Metamaterials (MMs) offer great potential for achieving optical absorption due to their novel
electromagnetic properties. MM absorbers can overcome the thickness limitation and …

Perfect absorbers (PAs) are devices that can realize the annihilation of incident
electromagnetic waves (EMWs) by eliminating reflection and transmission. Such engineered …

Solar energy absorption is a very important field in photonics. The successful development
of an efficient, wide-band solar absorber is an extremely powerful driver in this field. We …

Electromagnetic wave absorbers with very long absorption spectra have become an
important target for optoelectronic materials and technology. In this paper, we propose a …

We present an ultra-broadband perfect absorber composed of metal-insulator composite
multilayer (MICM) stacks by placing the insulator-metal-insulator (IMI) grating on the metal …

The efficient harvesting of electromagnetic (EM) waves by subwavelength nanostructures
can result in perfect light absorption in the narrow or broad frequency range. These …

Solar radiation is mainly concentrated in the visible and infrared spectra ranges, and its
perfect absorption has great significance to solar cell, energy harvester, emitter, perfect …

We report a polarization-independent unnaturally high refractive index metamaterial. It is
found that the effective permittivity of the designed metamaterial can be drastically increased …

We report a numerical study of a broadband metamaterial absorber in visible light region by
utilizing a single layer of metal-dielectric-metal configuration. The absorption bandwidth and …

Metamaterial perfect absorbers (MPAs) with dynamic thermal tuning features are able to
control the absorption performance of the resonances, providing diverse applications …