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A wide-band perfect light absorber at mid-wave infrared using multiplexed metal structures

Optics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a wide band near perfect light absorber in the mid-wave infrared region using multiplexed plasmonic metal structures. The wide band near perfect light absorber is made of two different size gold metal squares multiplexed on a thin dielectric spacing layer on the top of a thick metal layer in each unit cell. We also fabricate regular non-multiplexed structure perfect light absorbers. The multiplexed structure IR absorber absorbs above 98% incident light over a much wider spectral band than the regular non-multiplexed structure perfect light absorbers in the mid-wave IR region.

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@article{arxiv.1201.1460,
  title  = {A wide-band perfect light absorber at mid-wave infrared using multiplexed metal structures},
  author = {Joshua Hendrickson and Junpeng Guo and Boyang Zhang and Walter Buchwald and Richard Soref},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1460},
  year   = {2015}
}