阅读说明：本技术 一种基于狄拉克半金属微结构的太赫兹波电控调制方法 (Terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on Dirac semimetal microstructure ) 是由 何晓勇 于 2020-07-21 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种基于狄拉克半金属微结构的太赫兹波电控调制方法,通过基于狄拉克半金属微结构的太赫兹波调制器进行实现,太赫兹波调制器包括聚合物柔性衬底、外延层、绝缘层和狄拉克半金属微结构,狄拉克半金属微结构上设置有金薄层和铬薄层,铬薄层设置在金薄层上,外延层设置在聚合物柔性衬底上,绝缘层设置在外延层上,狄拉克半金属微结构为太赫兹波调制器的有源区,设置在绝缘层上,狄拉克半金属微结构和外延层之间施加有外电压,改变对应的费米能级,从而调节共振谱线的波形。与现有技术相比,本发明具有提高幅值调制深度和频率调制深度、制作工艺更加简单、可行性更好等优点。(The invention relates to a terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on a Dirac semimetal microstructure, which is realized by a terahertz wave modulator based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure, wherein the terahertz wave modulator comprises a polymer flexible substrate, an epitaxial layer, an insulating layer and the Dirac semimetal microstructure, a gold thin layer and a chromium thin layer are arranged on the Dirac semimetal microstructure, the chromium thin layer is arranged on the gold thin layer, the epitaxial layer is arranged on the polymer flexible substrate, the insulating layer is arranged on the epitaxial layer, the Dirac semimetal microstructure is an active area of the terahertz wave modulator and is arranged on the insulating layer, and an external voltage is applied between the Dirac semimetal microstructure and the epitaxial layer to change the corresponding Fermi level so as to adjust the waveform of a resonance spectrum. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages of improved amplitude modulation depth and frequency modulation depth, simpler manufacturing process, better feasibility and the like.)

1. The terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure is characterized by being realized by a terahertz wave modulator based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure, wherein the terahertz wave modulator comprises a polymer flexible substrate (1), an epitaxial layer (2), an insulating layer (3) and the Dirac semimetal microstructure (4), a gold thin layer and a chromium thin layer (5) are arranged on the Dirac semimetal microstructure (4), the chromium thin layer (6) is arranged on the gold thin layer (1), the epitaxial layer (2) is arranged on the polymer flexible substrate (1), the insulating layer (3) is arranged on the epitaxial layer (2), the Dirac semimetal microstructure (4) is an active area of the terahertz wave modulator and is arranged on the insulating layer (3), and an external voltage is applied between the Dirac semimetal microstructure (4) and the epitaxial layer (2), the corresponding fermi level is changed to adjust the waveform of the resonance line.

2. The terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on the dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dirac semimetal microstructure (4) is made of 3D dirac semimetal.

3. The electronically controlled modulation method of terahertz waves based on a dirac semimetal microstructure according to claim 1, characterized in that a semiconductor is disposed in the epitaxial layer (2) as a back electrode of the terahertz wave modulator.

4. The electronically controlled modulation method of terahertz waves based on the dirac semimetal microstructure according to claim 3, wherein the semiconductor is silicon.

5. The terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on the dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the structural unit of the dirac semimetal microstructure (4) is cross-shaped, open-ring-shaped or oval.

6. The terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on the dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the material of the microstructure unit of the dirac semimetal microstructure (4) is cadmium arsenide.

7. The terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the insulating layer (3) is made of SiO₂Or Al₂O₃。

8. The terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on the dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the polymer flexible substrate (1) is made of polystyrene or polytetrafluoroethylene.

9. The terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the thickness of the Dirac semimetal microstructure (4) is 100-1000 nm.

10. The electronically controlled modulation method of terahertz waves based on the dirac semimetal microstructure according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the insulating layer (3) is 10-100nm, the thickness of the epitaxial layer (2) is 1-10nm, and the thickness of the polymer flexible substrate (1) is 1-10 nm.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor photoelectric materials and devices, in particular to a terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on a Dirac semimetal microstructure.

Background

Terahertz (THz) waves have transient property, low energy and coherence, and in recent years, have shown unique advantages and broad prospects in numerous fields such as astronomical observation, wireless high-speed and ultra-wideband communication and public safety detection. For example, terahertz wave communication has the advantages of good frequency bandwidth, confidentiality, high transmission speed and the like, is suitable for high-speed wireless communication, and can reach the transmission rate of 1-10 Gb/s. Achieving effective manipulation of THz wave characteristics (such as frequency, amplitude, phase and polarization direction) is very important and essential to promote further development of THz technology, and is one of the current research hotspots and core contents. However, since the wavelength is long and the absorption of carriers is very serious, it is difficult to find a dielectric material that strongly responds to THz waves, and thus it is difficult to realize effective control of terahertz waves.

The periodic metamaterials (MMs) are artificial composite structural materials formed by a plurality of materials, the properties and functions of the materials depend on the geometric shapes and spatial distribution of structural units, and a proper superstructure is designed according to actual requirements to realize regulation and control of incident THz waves. The electronic structure of the constituent material is one of the key factors determining the performance of the functional device, and the common metamaterial mainly comprises metal, semiconductor (such as InSb), dielectric (Si, SiO)₂Titanate), superconductor (YBCO), and two-dimensional nano-material (such as graphene, black phosphorus, and MoS)₂Isovalent transition group sulfides) and topological materials. The metal metamaterial is easy to process and design, but has high carrier concentration, large loss and poor tunable performance, and is very sensitive to structural parameters. The electromagnetic resonance intensity of all-dielectric metamaterials such as silicon, titanate and the like is weak, the thickness of a device is high, the device is not suitable for manufacturing a frequency selection surface with a compact structure, and the modulation speed and the quality factor are difficult to take into consideration.

As an important topological material, the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of a topological semi-metal (DSM) have a small overlap, which is sensitive to factors such as device structure, dielectric environment and fermi level. The spin-orbit coupling of the graphene is not too strong, the energy gap opened near the Dirac point is very small, the valence band and the conduction band are approximately contacted, and the graphene can be regarded as an ideal two-dimensional Dirac semimetal. Through modes of an external electric field, a magnetic field or thermal excitation and the like, the photoelectric property of the graphene device can be flexibly adjusted from a THz wave region to a near infrared light region. At present, on the basis of a whole graphene-metal small hole array structure, the abnormal transmission effect of the THz wave band is researched, the amplitude modulation depth of a transmission line can reach more than 50% by changing the Fermi level, the absorption of the THz wave of a near field is improved by more than 7 times, and the modulation speed is about hundreds of MHz. On the basis of the whole graphene-metal split ring composite microstructure, the effective control of the incident THz wave is realized by adopting a method of combining light control and electric control, and the amplitude modulation depth can reach more than 60% by only using 1V bias voltage.

But the device is limited by the characteristics of an ultrathin structure, and the two-dimensional material modulation devices such as graphene have the defects of obvious anisotropy, easiness in being interfered by an external electromagnetic environment, lack of control space and the like. Compared with two-dimensional nano materials such as graphene and the like, the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal has an electronic structure system with zero band gap and linear dispersion relation in a three-dimensional momentum space, and has a plurality of excellent characteristics. Firstly, because of the protection of the crystal symmetrical structure, the surface of the Dirac semimetal has no surplus electrons, the scattering loss is small, the physical property is stable, and the electron mobility is higher. For example cadmium arsenide with carrier mobility up to 9 x 10⁶cm²V^-1S^-1(5K) And is about 45 times as good as graphene over other common semiconductors. And secondly, the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal breaks through the constraint in the aspect of geometric dimension, the thickness can reach hundreds of nanometers to several micrometers, the experimental process preparation difficulty is obviously reduced, the mutual coupling with incident waves is also obviously improved, and the method has a strong mode limiting effect. More importantly, the carrier concentration in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal is obviously changed along with the Fermi level, so that the equivalent capacitance and the inductance are greatly changed, the modulation depth is favorably improved, and the efficient dynamic regulation and control of the resonance spectral line frequency, the bandwidth and the electromagnetic coupling mode are realized. The surface plasmon resonance frequency supported by the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal is just positioned in the THz wave band, and the method is very suitable for developing a high-performance tunable device. At present, the dynamic adjustment characteristics of THz waves are researched, and results show that the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal microstructure can excite a strong surface plasmon resonance mode, the quality factor of a transmission resonance line can reach about 3.7, the carrier scattering time at room temperature can reach 1 picosecond, but the influence of Fermi level change on the resonance line is not considered, and the electric control modulation of the THz waves cannot be realized.

Chinese patents 201910281219.6 and 201910281948.1 disclose surface plasmons and transmission grating structures based on dirac semimetal multilayer structures, which belong to dirac semimetal surface plasmons devices, but focus on the development of THz radiation sources.

In addition, the quality factor (Q-factor) is an important parameter of the formants, and represents the width of the spectral line. At present, the THz wave adjusting device is influenced by ohmic loss of a metal metamaterial and radiation loss of a medium metamaterial, and quality factors are difficult to improve. The Fano resonance effect has typical asymmetric narrow-band spectral lines, is very sensitive to the change of surrounding media, and is very suitable for developing a high-quality factor terahertz wave modulator. A surface Plasmon Induced Transparency (PIT) phenomenon similar to a Fano effect can be generated in a metamaterial structural system, namely a bright state mode and a dark state mode are subjected to interference coupling in a resonant transparent window to form a narrow transmission peak, so that the radiation loss is obviously reduced, and the metamaterial has the advantages of flexible structural design, high resonant line quality factor, capability of working at room temperature and the like.

At present, the terahertz modulator can not meet the requirements of practical application, and a tunable device which has good research and development performance (high quality factor, good adjustable performance and large modulation depth) and simple preparation process is very important for further development of the THz technology.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide a terahertz wave electric control modulation method based on a Dirac semimetal microstructure, so that a resonance spectral line with higher excitation intensity is excited, the limitation on the thickness of two-dimensional regulating and controlling devices such as graphene and the like is overcome, the manufacturing process is simpler, and the feasibility is better.

The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:

the terahertz wave electronic control modulation method based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure is realized through a terahertz wave modulator based on the Dirac semimetal microstructure, the terahertz wave modulator comprises a polymer flexible substrate, an epitaxial layer, an insulating layer and the Dirac semimetal microstructure, a gold thin layer and a chromium thin layer are arranged on the Dirac semimetal microstructure, the chromium thin layer is arranged on the gold thin layer, the epitaxial layer is arranged on the polymer flexible substrate, the insulating layer is arranged on the epitaxial layer, the Dirac semimetal microstructure is an active area of the terahertz wave modulator and is arranged on the insulating layer, an external voltage is applied between the Dirac semimetal microstructure and the epitaxial layer, a corresponding Fermi level is changed, and therefore the waveform of a resonance spectrum line is adjusted.

The material of the dirac semimetal microstructure is 3D dirac semimetal.

And a semiconductor is arranged in the epitaxial layer and is used as a back electrode of the terahertz wave modulator.

Further, the semiconductor is silicon.

The structural unit of the Dirac semimetal microstructure is in a cross shape, an open ring shape or an oval shape.

The material of the microstructure unit of the dirac semimetal microstructure is cadmium arsenide.

The insulating layer is made of SiO₂Or Al₂O₃。

The polymer flexible substrate is made of polystyrene or polytetrafluoroethylene, the polystyrene or polytetrafluoroethylene is a low-refractive-index polymer, and meanwhile, the transmittance is improved by reducing the thickness of the polymer flexible substrate.

The thickness of the terahertz wave modulator is 100-1000 nm.

The thickness of the insulating layer is 10-100nm, the thickness of the epitaxial layer is 1-10nm, and the thickness of the polymer flexible substrate is 1-10 nm.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. the invention takes the Dirac semimetal microstructure as the active area of the modulator, changes the Fermi level by adjusting the external bias voltage, realizes the adjustment of the resonance spectral line frequency and the wave form, and has higher proportion of amplitude modulation depth and frequency modulation depth.

2. The 3D dirac semimetal used in the invention has higher carrier mobility and Fermi speed, effectively breaks through the limitation of graphene as a two-dimensional regulation device on the thickness, provides more design space and freedom for device development, and obviously reduces the difficulty of the manufacturing process while obviously improving the modulation performance.

3. The manufacturing process is simpler, the feasibility is better, and the parameters of the Dirac semimetal microstructure can be selected and optimized, so that the larger modulation depth, the lower loss and the higher quality factor can be further obtained.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a structural unit of a Dirac semi-metal microstructure of the present invention, wherein FIG. 2(a) is an open ring shape, FIG. 2(b) is a cross shape, FIG. 2(c) is an oval shape, and FIG. 2(d) is an asymmetric oval shape;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating modulation simulation results according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a graph showing the results of the Fano resonance effect transmission lines at different Fermi levels according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing simulation results of quality factors and optimization factors in the Fano resonance effect according to the present invention.

Reference numerals:

1-a polymeric flexible substrate; 2-an epitaxial layer; 3-an insulating layer; 4-dirac semimetal microstructure; 5-gold thin layer; 6-chromium thin layer.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in detail below with reference to the figures and specific embodiments. The present embodiment is implemented on the premise of the technical solution of the present invention, and a detailed implementation manner and a specific operation process are given, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments.

As shown in fig. 1, a terahertz wave electrically controlled modulation method based on a dirac semimetal microstructure, which has a higher proportion of amplitude modulation depth and frequency modulation depth, is implemented by a terahertz wave modulator based on a dirac semimetal microstructure, the terahertz wave modulator comprises a polymer flexible substrate 1, an epitaxial layer 2, an insulating layer 3 and a dirac semimetal microstructure 4, a gold thin layer 5 and a chromium thin layer 6 are arranged on the dirac semimetal microstructure 4, the chromium thin layer 6 is arranged on the gold thin layer 1, the epitaxial layer 2 is arranged on the polymer flexible substrate 1, the insulating layer 3 is arranged on the epitaxial layer 2, the dirac semimetal microstructure 4 is an active region of the terahertz wave modulator and is arranged on the insulating layer 3, a terahertz incident wave signal is vertically input from the terahertz wave modulator, the dirac semimetal microstructure forms a resonance line, an external voltage is applied between the dirac semimetal microstructure 4 and the epitaxial layer 2, the corresponding fermi level is changed to adjust the waveform of the resonance line.

The dirac semimetal microstructure 4 is made of 3D dirac semimetal, and the complex conductivity of the 3D dirac semimetal is approximately expressed as:

wherein g (E) ═ n (-E) -n (E), n (E) is a fermi distribution function, E_FIs the Fermi level, g is the degree of degeneracy, k_FIn order to be a fermi momentum,v_Fat a Fermi speed, E_cCut-off energy, σ, being the Dirac linear dispersion relation_DSM(omega) is the complex conductivity of the 3D dirac semimetal,

to approximate the planck constant, T is the temperature, and the complex dielectric constant of the 3D dirac semimetal is expressed as:

_DSM＝_∞+iσ_DSM/ω₀

wherein the content of the first and second substances,_∞the dielectric constant at which the frequency approaches infinity,₀ω is the angular frequency for the vacuum dielectric constant.

The dirac semi-metal microstructure 4 comprises a plurality of unit devices which are arranged periodically.

The epitaxial layer 2 is provided with a semiconductor as a back electrode of the terahertz wave modulator, and the semiconductor is silicon.

As shown in fig. 2, the structural unit of the dirac semimetal microstructure 4 is cross-shaped, open-ring-shaped, oval or asymmetric oval.

The microstructure unit of the Dirac semimetal microstructure 4 is taken as an x-y plane, the material of the microstructure unit of the Dirac semimetal microstructure 4 is cadmium arsenide, the boundary condition of the polarization direction of an incident wave is taken as an ideal electric conductor (PEC), the other direction is taken as an ideal magnetic conductor (PMC), the z direction is the direction of the incident wave vector, and the boundary condition is open setting.

The insulating layer 3 is made of SiO₂Or Al₂O₃。

The material of the polymer flexible substrate 1 is polystyrene or polytetrafluoroethylene.

The thickness of the terahertz wave modulator is 100-1000 nm.

The thickness of the insulating layer 3 is 10-100nm, the thickness of the epitaxial layer 2 is 1-10nm, and the thickness of the polymer flexible substrate 1 is 1-10 nm.