scholarly journals Hybrid Metamaterials Perfect Absorber and Sensitive Sensor in Optical Communication Band

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuehan Liu ◽  
Keyang Li ◽  
Zhao Meng ◽  
Zhun Zhang ◽  
Zhongchao Wei

A subwavelength metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) in optical communication band was proposed and tested using the finite-difference time-domain method. The absorber is periodic and comprises a top layer of diamond silicon surrounded by L-shaped silicon and a gold layer on the substrate. It can achieve dual-band perfect absorption, and one of the peaks is in the optical communication band. By changing the gap (g) between two adjacent pieces of L-shaped silicon, and the thickness (h) of the silicon layer, the resonance wavelength of absorption peak can be tuned. When the incident electromagnetic wave entered the absorber, the metamaterial absorber could almost completely consume the incident electromagnetic waves, thereby achieving more than 99% perfect absorption. The absorption peak reaches 99.986% at 1310 nm and 99.421% at 1550 nm. Moreover, the MPA exposed to different ambient refraction indexes can be applied as plasma sensors, and can achieve multi-channel absorption with high figure of merit (FOM*) value and refractive index (RI) sensitivity. The FOM* values at 1310 nm and 1550 nm are 6615 and 168, respectively, and both resonance peaks have highly RI sensitivity. The results confirm that the MPA is a dual-band, polarization-independent, wide-angle absorber and insensitive to incident angle. Thence it can be applied in the fields of optical communication, used as a light-wave filter and plasma sensor, and so on.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2109 (1) ◽  
pp. 012015
Author(s):  
Yiran Guo ◽  
Yunping Qi ◽  
Chuqin Liu ◽  
Weiming Liu ◽  
Xiangxian Wang

Abstract Graphene, as a new nano-material, according to the physical properties of electric field localization and selective absorption on light of surface plasmon resonance (SPR), a tunable, multi-band and wide-angle perfect absorber based on crosshair-shaped graphene is devised by using the Finite Difference in Time Domain (FDTD) method. In this paper, the effects of chemical potential, relaxation time, and incident angle of light on the absorptivity of graphene are systematically discussed. The simulation experiment shows that there are two absorption peaks with perfect absorption rate appeared in the study range, and the maximum modulation index can be obtained by changing the relaxation time. Finally, it proves that the absorber is insensitive to wide-angle of light. Thus, it is able to be concluded that the absorber has a great reference value to sensor, wireless communication, biomedical and other fields.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhan Zhao ◽  
Junqiao Wang ◽  
Ran Li ◽  
Bin Zhang

Abstract In this paper, a dual-band metamaterial absorber (MMA) with wide-angle and high absorptivity is proposed. The MMA consists of two silver layers separated by a dielectric layer. Its top resonant element is constituted by two concentric ring resonators connected with four strips. Based on electromagnetic field simulation, the proposed MMA has two narrow absorption peaks with an absorption rate of 99.9% at 711 nm and 99.8% at 830 nm, and the corresponding line width of the two absorption peaks are only 9.7 nm and 9.8 nm. The dual-band MMA shows high absorptivity under wide incident angles. The simulated field pattern shows that dual-band perfect absorption is the combined result of the interaction of two concentric ring resonators and unit cell coupling. In addition, the hexapole plasmon mode can be observed at the outer ring at one absorption peak. The narrow plasmon resonance has a potential application in optical sensing, and can be used to measure the concentration of aqueous glucose with two frequency channels. The proposed MMA with high absorptivity is simple to manufacture, and has other potential applications, such as narrow-band filters, energy storage device, and so on.


Author(s):  
Qinghui Pan ◽  
Qizhen Wang ◽  
Yong Shuai ◽  
Heping Tan

We present a 2D square loop-shaped nanostructure, which is made of a square loop aluminum array on Al2O3 spacer and Al substrate. High absorption peaks are obtained at 3.5μm and 9μm when the incident wave is vertically. In the design of dual-band or multi-band structure, the two high absorption bands are designed to stimulate the outer magnetic excitation of the first-order and the high-order magnetic resonance wavelength. For structure design with two absorption peaks or multiple absorption peaks, the expectation bands with high absorption would be obtained in the cooperation between first-order and higher-order magnetic resonance due to the outer structure. The main absorption peak due to the inner structure may be coupled the second absorption peak due to the outer structure. Then the absorption bandwidth could be broadened and the dual-band perfect absorption effect could be obtained in this loop-shaped structure.


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bui Son Tung ◽  
Bui Xuan Khuyen ◽  
Young Joon Yoo ◽  
Joo Yull Rhee ◽  
Ki Won Kim ◽  
...  

We investigated a reversibly-propagational metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) for X band using two separated identically-patterned copper layers, which were deposited on continuous dielectric FR-4 layers. By adjusting oblique incidence, two separated resonances are excited, then come close to each other and is finally merged to be a perfect absorption peak at 10.1 GHz. The nature of resonance is the quadrupole mode instead of the fundamental resonances in common MPAs. The mechanism of perfect absorption is the coupling of two quadrupole resonances at their superposition, leading to an enhancement of energy absorption. Finally, we numerically presented the capability of sensing thin resonant substance using the proposed MPA. The characteristic resonance of substance, which does not appear on the absorption spectrum at the limited thickness of bare substance layer, is detected with a great magnitude of signal by exploiting the absorption resonance of MPA. Our work provides another way to obtain the reversibly-propagational absorption by controlling the incident angle instead of the geometrical structure, and might be useful for the potential devices based on MPA such as detectors and sensors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 30901
Author(s):  
Yibo Tang ◽  
Longhui He ◽  
Jianming Xu ◽  
Hailang He ◽  
Yuhan Li ◽  
...  

A dual-band microwave metamaterial absorber with single-peak regulation and wide-angle absorption has been proposed and illustrated. The designed metamaterial absorber is consisted of hollow-cross resonators, solid-cross resonators, dielectric substrate and metallic background plane. Strong absorption peak coefficients of 99.92% and 99.55% are achieved at 8.42 and 11.31 GHz, respectively, which is basically consistent with the experimental results. Surface current density and changing material properties are employed to illustrate the absorptive mechanism. More importantly, the proposed dual-band metamaterial absorber has the adjustable property of single absorption peak and could operate well at wide incidence angles for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) waves. Research results could provide and enrich instructive guidances for realizing a single-peak-regulation and wide-angle dual-band metamaterial absorber.


2013 ◽  
Vol 774-776 ◽  
pp. 907-912
Author(s):  
Hui Bin Zhang ◽  
Li Wei Deng ◽  
Nan Zhang ◽  
Pei Heng Zhou ◽  
Jian Liang Xie ◽  
...  

We simulate, fabricate and measure a microwave absorber by introducing metamaterial design method to magnetic material. The proposed absorber is composed of periodic copper wire array, magnetic material coated on copper wires, a foam substrate and a bottom metal plane. The results show a nearly perfect absorption peak around 8.7GHz (simulated) and 7.6GHz (measured). Even though the electric and magnetic field distribution indicate that the absorption is a typical metamaterial absorption, the power loss is neither Ohmic nor dielectric loss but magnetic loss, which is different from typical metamaterial absorber. The skillful introduction of the magnetic loss improves the absorption performance, including the absorption bandwidth and intensity. The designed absorber shows an effective application of the magnetic material, which is only 1/60000 volume proportion of the total absorber. Dependences of the absorption on frequency and the coating volume of the magnetic material manifest that the coated magnetic material can adjust the absorption peak position and intensity. The absorber can be an attractive candidate of electromagnetic wave absorber.


2011 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 381-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xun-Jun He ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
Jianmin Wang ◽  
Tailong Gui ◽  
Qun Wu

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (25) ◽  
pp. 1850275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Ünal ◽  
Mehmet Bağmancı ◽  
Muharrem Karaaslan ◽  
Oguzhan Akgol ◽  
Cumali Sabah

A new metamaterial absorber (MA) having distinct properties than those given in the literature is investigated. Although several designs have been studied for achieving absorption characteristics in single-band, dual-band and multiple bands within the whole spectrum of solar light, there has been limited number of researches examining the broadband MA in the visible light section of the spectrum. The designed structure is composed of the combination of three layers having different thicknesses including a metallic substrate, dielectric and a metal layer. Due to the sandwich-like structure, it can support the plasmonic resonance. The proposed structure, which provides a maximum absorption level of 99.42% at 579.26 THz, has a high absorption rate of 99% between the frequency band 545 and 628 THz. Numerical results indicate that the proposed structure has perfect absorption which is greater than 90.98% through the whole working frequency band. The dependency of the designed structure on the polarization angle is investigated for different incident angles with TE and TM polarizations as well as the TEM mode. In addition to its potential applications such as solar cells and cloaking, the designed structure can also be considered as a color sensor and an optical frequency sensor.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
M. C. Tran ◽  
T. T. H. Phuong

This paper presents a study of a novel absorber structure based on two-dielectric-layers, two perfect absorption frequency bands at K band (f1 = 26.5 GHz and f2 = 28.6 GHz) go under observance. The study of the dependence of absorption and frequency on relative distance between the layers of material and the material structure parameters are discussed. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zichun Li ◽  
Jinhua Li ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Yingjiao Zhai ◽  
Xueying Chu ◽  
...  

Due to the problems that the metal pattern layer on the top of the traditional metamaterial structure is easy to be oxidized and easy to fall off, in this paper, a novel semiconductor metamaterial nanostructure composed of a periodic array of GaAs-SiO2 cubes and a gold (Au) film has been proposed. Using FDTD solutions software to prove this metamaterial structure can achieve ultranarrow dual-band, nearly perfect absorption with a maximum absorbance of 99% and a full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) value that is less than 20 nm in the midinfrared region. The refractive index sensitivity is demonstrated by changing the background index and analyzing the absorption performance. It had been proved that this absorber has high sensitivity (2000/RIU and 1300/RIU). Using semiconductor material instead of the metal material of the top pattern layer can effectively inhibit the performance failure of the metamaterial structure caused by metal oxidation. The proposed narrow, dual-band metamaterial absorber shows promising prospects in applications such as infrared detection and imaging.


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