Design of a multiband terahertz perfect absorber

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/3/037801

Abstract A thin-flexible multiband terahertz metamaterial absorber (MA) has been investigated. Each unit cell of the MA consists of a simple metal structure, which includes the top metal resonator ring and the bottom metallic ground plane, separated by a thin-flexible dielectric spacer. Finite-difference time domain simulation indicates that this MA can achieve over 99% absorption at frequencies of 1.50 THz, 3.33 THz, and 5.40 THz by properly assembling the sandwiched structure. However, because of its asymmetric structure, the MA is polarization-sensitive and can tune the absorptivity of the second absorption peak by changing the incident polarization angle. The effect of the error of the structural parameters on the absorption efficiency is also carefully analyzed in detail to guide the fabrication. Moreover, the proposed MA exhibits high refractive-index sensing sensitivity, which has potential applications in multi-wavelength sensing in the terahertz region.

Keywords: multiband terahertz electromagnetic resonance metamaterial absorber

Received: 10 September 2015
Revised: 07 November 2015
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PACS:	78.20.Ci	(Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))
	41.20.Jb	(Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11504006), the Key Scientific Research Project of Higher Education of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 15A140002), and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 142300410366).

Corresponding Authors: Dan Hu, Hua-ying Wang
E-mail: tylzhd@163.com;pbxsyingzi@126.com

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Dan Hu(胡丹), Hong-yan Wang(王红燕), Zhen-jie Tang(汤振杰),Xi-wei Zhang(张希威), Lin Ju(鞠琳), Hua-ying Wang(王华英) Design of a multiband terahertz perfect absorber 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 037801

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