The control of the speed of terahertz waves is always a challenge since the bandgap of most optical materials is much larger beyond meV with subtle nonlinear susceptibility. Moiré metasurfaces are shown to exhibit wide tunable optical properties and extraordinary physical phenomena at specific commensurate angles. These can be achieved by a careful design of the metasurface to manipulate terahertz slow light. Herein, we demonstrate a triple layer Moiré metasurface with a distinct electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) phenomenon at commensurate angles. The proposed metasurface is composed of an intrinsic square lattice embedded into another Moiré photonic superlattice made of twisted square lattice at commensurate angles of 10.39° and 7.63°. The coupling between adjacent meta-atoms on the combined metasurface leads to destructive interference of dual trapped lattice modes, which results in a transparency window at the terahertz band. A maximum group delay of 9.76 ps is found at the transparent window of 0.84 THz when the commensurate angle is 10.39°. When the commensurate angle reduces to 7.63°, the transparency window shifts to 0.57 THz with a 5.96 ps group delay. The coupled Lorentz oscillator model indicates that the nonlinear optical susceptibility at transparency windows is above zero. Our results create an approach to tune the EIT as well as slow light in the terahertz band. Our device can have potential applications in terahertz signal processing and storage.
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