The potential of terahertz sensing for cancer diagnosis

Z Vafapour, A Keshavarz, H Ghahraloud - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
The terahertz (THz) region lies between the microwave and infrared regions of the
electromagnetic (EM) spectrum such that it is strongly attenuated by water and very sensitive …

Polarization-independent perfect optical metamaterial absorber as a glucose sensor in food industry applications

Z Vafapour - IEEE transactions on nanobioscience, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perfect optical metamaterial absorbers (POMMA) utilize intrinsic loss, with the aid of
appropriate structural design, to achieve near unity absorption at a certain wavelength. In all …

Colon cancer detection by designing and analytical evaluation of a water-based THz metamaterial perfect absorber

Z Vafapour, W Troy, A Rashidi - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Colon Cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer and the second-leading cause of
cancer related deaths in the United States. A large part of the reason the number of fatalities …

Multi-frequency polarization and electro-optical modulator based on triple plasmon-induced transparency in monolayer graphene metamaterials

Q Meng, F Chen, Y Xu, S Cheng, W Yang… - Diamond and Related …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a dynamically tunable triple plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) is
numerically investigated in a simple monolayer graphene-patterned structure. The structure …

The potential of refractive index nanobiosensing using a multi-band optically tuned perfect light metamaterial absorber

Z Vafapour, H Ghahraloud, A Keshavarz… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An optically tunable perfect light absorber as a refractive index (RI) metamaterial (MM)
nanobiosensor (NBS) is designed for sensing chemicals, monitoring the concentration of …

Cost-effective bull's eye aperture-style multi-band metamaterial absorber at sub-THz band: design, numerical analysis, and physical interpretation

Z Vafapour - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Theoretical and numerical studies were conducted on plasmonic interactions at a
polarization-independent semiconductor–dielectric–semiconductor (SDS) sandwiched layer …

Tunable plasmon induced transparency in graphene and hyperbolic metamaterial-based structure

MA Baqir, PK Choudhury, A Farmani… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A specially designed tunable hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) based on plasmon induced
transparency (PIT) of fractal in the near-infrared (NIR) regime was proposed. The HMM-layer …

Sensing, switching and modulating applications of a superconducting THz metamaterial

Z Vafapour, M Dutta, MA Stroscio - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of planar metamaterials (PrMMs) has opened a gateway to unprecedented
electromagnetic (EM) properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring …

High sensitivity refractive index and temperature sensor based on semiconductor metamaterial perfect absorber in the terahertz band

M Aslinezhad - Optics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose theoretically and numerically a highly sensitive refractive index and
temperature sensor based on semiconductor metamaterials in the terahertz range. We …

Ultrasensitive specific terahertz sensor based on tunable plasmon induced transparency of a graphene micro-ribbon array structure

P Tang, J Li, L Du, Q Liu, Q Peng, J Zhao, B Zhu, Z Li… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We proposed an ultrasensitive specific terahertz sensor consisting of two sets of graphene
micro-ribbon with different widths. The interference between the plasmon resonances of the …