Abstract-Graphene metascreen for designing compact infrared absorbers with enhanced bandwidth

Pai-Yen Chen1, Mohamed Farhat2 and Hakan Bağcı2
http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/26/16/164002

pychen@wayne.edu mohamed.farhat@kaust.edu.sa

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
2 Division of Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia 

We propose a compact, wideband terahertz and infrared absorber, comprising a patterned graphene sheet on a thin metal-backed dielectric slab. This graphene-based nanostructure can achieve a low or negative effective permeability, necessary for realizing the perfect absorption. The dual-reactive property found in both the plasmonic graphene sheet and the grounded high-permittivity slab introduces extra poles into the equivalent circuit model of the system, thereby resulting in a dual-band or broadband magnetic resonance that enhances the absorption bandwidth. More interestingly, the two-dimensional patterned graphene sheet significantly simplifies the design and fabrication processes for achieving resonant magnetic response, and allows the frequency-reconfigurable operation via electrostatic gating.