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Wide-angle perfect absorber/thermal emitter in the THz regime

Optics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We show that a perfect absorber/thermal emitter exhibiting an absorption peak of 99.9% can be achieved in metallic nanostructures that can be easily fabricated. The very high absorption is maintained for large angles with a minimal shift in the center frequency and can be tuned throughout the visible and near-infrared regime by scaling the nanostructure dimensions. The stability of the spectral features at high temperatures is tested by simulations using a range of material parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2479,
  title  = {Wide-angle perfect absorber/thermal emitter in the THz regime},
  author = {Marcus Diem and Thomas Koschny and Costas M. Soukoulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2479},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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