadevice can expand the applications for PIT effect in active slow light, plasmonic sensing, and optical modulator areas.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12004080, 61705046) and Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou (202201010540).

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    Hui Zhang, Ao Wu, Kunpeng Xiao, Huan Jiang & Weiren Zhao

  2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Hui Zhang, Huan Jiang & Weiren Zhao

  3. School of Electronic Information, Huzhou College, Huzhou, 313000, China

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H.Z.: model design, investigation, methodology, and writing—revision and editing. A.W.: data curation, software handling, and original draft writing. K.X.: validation and data analysis. X.H.: conceptualization, comment, and revision. H.J. and W. Z.: reviewing, editing, and supervision. All authors read and reviewed the manuscript.

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Zhang, H., Wu, A., Xiao, K. et al. Dual-controllable Plasmon-induced Transparency Based on Active Borophene Metasurface in the Near-infrared Region. Plasmonics 18, 761–768 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-01801-4

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