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A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial

Optics 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

Metamaterial-based perfect absorbers promise many applica- tions. Perfect absorption is characterized by the complete suppression of transmission and reflection and complete dissipation of the incident energy by the absorptive meta-atoms. A certain absorption spectrum is usually assigned to a bulk medium and serves as a signature of the respective material. Here we show how to use graphene flakes as building blocks for perfect absorbers. Then, an absorbing meta-atom only consists of a molecular monolayer placed at an appropriate distance from a metallic ground plate. We show that the functionality of such device is intuitively and correctly explained by a Fabry-Perot model.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2916,
  title  = {A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial},
  author = {Rasoul Alaee and Mohamed Farhat and Carsten Rockstuhl and Falk Lederer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2916},
  year   = {2015}
}

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