A method of rapidly designing graphene-based terahertz diffusion surface

Wang Jian; Zhang Chao-Yue; Yao Zhao-Yu; Zhang Chi; Xu Feng; Yang Yuan

doi:10.7498/aps.70.20201034

Abstract

Electromagnetic diffusion surface can reduce the radar cross section, thus profiting stealth of targets. Terahertz diffusion surface has a wide prospect in the field of next-generation radar and communication, promising to act as a kind of intelligent smart skin. In this paper, utilizing the excellent tunable properties of graphene in the terahertz band, a hybrid structure of graphene and metal which has inverse phase response of reflecting waves is proposed. The reflection phase switches in the mechanism of resonant modes and can be controlled efficiently by the bias voltage. Meanwhile, unlike metal materials, graphene has a non-negligible loss characteristic, which leads the response amplitudes corresponding to the two different switching states to be inconsistent with each other. According to the interference and superposition principle of electromagnetic field, it is not conducive to eliminating the coherent far-field, leading to an unsatisfactory diffusion result. In this paper, we present a “molecular” structure by secondary combination of the above-mentioned reverse phase element states, and take it as the basic element of the diffusion surface. Finally, we use particle swarm optimization to optimize the arrangement of “molecular” structures. The final diffusion surface consists of a combinatorial design of “molecules” rather than randomly distributed reflection units. In addition, molecules designed artificially have similar amplitude responses but different phase responses, which improves the convergence speed and reduces the computation quantity during algorithm evolution. The method of designing molecular structure, described in this paper, is simple, rapid and widely applicable, which effectively improves the amplitude-to-phase modulation ability of graphene metasurface against electromagnetic waves. When diffuse reflection optimization is applied to most of graphene metasurfaces, the method described in this paper can achieve the results that are the same as or even better than the results after a large number of iterations of traditional particle swarm optimization in the most computation-efficient manner. The results show that the dynamic diffusion surface designed by this method has the advantages of fast convergence speed and small far-field peak.

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1.
National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of RF Integration and Micro-Assembly Technology, College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
2.
College of Instrumental Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Corresponding author: Xu Feng, feng.xu@njupt.edu.cn

Funds: Project suported by the Open Fund of the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of RF Integration and Micro-Assembly Technology, China (Grant No. KFJJ20180205), the Science and Research Start-up Fund for Introducing Talents of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China (Grant No. NY218113), and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication Science Foundation, China (Grant No. NY219077).

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图 1 (a) 石墨烯漫反射表面单元结构; (b) 谐振/非谐振状态下电流分布

Figure 1. (a) Unit cell of graphene diffuse reflecting surface; (b) the current distribution under resonance/non-resonance condition.

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图 2 石墨烯表面阻抗色散曲线　(a) 实部; (b) 虚部

Figure 2. Dispersion curves of graphene surface impedance: (a) Real part; (b) imaginary part.

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图 3 石墨烯漫反射表面单元结构的反射幅度(a)与相位(b)响应

Figure 3. Reflecting response of amplitude (a) and phase (b) of graphene diffuse reflecting surface unit cell.

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图 4 石墨烯化学势不同情况下单元结构的方向图函数　(a) 0 eV; (b) 0.8 eV

Figure 4. Pattern function of unit cell under different chemical potentials of graphene: (a) 0 eV; (b) 0.8 eV.

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图 5 石墨烯动态漫反射表面的设计方法　(a) “原子”性质; (b) “分子”图案; (c) 算法流程

Figure 5. Design method of dynamic diffusion reflecting surface of graphene: (a) “Atom” property; (b) “lattice” structure; (c) algorithm flowchart.

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图 6 (a) 基于“分子”方法的漫反射计算迭代收敛过程; (b) 优化后产生漫反射表面远场分布; (c) 漫反射表面的阵列结构

Figure 6. (a) Iterative convergence process of diffusion calculation; (b) far field distribution of diffusion surface after optimization; (c) array structure of reflecting surface.

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图 7 三种规模的“分子”阵列情形下使用传统PSO算法与本文提出的方法优化过程的对比　(a) 9 × 9; (b) 18 × 18; (c) 27 × 27

Figure 7. Comparisons between the traditional PSO and the proposed method in this paper for three sizes of “molecular” arrays: (a) 9 × 9; (b) 18 × 18; (c) 27 × 27.

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图 8 三种规模的“分子”阵列情形下使用传统PSO算法与本文提出的方法的粒子分布对比　(a) 9 × 9; (b) 18 × 18; (c) 27 × 27

Figure 8. Particle distribution comparisons between the traditional PSO algorithm and the proposed method for three sizes of “molecular” arrays: (a) 9 × 9; (b) 18 × 18; (c) 27 × 27.

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表 1 传统PSO算法与本文提出的方法的效果对比

Table 1. Effect comparison between the traditional PSO and the proposed method in this paper.

阵列规模	传统PSO		本文方法
阵列规模	远场峰值/(V·m^–1)	优化效率/dB	远场峰值/(V·m^–1)	优化效率/dB
9 × 9	10.08	–16.80	6.72	–21.00
18 × 18	27.60	–20.74	19.60	–23.71
27 × 27	45.00	–23.54	34.00	–25.97

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表 2 传统PSO算法与本文提出的方法的粒子分布比较

Table 2. Particle distribution comparisons between the traditional PSO and the proposed method in this paper.

阵列规模	粒子方差		粒子均值
阵列规模	传统PSO	本文方法	传统PSO	本文方法
9 × 9	1.12	0.19	11.34	7.09
18 × 18	2.04	1.65	28.45	21.67
27 × 27	28.69	10.25	49.57	38.04

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[1]	Zhao J, Cheng Q, Wang X K, Yuan M J, Zhou X, Fu X J, Qi M Q, Liu S, Chen H B, Zhang Y 2016 Adv. Opt. Mater. 4 1773 Google Scholar
[2]	Benz A, Krall M, Schwarz S, Dietze D, Detz H, Andrews A M, Schrenk W 2014 Sci. Rep. 4 4296 Google Scholar
[3]	Nagatsuma T 2011 IEICE Electronic Exp. 8 1127 Google Scholar
[4]	Federici J, Moeller L 2010 J. Appl. Phys. 107 111101 Google Scholar
[5]	Alves F, Grbovic D, Kearney B, Karunasiri G 2012 Opt. Lett. 37 1886 Google Scholar
[6]	Iwaszczuk K, Strikwerda A C, Fan K, Zhang X, Averitt R D, Jepsen P U 2012 Opt. Express 20 635 Google Scholar
[7]	李思佳, 曹祥玉, 高军, 郑秋容, 陈红雅, 赵一, 杨群 2013 物理学报 62 194101 Google Scholar Li S J, Cao X Yu, Gao J Z, Qiu R Z, Yi Y Q 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 194101 Google Scholar
[8]	Cheng C W, Abbas M N, Chiu C W, Lai K T, Shih M H, Chang Y C 2012 Opt. Express 20 10376 Google Scholar
[9]	Zhao Y, Cao X, Gao J, Sun Y, Yang H, Liu X, Zhou Y, Han T, Chen W 2016 Sci Rep 6 23896 Google Scholar
[10]	闫昕, 梁兰菊, 张雅婷, 丁欣, 姚建铨 2015 物理学报 64 158101 Google Scholar Yan X, Liang L J, Zhang Y T, Ding X, Yao J Q 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 158101 Google Scholar
[11]	Cui T J, Qi M Q, Wan X, Zhao J, Cheng Q 2014 Light-Sci. Appl. 3 218 Google Scholar
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[13]	Zhang H, Lu Y, Su J, Li Z, Liu J, Yang Y 2017 Electron. Lett. 53 187 Google Scholar
[14]	Zhao J, Cheng Q, Wang T Q, Yuan W, Cui T J 2017 Opt. Express 25 1050 Google Scholar
[15]	Sui S, Ma H, Lv Y, Wang J, Li Z, Zhang J, Xu Z, Qu S 2018 Opt. Express 26 1443 Google Scholar
[16]	Zhuang Y, Wang G, Liang J, Zhang Q 2017 IEEE Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett. 16 2606 Google Scholar
[17]	Qiu L, Xiao G, Kong X, Xiong C 2019 Opt. Express 27 21226 Google Scholar
[18]	Gao L H, Cheng Q, Yang J, Ma S, Zhao J, Liu S, Chen H, He Q, Jiang W X, Ma H F 2015 Light-Sci. Appl. 4 324 Google Scholar
[19]	Wang J, Lu W B, Li X B, Liu J L 2016 IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 28 971 Google Scholar
[20]	李小兵, 陆卫兵, 刘震国, 陈昊 2018 物理学报 67 184101 Google Scholar Li X B, Lu W B, Liu Z G, Chen H 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 184101 Google Scholar
[21]	张银, 冯一军, 姜田, 曹杰, 赵俊明, 朱博 2017 物理学报 66 204101 Google Scholar Zhang Y, Feng Y J, Jiang T, Cao J, Zhao J M, Zhu B 2017 Acta Phys. Sin. 66 204101 Google Scholar

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