Review of broadband metamaterial absorbers: from principles, design strategies, and tunable properties to functional applications

BX Wang, C Xu, G Duan, W Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterial absorbers have been widely studied and continuously concerned owing to
their excellent resonance features of ultra‐thin thickness, light‐weight, and high absorbance …

Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials

D Lee, S So, G Hu, M Kim, T Badloe, H Cho, J Kim… - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Optical metamaterials have presented an innovative method of manipulating light.
Hyperbolic metamaterials have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion …

Ultra-wideband and wide-angle perfect solar energy absorber based on Ti nanorings surface plasmon resonance

F Zhou, F Qin, Z Yi, W Yao, Z Liu, X Wu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

High Absorptivity and Ultra-Wideband Solar Absorber Based on Ti-Al2O3 Cross Elliptical Disk Arrays

Y Zhang, Y Yi, W Li, S Liang, J Ma, S Cheng, W Yang… - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Perfect metamaterial absorbers have attracted researchers' attention in solar energy
harvesting and utilization. An ideal solar absorber should provide high absorption, be ultra …

Thermal photonics with broken symmetries

T Liu, C Guo, W Li, S Fan - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

Broadband metamaterial absorbers

P Yu, LV Besteiro, Y Huang, J Wu, L Fu… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

Engineering van der Waals materials for advanced metaphotonics

H Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, KT Lin, X Wen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation

L Zhou, Y Tan, D Ji, B Zhu, P Zhang, J Xu, Q Gan… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The study of ideal absorbers, which can efficiently absorb light over a broad range of
wavelengths, is of fundamental importance, as well as critical for many applications from …

Broadband polarization-insensitive and wide-angle solar energy absorber based on tungsten ring-disc array

Z Yi, J Li, J Lin, F Qin, X Chen, W Yao, Z Liu, S Cheng… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, solar energy is considered one of the most clean energy sources. In addition, the
data from the literature tell us that its main radiation bandwidth is approximately 295–2500 …

The revival of thermal utilization from the Sun: interfacial solar vapor generation

L Zhou, X Li, GW Ni, S Zhu, J Zhu - National Science Review, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Since solar energy is the ultimate energy resource and a significant amount of global energy
utilization goes through heat, there have been persistent efforts for centuries to develop …