Application of electrostatic jet-print technology in terahertz metasurface devices fabrication

In recent years, terahertz technology has been developed rapidly, and terahertz devices based on metasurfaces have received widespread attention and have been applicated in many areas, including terahertz imaging, spectroscopy, biosensing, and so on. However, the fabrication of the terahertz metasurface devices is complex and costly, while electrostatic jet-print technology has the advantages of mask-free, low cost, high precision, and special-shaped curved surface conformability. In this work, a terahertz absorber based on the electrostatic jet-print technology was designed and fabricated, and characterized by using a reflective terahertz time-domain spectrometer (THz-TDS). The result shows an absorption rate greater than 90% in the range of 0.098-0.353 THz, which is basically consistent with the simulation result. In addition, a terahertz polarization converter was also designed. The conversion efficiency in the range of 0.167-0.355 THz is greater than 95%, while the relative bandwidth is about 72%. The fabrication process conditions of the designed terahertz polarization converter was then analyzed, and the electrostatic jet-print technology was verified to be a promising fabrication method. The research results show that the electrostatic jet-print technology has broad application prospects in the fabrication of terahertz metasurface devices.