Constructing Dual Band Metamaterial Absorbers at Mid-Infrared by Employing Multi-Resonant Structures

Abstract:

In this paper, we present two metamaterial absorbers (MMA) at mid-infrared using multi-resonant structures. The dual band MMAs employ the typical metal/dielectric/metal structure with 80 nm gold ground plane at the bottom, 190 nm SiO₂ dielectric spacer in the middle and periodic gold patterns on top. The top resonant structure in MMA1 consists of a gold cross resonator ringed by four gold split-ring resonators (SRR) at the ends of the cross, while in the unit cell of MMA2, gold SRRs are placed at the four quadrants of the cross resonator. MMA1 shows two absorption peaks of 90.3% and 88.4% at 4.17μm and 4.86μm respectively, and the absorption peaks of MMA2 are observed to be 72.4% at 3.90μm and 48.0% at 5.66μm.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 645-646)
• Pages: 1059-1063
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.645-646.1059
• Online since: May 2015
• Authors: Wei Ma, Yong Zheng Wen, Rui Zhao, Xiao Mei Yu*
• Keywords: Dual Band, Metamaterials Absorber, Mid-Infrared, Resonantor, Split-Ring

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