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Electrically tunable mid-infrared antennas based on VO2

Abstract A large change in optical constants of phase-change vanadium dioxide enables active control over the transmission and reflection properties of structures incorporating VO2. In this paper, we demonstrate electrically tunable mid-infrared strip array antennas based on metal–insulator transition of vanadium dioxide. The antennas consist of an interdigitated metal strip array separated from a metallic ground plane by a film of vanadium dioxide. The interdigitated metal strips serve as both antennas and electrodes. As the insulator-to-metal phase transition of vanadium dioxide is induced with applied voltages, resonance of the strip antenna array redshifts with reduced absorbance before it is eventually switched off. A tuning magnitude of 30% in reflectivity is measured at 25.5 THz. Our measurements of sample temperature reveal that tuning mechanism of the antennas is primarily thermal in nature. The demonstrated electrical tuning of mid-infrared antennas could be used for reconfigurable bolometric sensing, camouflaging and modulation of infrared radiations.