Design of a polarization-insensitive and broadband terahertz absorber using metamaterials

Zou Tao-Bo; Hu Fang-Rong; Xiao Jing; Zhang Long-Hui; Liu Fang; Chen Tao; Niu Jun-Hao; Xiong Xian-Ming

doi:10.7498/aps.63.178103

Abstract

A polarization-insensitive and broadband terahertz (THz) absorber based on metamaterial (MM) is presented. The absorber consists of two layers of metal and a single layer of medium. Each periodic cell of the upper metallic layer consists of five different sizes of metal patches which form a square array of 55. In the array, the size of each metal patch is different from that of its adjacent one, and each size of the metal patch generates a single resonance absorption peak. The broadband absorption is actually produced by the overlapping of five adjacent resonance absorption peaks. By studying the distribution of the surface current and the z-component of electric field, it is easy to know that the energy of the incident THz wave is absorbed by two factors: one is the electric dipole oscillation caused by the electric field in the y direction, and the other is the magnetic polariton caused by the magnetic field in the z direction. And the ohmic loss of metal layers plays a major role on the absorption of the absorber. Simulation results show that the bandwidth achieves 1.2 THz for the absorption beyond 80%, and the maximum absorption is up to 98.7%. It's full width at half maximum (FWHM) is 1.6 THz, and the thickness of the broadband absorber is only about one twentieth of the center wavelength. In addition, the absorber is insensitive to the polarization and has a wide-angle feature, and the potential applications of the absorber are electromagnetic stealth, THz thermal radiation detectors, and THz communication.

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1.
College of Electronic Engineering and automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China;
2.
Air Force Services College, Xuzhou 221000, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61265005), the foundation from Guangxi Experiment Center of Information Science, China (Grant No. 20130101), the foundation from Guangxi Key Laboratory of Automatic Detection Technology and Instrument (Grant No. YQ14114), the Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (Grant No. YCSZ2014141) and program for innovation research team of Guilin University of Electronic Technology.

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