Environment-dependent Broadband Perfect Absorption of Metal-insulator-metal Metamaterial Systems

• Published in: Current optics and photonics Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 136 - 146
• Main Authors: Feng Li, Yulong Tang, Qingsong Peng, Guosheng Hu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Broadband absorption; Refractive index; Polarized wave; Metamaterial

Based on calculations using the macroscopic Maxwell's equations with mesoscopic boundary conditions, light absorption by a layered metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metamaterial system embedded in three different environments is investigated. Increasing the top metal thickness shifts the broad absorp...