Computational and experimental verification of a wide-angle metamaterial absorber

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/4/044101

Abstract A metamaterial absorber is computed numerically and measured experimentally in a 150-THz~300-THz range. The measured absorber achieves high absorption rate for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarizations at large angles of incidence. An absorption sensor scheme is proposed based on the measured absorber and the variations of surrounding media. Different surrounding media are applied to the surface of the absorption sensor (including air, water, and glucose solution). Measured results show that high figure of merit (FOM) values are obtained for different surrounding media. The proposed sensor does not depend on the substrate, which means that it can be transplanted to different sensing platforms conveniently.

Keywords: sensors metamaterials simulation calculations

Received: 05 September 2016
Revised: 24 November 2016
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PACS:	41.20.Jb	(Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)
	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11547196), the Key Projects of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, China (Grant No. 15ZA0224), the Project of Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, China (Grant No. 2014RYJ01), and the Key Plan Projects of Science and Technology of Zigong, China (Grant No. 2016CXM05).

Corresponding Authors: Chao Chen
E-mail: yujun_lly@sina.com

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Chao Chen(陈超), Wang Jun(王君) Computational and experimental verification of a wide-angle metamaterial absorber 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 044101

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