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Perfect Narrowband Absorber Based on Patterned Graphene-Silica Multilayer Hyperbolic Metamaterials

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Graphene-based hyperbolic metamaterials are well known for their optical anisotropy, high absorption of electromagnetic radiation, and low energy loss. We proposed a novel multilayer graphene-silica hyperbolic metamaterial designed as a grating structure providing narrowband near-perfect absorption of radiation in a mid-infrared band. The absorber is designed for insensitivity of the absorptance peak positioning on the angle of the incident radiation and distinct polarization selectivity of absorption for the TM mode only. A new way of handling the absorption is achieved by varying the thickness of its combined graphene-silica layers. Possibly, the type of absorber will be applicable in the fields of optical sensing, photoelectric detection, and other potential fields.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11504139, 11504140, 11811530052), the Intergovernmental Science and Technology Regular Meeting Exchange Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (CB02-20), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M611693, 2018T110440), the Grant of State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus (F19KITG-017), the Project of State Key Laboratory of solid microstructure physics of Nanjing University (Grant No. M32056), the Nature Science Foundation of Xuzhou University of Technology (No. XKY2018122), Dongdong Liu is supported by Jiangsu Qinglan Project.

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  1. School of Science, Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industrial Optoelectronic Engineering and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Yan Feng, Zheng-Da Hu, Jicheng Wang & Tian Sang

  2. Department of Optics and General Physics, Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Sovetskaya Str. 104, 246019, Gomel, Belarus

    Aliaksei Balmakou, Sergei Khakhomov & Igor Semchenko

  3. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jicheng Wang

  4. School of Mathematics & Physics Science, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, 221018, China

    Dongdong Liu

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Feng, Y., Hu, ZD., Balmakou, A. et al. Perfect Narrowband Absorber Based on Patterned Graphene-Silica Multilayer Hyperbolic Metamaterials. Plasmonics 15, 1869–1874 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01202-x

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