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Electromagnetically induced transparency in novel dual-band metamaterial excited by toroidal dipolar response

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We demonstrated a novel metamaterial with dual-band electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) via simulation, experiment and numerical analysis, with resonance frequencies of the transparency peaks of 7.60 and 10.27 GHz. The E-ε metamaterial unit cells were composed of E-shaped and ε-shaped patterns. By analyzing the surface current distribution and the magnetic field, we qualitatively verified the toroidal dipole response in the E-ε metamaterial at 10.27 GHz. Meanwhile, by calculating the multipole’s radiated power, we found that the two transparency peaks were due to the excitation of the electric and toroidal dipole responses. By changing the incident angle from 0° to 60°, we observed changes in transmission spectra, and the quality factors (Q-factors) of the two transparency peaks increased. In addition, the proposed E-ε metamaterial can be designed to act as a refractive index sensor or other electronic equipment for the control of electromagnetic waves.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61741104 and 61701206), the Self-determined Research Funds of Central China Normal University from the Colleges’ Basic Research and Operation of Ministry of Education of China (Grant Nos. CCNU18GF004 and CCNU18JCXK02), and the Funding for Basic Scientific Research Business of Central Universities (Innovation Funding Project) (Grant No. 2018CXZZ116).

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  1. College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China

    Zhao-Yang Shen, He-Lin Yang, Tian-Yu Xiang, Jiong Wu & Wei Chen

  2. College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, 710054, China

    Xiao-Jun Huang

  3. School of Computer and Information, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China

    Xuan Liu

  4. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550000, China

    Tian-Yu Xiang

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Shen, ZY., Yang, HL., Liu, X. et al. Electromagnetically induced transparency in novel dual-band metamaterial excited by toroidal dipolar response. Front. Phys. 15, 12601 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0928-x

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