Labyrinth Absorber based on Metageometries Metasurface for Fungi Detection

Irati Jauregui-Lopez, Pablo Rodriguez-Ulibarri, Sergei A. Kuznetsov, Miguel Beruete
2020 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)   unpublished
In this paper a labyrinth metasurface based in the new paradigm of metageometries is designed to operate in the Terahertz (THz) band as a biosensor. First, a numerical study is carried out to study the performance of the metasurface as a refractometer when working in two different configurations: transmission and reflection. Then, its performance as a fungi detector is evaluated and a comparison with other devices is performed, showing that the sensitivity and Figure of Merit (FOM) can be
more » ... ed by the use of these kind of devices, in comparison with the classical approach of metaatoms. Particularly, the designed structure is able to detect 5 fungi elements arbitrarily distributed on the unit cell, which is equivalent to a concentration of 0.004/µm 2 , improving the results available in the literature by a factor of more than 4.
doi:10.23919/eucap48036.2020.9135266 fatcat:qdtjc3engfawnalp6opniovdkm