Review of broadband metamaterial absorbers: from principles, design strategies, and tunable properties to functional applications

BX Wang, C Xu, G Duan, W Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterial absorbers have been widely studied and continuously concerned owing to
their excellent resonance features of ultra‐thin thickness, light‐weight, and high absorbance …

Terahertz plasmonics: The rise of toroidal metadevices towards immunobiosensings

A Ahmadivand, B Gerislioglu, R Ahuja, YK Mishra - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reviews fundamentals and the recent state-of-art achievements in the field of
plasmonic biosensing based terahertz (THz) spectroscopy. Being nonpoisonous and …

Design of a dual-band terahertz metamaterial absorber using two identical square patches for sensing application

BX Wang, Y He, P Lou, W **ng - Nanoscale Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A dual-band terahertz metamaterial absorber composed of two identical square metallic
patches and an insulating medium layer on top of a continuous metallic ground is …

Metamaterial electromagnetic wave absorbers

CM Watts, X Liu, WJ Padilla - Advanced materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of negative index materials has spawned extensive research into metamaterials
over the past decade. Metamaterials are attractive not only for their exotic electromagnetic …

Plasmonic and metamaterial structures as electromagnetic absorbers

Y Cui, Y He, Y **, F Ding, L Yang, Y Ye… - Laser & Photonics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of
plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrowband absorbers due to …

Ultrabroadband light absorption by a sawtooth anisotropic metamaterial slab

Y Cui, KH Fung, J Xu, H Ma, Y **, S He, NX Fang - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present an ultrabroadband thin-film infrared absorber made of sawtoothed anisotropic
metamaterial. Absorptivity of higher than 95% at normal incidence is supported in a wide …

All-dielectric metasurface absorbers for uncooled terahertz imaging

K Fan, JY Suen, X Liu, WJ Padilla - optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Imaging in the terahertz (THz) range of the electromagnetic spectrum is difficult owing to the
lack of high-power sources and efficient detectors. For decades, there has been tremendous …

Polarization-independent wide-angle triple-band metamaterial absorber

X Shen, TJ Cui, J Zhao, HF Ma, WX Jiang, H Li - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report the design, fabrication, and measurement of a microwave triple-band absorber.
The compact single unit cell consists of three nested electric closed-ring resonators and a …

Dual-controlled switchable broadband terahertz absorber based on a graphene-vanadium dioxide metamaterial

T Wang, Y Zhang, H Zhang, M Cao - Optical Materials Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a dual-controlled switchable broadband terahertz (THz) metamaterial absorber
based on a hybrid of vanadium dioxide (VO_2) and graphene that demonstrates strong …

Recent progress in some composite materials and structures for specific electromagnetic applications

LB Kong, ZW Li, L Liu, R Huang… - International …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This review aims to summarise the progress in some materials and structures for
electromagnetic applications, such as microwave absorption, electric shielding and antenna …