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Table 1 Broadband fingerprint sensing performance of recently reported metasurfaces

From: Ultra-wideband terahertz fingerprint enhancement sensing and inversion model supported by single-pixel reconfigurable graphene metasurface

Material of metasurface

Resonance type

Multiplexed scheme

Spectral range

Tuning bandwidth

Analyte

Enhancement Factor

Ref

Ge

QBIC resonance

Single-pixel

Angle-multiplexed

Mid-IR

\(\sim\) 700 nm

PMMA

16.9 dB

[36]

Silicon

Mie resonance

Single-pixel

Angle-multiplexed

Mid-IR

\(\sim\) 1005 nm

2, 4-DNT

10 dB

[39]

Silicon

Mie resonance

Multi-pixel

Geometry-multiplexed

Mid-IR

\(\sim\) 400 nm

Protein A/G

17.7 dB

[35]

graphene

Plasma resonance

N/A

Voltage tuning

Mid-IR

\(\sim\) 550 nm

Protein A/G

N/A

[53]

SiO2

QBIC resonance

N/A

Thickness-multiplexed

THz

\(\sim\) 0.8 THz

Histidine

25 dB

[76]

PE

Guided-mode resonance

N/A

Angle-multiplexed

THz

\(\sim\) 0.5 THz

α-lactose

10 dB

[41]

Graphene

 + Au

Diopole resonance

Multi-pixel

Voltage tuning

THz

\(\sim\) 1 THz

Glucose

6 dB

[40]

Graphene

EIT resonance

Single-pixel

Voltage tuning

THz

\(\sim\) 1.5 THz

Chiral carnitine

17.4 dB

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