Ultrathin wide bandwidth metamaterial absorber using randomly distributed scatterers

Farzad Ahmadi; Nathan Ida

doi:10.1117/12.2254493

24 February 2017 Ultrathin wide bandwidth metamaterial absorber using randomly distributed scatterers

Farzad Ahmadi, Nathan Ida

Proceedings Volume 10103, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications X; 101031F (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254493
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, a broadband, ultrathin metamaterial absorber (MA) using randomly distributed scatterers is presented. Each scattering element consists of two parallel strips. These elements can either be isolated or they may overlap with nearby elements. Three different randomly positioned structures are investigated for normal incident angle as well as oblique incident angles showing that these MAs can provide broadband absorption for all cases. The results presented here coincide with some previous works. Each structure obviously has different absorption spectrum and FWHM since the coupling between the randomly positioned scatterers is different in each case. The coupling between neighboring isolated and clustered scatterers form many resonating modes resulting in broadband absorption. The distribution of the electromagnetic fields are analyzed to obtain the physical behavior of the absorber. This shows that promising results can still be obtained for MAs when there is a significant tolerance distance between scatterers due to fabrication errors in micro and nanoscale metadevices.

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Farzad Ahmadi and Nathan Ida "Ultrathin wide bandwidth metamaterial absorber using randomly distributed scatterers", Proc. SPIE 10103, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications X, 101031F (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254493

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