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Efficient multiband absorber based on 1D periodic metal-dielectric photonic crystals with a reflective substrate

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 نشر من قبل Cui Yanxia
 تاريخ النشر 2013
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We propose an efficient multiband absorber comprising a truncated one-dimensional periodic metal-dielectric photonic crystal and a reflective substrate. The reflective substrate is actually an optically thick metallic film. Such a planar device is easier to fabricate compared with the absorbers with complicated shapes. For a 4-unit cell device, all of the four absorption peaks can be optimized with efficiencies higher than 95%. Moreover, those absorption peaks are insensitive to both polarization and incident angle. The influences of the geometrical parameters along with the refractive index of the dielectric on the device performance are discussed as well. Furthermore, it is found that the number of absorption peaks within each photonic band exactly corresponds to the number of the unit cells because the truncated photonic crystal lattices have the function of selecting resonant modes. It is also displayed that the total absorption efficiency gradually increases when there are more metal-dielectric unit cells placing on top of the metallic substrate. Our work is expected to have some potential applications in the areas of solar energy harvesting and thermal emission tailoring.

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