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 …

Analogue electromagnetically induced transparency based on low-loss metamaterial and its application in nanosensor and slow-light device

Z Wei, X Li, N Zhong, X Tan, X Zhang, H Liu, H Meng… - Plasmonics, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we demonstrated a low-loss and high-transmission analogy of
electromagnetically induced transparency based on all-dieletric metasurface. The …

Utilizing the metallic nano-rods in hexagonal configuration to enhance sensitivity of the plasmonic racetrack resonator in sensing application

MR Rakhshani, MA Mansouri-Birjandi - Plasmonics, 2017 - Springer
A high sensitive plasmonic refractive index sensor based on metal-insulator-metal (MIM)
waveguides with embedding metallic nano-rods in racetrack resonator has been proposed …

Graphene-based mid-infrared biosensor

Z Vafapour, Y Hajati, M Hajati, H Ghahraloud - JOSA B, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new graphene-based metamaterial biosensor to achieve tunable plasmon-
induced transparency in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) regime. The structure consists of a …

Design of mid infrared high sensitive metal-insulator-metal plasmonic sensor

A Hocini, MN Temmar, D Khedrouche - Chinese Journal of Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, high sensitivity plasmonic refractive index sensor based on implanted cavities
in Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) waveguide is designed and analyzed using two dimensional …

Controlling metamaterial transparency with superchiral fields

C Kelly, L Khosravi Khorashad, N Gadegaard… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The advent of metamaterials has heralded a period of unprecedented control of light. The
optical responses of metamaterials are determined by the properties of constituent …

Near infrared biosensor based on classical electromagnetically induced reflectance (Cl-EIR) in a planar complementary metamaterial

Z Vafapour - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
In the field of plasmonic metamaterials (MMs), the sub-wavelength metallic structures play a
role similar to atoms in nature. Classical electromagnetically induced reflectance (Cl-EIR) is …

Numerical simulation of tunable terahertz graphene-based sensor for breast tumor detection

A Hlali, A Oueslati, H Zairi - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a modeling and analysis of a tunable graphene-based sensor for breast
tumor detection operating in the terahertz frequency range using the wave concept iterative …

Slowing down light using terahertz semiconductor metamaterial for dual-band thermally tunable modulator applications

Z Vafapour - Applied optics, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Compared to the neighboring infrared and microwave regions, the terahertz regime is still in
need of fundamental technological advances. We have designed a terahertz (THz) …

Achieving a high Q-factor and tunable slow-light via classical electromagnetically induced transparency (Cl-EIT) in metamaterials

Z Vafapour, H Alaei - Plasmonics, 2017 - Springer
We report on our numerical work concerning a 3D planar nano-structure metamaterial
exhibiting classical electromagnetically induced transparency (Cl-EIT). The interaction …