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A light weight and broadband metamaterial absorber with 3D cube unit cells

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Metamaterial absorber (MA) with lossless spacing substrate is accompanied by total reflection which is a defect for the broadband design. In this paper, a theoretical transmission-line study of the total reflection is presented to introduce a 3D structural solution: a MA with polyurethane foam inserted by lateral resistive sheets and sandwiched between surface-resistive sheets and grounded aluminum foil. By virtue of the effective parallel plate capacitors formed between the neighboring square-resistive sheets which are perpendicular to the incident electric field, electromagnetic loss is generated from the charges accumulate and ohmic loss on them. As a result, the original total reflection (at f = 10 GHz) can be eliminated and a broadband absorption (from 2.88 to 18 GHz) with absorbance more than 90% is obtained for the proposed light weight (5.64 × 10−5 g/mm3) 3D MA. The measurement result has a good agreement with simulation. This design opens up opportunities for the absorption bandwidth enhancement of MA and can be extended to infrared or optical region.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partly supported by the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Multi-spectral Absorbing Materials and Structures, Ministry of Education under Grant ZYGX2013K007-3, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no. 61001026 and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT).

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  1. National Engineering Research Center of Electromagnetic Radiation Control Materials, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Guorui Zhang, Yang Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Haiyan Chen & Longjiang Deng

  2. Key Laboratory of Multi-spectral Absorbing Materials and Structures of Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Guorui Zhang, Yang Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Haiyan Chen & Longjiang Deng

  3. Kuang-Chi Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, 518057, China

    Li Wang

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Zhang, G., Wang, L., Zhou, Y. et al. A light weight and broadband metamaterial absorber with 3D cube unit cells. Appl. Phys. A 124, 453 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-1869-x

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