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We present a metamaterial that acts as a strongly resonant absorber at terahertz frequencies. Our design consists of a bilayer unit cell which allows for maximization of the absorption through independent tuning of the electrical…

In this work, tunable vanadium dioxide (VO2) metafilms on different substrate materials fabricated via low-oxygen furnace oxidation are demonstrated for self-adaptive daytime solar heating and nighttime radiative cooling. Because of its…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-25 Ken Araki , Vishwa Krishna Rajan , Liping Wang

Traditional microperforated panels (MPPs) and metamaterial-based sound absorbers rely on local resonances or multi-resonator designs, which limit their bandwidth, angular applicability, and ease of fabrication. Leveraging the reciprocity…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Jinjie Shi , Jie Luo , Chenkai Liu , Hongchen Chu , Yongxin Jing , Changqing Xu , Xiaozhou Liu , Jensen Li , Yun Lai

Vanadium dioxide with metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) that is triggered by heat, current or light is a promising material for modern active THz/mid-IR metasurfaces and all-optical big data processing systems. Multilayer VO2-based active…

Increasing attention on microwave ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers has been paid due to their promising applications. While most microwave ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers developed so far are based on metallic resonant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Jingda Wen , Qiang Ren , Ruiguang Peng , Haoyang Yao , Yuchang Qing , Jianbo Yin , Qian Zhao

We present the design for an absorbing metamaterial element with near unity absorbance. Our structure consists of two metamaterial resonators that couple separately to electric and magnetic fields so as to absorb all incident radiation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. I. Landy , S. Sajuyigbe , J. J. Mock , D. R. Smith , W. J. Padilla

We demonstrate thin, flexible, metamaterial films with a strong, narrowband, polarization- and angle-insensitive absorption designed for wavelengths near one millimeter. These structures, fabricated by photolithography on a commercially…

Monitoring and controlling the state of polarization of electromagnetic waves is of significant interest for various basic and practical applications such as linear position sensing and medical imaging. Here, we propose the first conformal…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-08 Javad Shabanpour , Sina Beyraghi , Fardin Ghorbani , Homayoon Oraizi

Metamaterial-based absorbers have been extensively investigated in the terahertz (THz) range with ever increasing performances. In this paper, we propose an all-dielectric THz absorber based on doped silicon. The unit cell consists of a…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Huafeng Liu , Kai Luo , Danhua Peng , Fangjing Hu , Liangcheng Tu

Metasurface based super absorbers exhibit near unity absorbance. While the absorption peak can be tuned by the geometry/size of the sub-wavelength resonator, broadband absorption can be obtained by placing multiple resonators of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-03 Arvind Nagarajan , Kumar Vivek , Manav Shah , Venu Gopal Achanta , Giampiero Gerini

We demonstrate a ventilated metamaterial absorber operating at low frequency (< 500 Hz).With only two layers of the absorption units, high-efficiency absorption (> 90%) has been achieved in both simulations and experiments. This…

Driven by a myriad of potential applications such as communications, medical imaging, security, spectroscopy, and so on, terahertz (THz) technology has emerged as a rapidly growing technological field during the last three decades. However,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Sara Arezoomandan

Photonic bandgap design is one of the most basic ways to effectively control the interaction between light and matter. However, the traditional photonic bandgap is always dispersive (blueshift with the increase of the incident angle), which…

We designed and demonstrated a multi-spectral programmable perfect absorber that exploits two different phase-change materials. This programmability is possible by resonantly coupling two phase change materials, a Ge2Sb2Te5 layer to…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-15 Yun Meng , Dan Li , Chong Zhang , Yang Wang , Robert E. Simpson , Yi Long

Complete absorption of electromagnetic waves is paramount in today's applications, ranging from photovoltaics to cross-talk prevention into sensitive devices. In this context, we use a genetic algorithm (GA) strategy to optimize absorption…

In recent times, the Archimedean spiral structure has been considered as a promising design element in construction for specific purposes and opening up new possibilities in various applications. Its distinctive geometry exhibits a…

General Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Mahyar Radak , Saeed Mirzanejad

In this work, a metamaterial selective solar absorber made of nanostructured titanium gratings deposited on an ultrathin MgF2 spacer and a tungsten ground film is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Normal absorptance of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-16 Hao Wang , Vijay Prasad Sivan , Arnan Mitchell , Gary Rosengarten , Patrick Phelan , Liping Wang

A metamaterial absorber converts solar radiation into heat for applications in thermoelectric generators and solar thermophotovoltaics. A metamaterial absorber typically consists of metallic parts separated by an insulator layer which does…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-21 Piyawath Tapsanit , Chesta Ruttanapun

We propose a resonant microwave absorber based on a chiral metamaterial. We show, with both numerical simulations and experimental measurements, that the absorber works well for a very wide range of incident angles for different…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-26 Bingnan Wang , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

Frequency Band of 0.5 THz to 1.1 THz (WR1.5 and WR1) is one of the promising bands when it comes to 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel metamaterial absorber suitable to be used at lower WR1 frequencies in TE mode. Alternatively, the…