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Design and model of wideband absorber made of ultrathin metamaterial structures

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A planar microwave ultrathin broadband absorber is proposed. It is composed of metallic patterns arranged on a dielectric material which is backed by a copper plate. The patterns of different dimensions allow to judiciously design absorption peaks at specific frequencies of interest. These peaks are due to the mode resonances of the cavities formed by the metallic patches, the dielectric substrate and the copper plate. In order to widen the absorption bandwidth, patterns of different dimensions are used, together with the different modes of these cavities. Numerical and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed method at microwave frequencies. It is also shown that the use of a composite air dielectric substrate supporting the metallic patterns helps to increase the absorption level.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) for the financial support of the REI project “Novel Metamaterial-based Radar Absorbing Structures” under Contract No. 2009-34-0030. The authors also thank S. Gransart for fruitful discussions.

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  1. CNRS, UMR 8622, IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Alexandre Sellier, Tatiana V. Teperik, Shah Nawaz Burokur & André de Lustrac

  2. Univ. Paris-Ouest, 92410, Ville d’Avray, France

    Shah Nawaz Burokur & André de Lustrac

  3. Airbus Group Innovations, 92000, Suresnes, France

    Guy Sabanowski & Gérard-Pascal Piau

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Sellier, A., Teperik, T.V., Burokur, S.N. et al. Design and model of wideband absorber made of ultrathin metamaterial structures. Appl. Phys. A 117, 739–746 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8698-3

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