Theoretical investigation of broadband and wide-angle terahertz metamaterial absorber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-114

  Wang, Ben Xin ^a   Wang, Ling Ling ^a   Wang, Gui Zhen ^a   Huang, Wei Qing ^a   Li, Xiao Fei ^a   Zhai, Xiang ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; metamaterial; perfect absorber; resonance frequencies

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; LONGITUDINAL COUPLING; METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS; PERFECT ABSORBER; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SINGLE-LAYER STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

BANDWIDTH; OPTICS; PHOTONICS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84892561505     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2289299     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, D. J. Robbins, and W. J. Stewart, "Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 2075-2084, Nov. 1999.
2. B. X. Wang, et al., "A simple nested metamaterial structure with enhanced bandwidth performance," Opt. Commun., vol. 303, no. 13, pp. 13-14, 2013.
3. J. Yang, C. Sauvan, H. T. Liu, and P. Lalanne, "Theory of fishnet negative-index optical metamaterials," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 043903-1-043903-4, 2011.
4. G. Dolling, C. Enkrich, M. Wegener, J. F. Zhou, C. M. Soukoulis, and S. Linden, "Cut-wire pairs and plate pairs as magnetic atoms for optical metamaterials," Opt. Lett., vol. 30, no. 23, pp. 3198-3200, 2005. (Pubitemid 43010905)
5. N. Liu, H. Liu, S. Zhu, and H. Giessen, "Stereometamaterials," Nature Photon., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 157-162, 2009.
6. N. I. Landy, S. Sajuyigbe, J. J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and W. J. Padilla, "Perfect metamaterial absorber," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 100, no. 20, pp. 207402-1-207402-4, 2008.
7. H. Luo, Y. Z. Cheng, and R. Z. Gong, "Numerical study of metamaterial absorber and extending absorbance bandwidth based on multi-square patches," Eur. Phys. J. B, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 387-392, 2011.
8. Y. H. Liu, S. Gu, C. R. Luo, and X. P. Zhao, "Ultra-thin broadband metamaterial absorber," Appl. Phys. A, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 19-24, 2012.
9. J. A. Mason, G. Allen, V. A. Podolskiy, and D. Wasserman, "Strong coupling of molecular and mid-infrared perfect absorber resonances," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 31-33, Jan. 1, 2012.
10. C. Hu, Z. Zhao, X. Chen, and X. Luo, "Realizing near-perfect absorption at visible frequencies," Opt. Express, vol. 17, no. 13, pp. 11039-11044, 2009.
11. Y. Ye, Y. Jin, and S. He, "Omni-directional, broadband and polarizationinsensitive thin absorber in the terahertz regime," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 498-503, 2010.
12. Y. Ma, Q. Chen, J. Grant, S. C. Saha, A. Khalid, and D. R. S. Cumming, "A terahertz polarization insensitive dual band metamaterial absorber," Opt. Lett., vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 945-947, 2011.
13. X. Shen, T. J. Cui, J. Zhao, H. F. Ma, W. X. Jiang, and H. Li, "Polarization-independent wide-angle triple-band metamaterial absorber," Opt. Express, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 9401-9407, 2011.
14. J. Grant, Y. Ma, S. Saha, A. Khalid, and D. R. S. Cumming, "Polarization insensitive, broadband terahertz metamaterial absorber," Opt. Lett., vol. 36, no. 17, pp. 3476-3478, 2011.
15. F. Ding, Y. Cui, X. Ge, F. Zhang, Y. Jin, and S. He, "Ultra- broadband microwave metamaterial absorber," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 100, no. 10, pp. 103506-1-103506-4, 2012.
16. Y. Cui, et al., "A thin film broadband absorber based on multi-sized nanoantennas," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 99, no. 25, pp. 253101-1-253101-4, 2011.
17. Y. Cui, et al., "Ultrabroadband light absorption by a sawtooth anisotropic metamaterial slab," Nano Lett., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1443-1447, 2012.
18. C. W. Cheng, M. N. Abbas, C. W. Chiu, K. T. Lai, M. H. Shih, and Y. C. Chang, "Wide-angle polarization independent infrared broadband absorbers based on metallic multi-sized disk arrays," Opt. Express, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 10376-10381, 2012.
19. T. M. Kollatou, A. I. Dimitriadis, and C. S. Antonopoulos, "A class of multi-band, polarization-insensitive, microwave metamaterial absorber in EMC analysis," in Proc. Int. Symp. Electromagn. Compat., Sep. 2012, pp. 1-4.
20. J. Zhou, E. N. Economon, T. Koschny, and C. M. Soukoulis, "Unifying approach to left-handed material design," Opt. Lett., vol. 31, no. 24, pp. 3620-3622, 2006. (Pubitemid 46079722)
21. N. Liu, L. Fu, S. Kaiser, H. Schweizer, and H. Giessen, "Plasmonic building for magnetic molecules in three-dimensional optical metamaterials," Adv. Matter., vol. 20, no. 20, pp. 3859-3865, 2008.
22. N. Liu, H. Guo, L. Fu, S. Kaiser, H. Schweizer, and H. Giessen, "Plasmon hybridization in stacked cut-wire metamaterials," Adv. Matter., vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 3628-3632, 2007. (Pubitemid 350134614)