Nanomaterials (Mar 2020)

A Perfect Absorber Based on Similar Fabry-Perot Four-Band in the Visible Range

  • Pinghui Wu,
  • Congfen Zhang,
  • Yijun Tang,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Li Lv

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030488
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
p. 488

Abstract

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A simple metamaterial absorber is proposed to achieve near-perfect absorption in visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The absorber is composed of metal-dielectric-metal (MIM) three-layer structure. The materials of these three-layer structures are Au, SiO2, and Au. The top metal structure of the absorber is composed of hollow three-dimensional metal rings regularly arranged periodically. The results show that the high absorption efficiency at a specific wavelength is mainly due to the resonance of the Fabry−Perot effect (FP) in the intermediate layer of the dielectric medium, resulting in the resonance light being trapped in the middle layer, thus improving the absorption efficiency. The almost perfect multiband absorption, which is independent of polarization angle and insensitivity of incident angle, lends the absorber great application prospects for filtering and optoelectronics.

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