An extremely broad band metamaterial absorber based on destructive interference

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21155-21162

  Sun, Jingbo ^a   Liu, Lingyun ^a   Dong, Guoyan ^a   Zhou, Ji ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STEALTH TECHNOLOGY;

ABSORPTANCE; ANTI-REFLECTION; BROAD BANDS; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; MULTI-LAYERED; REFLECTION WAVES; REFRACTIVE INDEX DISPERSION; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80054964856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021155     Document Type: Article

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