Dirac semimetal and an all dielectric based tunable ultrasensitive terahertz sensor with multiple bound states in the continuum

Abstract

Herein, we propose an all dielectric, open-slit, U-shaped resonant arm-based metasurface that achieves three bound states in the continuum (BIC) in the high-frequency terahertz band whose quasi-BIC (QBIC) states can achieve Q factor of the magnitude order of 104. The maximum sensitivities of accidental QBIC and the figure-of-merit were respectively equal to 1717 GHz/RIU and 16670. Furthermore, the dependencies of the three QBICs on the THz incidence angle were different. Finally, the tunable sensor based on the Dirac semimetal metasurface achieves active tuning of the sensitivity and sensing range. This overcomes the shortcomings of the fixed structure without tuning capabilities, and provides a broad applicability platform for THz sensors.