Abstract-Gate-tunable coherent perfect absorption of terahertz radiation in graphene

Fangli Liu, Y.D. Chong, Shaffique Adam, Marco Polini

(Submitted on 11 Feb 2014)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2368

Perfect absorption of radiation in a graphene sheet may play a pivotal role in the realization of technologically relevant optoelectronic devices. In particular, perfect absorption of radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range would tremendously boost the potential of graphene in this difficult range of photon energies, which still lacks cheap and robust devices operating at room temperature. In this work we demonstrate that unpatterned graphene flakes deposited on back-gated devices can display gate-tunable coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in the THz spectral range. We present theoretical estimates for the CPA operating frequency as a function of doping, which take into account the presence of common sources of disorder in graphene samples.