Perfect metamaterial absorber with polarization and incident angle independencies based on ring and cross-wire resonators for shielding and a sensor application

• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.02.036
• Publication Date: 2014-02-25T02:45:29Z
• Authors: Cumali Sabah; Furkan Dincer; Muharrem Karaaslan; Emin Unal; Oguzhan Akgol; Ekrem Demirel
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology; 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences

Abstract We report the design, characterization and experimental verification of a perfect metamaterial absorber (MA) based on rings and cross wires (RCWs) configurations that operate in the microwave regime. The suggested MA provides perfect absorption with incident angle and polarization independencies which can be used for various shielding applications. Maximum absorption rate is 99.9 % at 2.76 GHz for simulation and 99.4 % at 2.82 GHz for experiment, respectively. The experimental results of the fabricated prototype are in good agreement with the numerical simulations. We also present a numerical analysis in order to explain physical interpretation of MA mechanism in detail. Moreover, a sensor application of the proposed MA is introduced to show additional feature of the model. As a result, proposed MA enables myriad potential applications in S band radar and medical technologies.