A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial

作者:Alaee, Rasoul*; Farhat, Mohamed; Rockstuhl, Carsten; Lederer, Falk
来源:Optics Express, 2012, 20(27): 28017-28024.
DOI:10.1364/OE.20.028017

摘要

Metamaterial-based perfect absorbers promise many applications. Perfect absorption is characterized by the complete suppression of transmission and reflection and complete dissipation of the incident energy by the absorptive meta-atoms. A certain absorption spectrum is usually assigned to a bulk medium and serves as a signature of the respective material. Here we show how to use graphene flakes as building blocks for perfect absorbers. Then, an absorbing meta-atom only consists of a molecular monolayer placed at an appropriate distance from a metallic ground plate. We show that the functionality of such device is intuitively and correctly explained by a Fabry-Perot model.

  • 出版日期2012-12-17