Configurable metamaterial absorber with pseudo wideband spectrum

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6616-6621

  Zhu, Weiren ^a   Huang, Yongjun ^b   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Wen, Guangjun ^b   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

ABSORPTION PEAKS; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; CONFIGURABLE; DIELECTRIC SLABS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GHZ FREQUENCIES; NARROW BANDS; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; OPERATING FREQUENCY; RESONANT INTERACTION; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THZ FREQUENCIES; WIDEBAND SPECTRUM;

METAMATERIALS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84858971037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006616     Document Type: Article

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