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Simulation, Fabrication and Characterization of THz Metamaterial Absorbers
Published on: December 27, 2012
Metamaterial Absorbers with Archimedean Tiling Structures: Toward Response and Absorption of Multiband
Yuping Duan1, Shude Gu1, Ben Ma2
1Key Laboratory of Solidification Control and Digital Preparation Technology (Liaoning Province), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, China.
Abstract:
With the continuous development of electromagnetic wave-absorbing materials, the design of artificial structures for electromagnetic absorbers based on the concept of metamaterials is becoming more abundant. However, in the design process, it is difficult to further broaden the effective absorption band due to the limitation that the traditional single-size structure responds to electromagnetic waves only in specific frequency bands. Therefore, in this paper, based on the moth-eye bionic hexagonal structure absorber with antireflection performance, an Archimedean tiling structure is designed to optimize it, and through the introduction of a variety of primitives with large differences in dimensions, a multifrequency band-response mechanism is achieved to enhance the multireflection mechanism, which can effectively broaden the absorption band and improve the wave absorption performance. Ultimately, the moth-eye bionic structure absorber optimized by (3.4.6.4) can achieve an effective absorption of 10.26 GHz at a thickness of 2 mm. This work presents a new idea for the design work of electromagnetic wave-absorbing metamaterials, which has a broad application prospect in the aerospace, electronic information countermeasures, communication, and detection industries.
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