Abstract-Characterization of Degradation in Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Terahertz Spectroscopy

Yeongkon Jeong, Soo Jong Park,  Sang-Hun Lee, Byeong-Kwon Ju,  Young Min Jhon, Minah Seo,

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8730086

We investigated degradation of organic light emitting diodes (OLED) by terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Decreased reflectance at 0.84 THz was observed inferred from the electric degradation of OLED

Abstract-Enhanced Terahertz Shielding of MXenes with Nano-Metamaterials

Geunchang Choi, Faisal Shahzad, Young-Mi Bahk, Young Min Jhon, Hyunchul Park, Mohamed Alhabeb, Babak Anasori, Dai-Sik Kim, Chong Min Koo, Yury Gogotsi, Minah Seo,

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.201701076/full

Terahertz (THz) shielding becomes increasingly important with the growing development of THz electronics and devices. Primarily materials based on carbon nanostructures or polymer–carbon nanocomposites have been explored for this application. Herein, significantly enhanced THz shielding efficiencies for 2D titanium carbide (Ti3C2 MXene) thin films with nanoscale THz metamaterials are presented. Nanoscale slot antenna arrays with strong resonances at certain frequencies enhance THz electromagnetic waves up to three orders of magnitude in transmission, which in turn enormously increases the shielding performance in combination with MXene films. Drop-casting of a colloidal solution of MXene (a few micrograms of dry material) can produce an ultrathin film (several tens of nanometers in thickness) on a slot antenna array. Consequently, THz waves strongly localized in the near-field regime by the slot antenna undergo enhanced absorption through the film with a magnified effective refractive index. Finally, the combination of an ultrathin MXene film and a nano-metamaterial shows excellent shielding performance in the THz range.

Abstract-Enhanced Terahertz Shielding of MXenes with Nano-Metamaterials

Geunchang Choi, Faisal Shahzad, Young-Mi Bahk, Young Min Jhon, Hyunchul Park, Mohamed Alhabeb, Babak Anasori, Dai-Sik Kim, Chong Min Koo, Yury Gogotsi,

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.201701076/abstract

Terahertz (THz) shielding becomes increasingly important with the growing development of THz electronics and devices. Primarily materials based on carbon nanostructures or polymer–carbon nanocomposites have been explored for this application. Herein, significantly enhanced THz shielding efficiencies for 2D titanium carbide (Ti3C2 MXene) thin films with nanoscale THz metamaterials are presented. Nanoscale slot antenna arrays with strong resonances at certain frequencies enhance THz electromagnetic waves up to three orders of magnitude in transmission, which in turn enormously increases the shielding performance in combination with MXene films. Drop-casting of a colloidal solution of MXene (a few micrograms of dry material) can produce an ultrathin film (several tens of nanometers in thickness) on a slot antenna array. Consequently, THz waves strongly localized in the near-field regime by the slot antenna undergo enhanced absorption through the film with a magnified effective refractive index. Finally, the combination of an ultrathin MXene film and a nano-metamaterial shows excellent shielding performance in the THz range.

Abstract-Terahertz transmission control using polarization-independent metamaterials

Sang-Hun Lee, Dong-Kyu Lee, Chulki Kim, Young Min Jhon, Joo-Hiuk Son, and Minah Seo

https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-25-10-11436

We present terahertz (THz) transmission control by several uniquely designed patterns of nano-slot antenna array. Collinearly aligned slot antenna arrays have been usually applied to THz filters with frequency band tunability by their geometry. Normally the amplitude in transmission (reflection) in the collinear alignment case can be varied via rotating the azimuthal angle with a sinusoidal trend, which can limit their utilization and performance only at fixed angle between the alignment of the resonant antennas and incident beam polarization. To pursue a variety of metamaterial uses, here, we present polarization-independent THz filters using variously aligned antenna array (asterisk, chlorophyll, and honeycomb patterns) in such counter-intuitive aspects. Besides, unprecedented multi resonance behaviors were observed in chlorophyll and honeycomb patterns, which can be explained with interferences by adjacent structures. The measured spectra were analyzed by harmonic oscillator model with simplified coupling between slots and their adjacent.

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Abstract-Observation of terahertz-radiation-induced ionization in a single nano island

Minah Seo,

Ji-Hun Kang,

Hyo-Suk Kim,

Joon Hyong Cho,

Jaebin Choi,

Young Min Jhon,

Seok Lee,

Jae Hun Kim,

Taikjin Lee,

Q-Han Park

& Chulki Kim

http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150522/srep10280/full/srep10280.html

Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic wave has been widely used as a spectroscopic probe to detect the collective vibrational mode in vast molecular systems and investigate dielectric properties of various materials. Recent technological advances in generating intense THz radiation and the emergence of THz plasmonics operating with nanoscale structures have opened up new pathways toward THz applications. Here, we present a new opportunity in engineering the state of matter at the atomic scale using THz wave and a metallic nanostructure. We show that a medium strength THz radiation of 22 kV/cm can induce ionization of ambient carbon atoms through interaction with a metallic nanostructure. The prepared structure, made of a nano slot antenna and a nano island located at the center, acts as a nanogap capacitor and enhances the local electric field by two orders of magnitudes thereby causing the ionization of ambient carbon atoms. Ionization and accumulation of carbon atoms are also observed through the change of the resonant condition of the nano slot antenna and the shift of the characteristic mode in the spectrum of the transmitted THz waves