Background Insensitive Polarization-Independent Ultra-Broadband Metamaterial Perfect Absorber in Mid-Infrared Regions

• Published in: IEEE photonics journal Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Yang, Hongyan, Li, Zhenkai, Mei, Ziyang, Xiao, Gongli, Deng, Hongchang, Yuan, Libo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.10.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Absorbers; Absorbers (materials); Absorption; Absorptivity; Background insensitive; Bandwidth; Broadband; Finite difference method; Impedance; Incidence angle; Infrared absorption; Medical research; meta- material perfect absorber; Metals; Metamaterials; mid-infrared; Pollution monitoring; Refractive index; Refractivity; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Silicon; Silicon dioxide; Silver; Substrates; Time domain analysis; ultra-broadband
• ISSN: 1943-0655; 1943-0655; 1943-0647
• DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3201267

The mid-infrared absorber is an important device for effective capture of high by atmospheric infrared transparent window, and has been a research hotspot in military, medical, biological and other fields. In this paper, a kind of ultra-thin mid-infrared ultra-broadband absorber with background insensitive is realized by stacking four metal/dielectric films (Si/Ag/Si 3 N 4 /SiO 2 ) on silver substrate and periodically arranged cross-anchor metal pattern in a method of finite-difference time domain. The results show that the absorption rate is more than 90% and the relative absorption bandwidth is 95.5% in the wavelength ranging from 9.1 μm to 24.1 μm. The average absorptivity is 92% in the range of background refractive index ( n = 1∼1.8), A proof of the device's insensibility to background refractive index. At a large incidence angle (θ ≤ 50°), the lowest absorption rate is up to 80%. The thickness of the optimized device is only 1.7 μm. The research results have important application value in infrared remote sensing, pollution monitoring, disease diagnosis and other fields.