Excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons in hybrid graphene metasurface — vanadium dioxide nanostructure using prism coupling

We have investigated the attenuated total internal reflection in hybrid graphene metasurface — vanadium dioxide nanostructure. This effect is caused by surface plasmon-polaritons excitation in the structure. Phase transition in vanadium dioxide leads to crucial change in it's optical plasmonic properties of the entire structure. We believe that the studied structure with vanadium dioxide as one of the layers can serve as the basis for future self-adjusting structures, which can change their parameters during it's operation.