Metamaterials for Perfect Absorption (eBook)

Prof. YoungPak Lee is Distinguished Professor in Department of Physics in Hanyang University, Director in Quantum Photonic Science Research Center and Chairman in Committee for Basic Science Education in Academy of Science and Technology. His present research activity is; magnetic photo crystals and metamaterials and applications to renewable energy; magneto-optical, magnetic, optical and transport properties, and electronic structures of thin films and nano structures; nanoscopic investigation of morphology and magnetic domain; nonlinear and time-resolved magneto-optical spectroscopy; magnetic semiconductors based on oxides; analysis of magnetic surfaces and films by using synchrotron radiation; magnetic bio-systems; characterization of the surfaces and interfaces of thin films including multilayers. Prof. Lee was the President of Koran Physical Society and Korean Federation of Physics-related Societies. He published 642 SCI papers and h-index is 44. Joo Yull Rhee received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1978, the M.S. degree from KAIST, Korea, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, USA, in 1992, all in physics. He is a professor of Physics Department of Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. His current research interests include the optical properties of metamaterials and the electronic-structure calculations of mostly magnetic materials.  He has published over 170 scientific journal papers on the optical properties of metamaterials and the optical and magneto-optical properties of magnetic materials.Young Joon Yoo also investigates metamaterial absorbers and applications, and multiferroic flexible films as Researcher at Dept. Physics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He received a Ph.D. in Physics at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2014. He worked as Associate Research Engineer at R&D Dept., Scinco Inc., Korea, from 2006 to 2010.Ki Won Kim received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1995. He is working as a professor at Department of Information Display, Sunmoon University, Asan, Korea, from 1996. He worked as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society during 2013-2014. His research interests include metamaterials working in the MHz to THz regime, magnetic and magneto-optical properties of thin films, and analysis of magnetic surface and thin films by using synchrotron radiation. 

Preface 6
Contents 8
1 Introduction 10
Abstract 10
References 14
2 Theoretical Backgrounds 19
Abstract 19
2.1 Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Matter 19
2.1.1 Boundary Conditions and Fresnel Equations 23
2.1.2 Dispersion Relations 25
2.2 Perfect Electromagnetic-Wave Absorbers 28
2.2.1 Broadband Perfect Absorbers 28
2.2.2 Resonant Perfect Absorbers 35
2.2.3 Metamaterial-Based Perfect Absorbers 39
2.3 Effective-Medium Approximation 43
2.4 Equivalent-Circuit Theory and Transmission-Line Theory 47
2.5 Numerical Techniques 53
2.5.1 Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method 53
2.5.2 Finite-Element Method 56
2.5.3 Transfer-Matrix Method 57
References 60
3 MMPAs Operating in Different Frequency Ranges 62
Abstract 62
3.1 MMPAs Operating in the GHz Range 62
3.2 MMPAs Operating in the THz Range 76
3.3 MMPAs Operating in the Infrared and Optical Ranges 86
References 103
4 MMPA, Based on Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency 106
Abstract 106
4.1 Introduction 106
4.2 Narrow Perfect Absorbers Based on Plasmonic Analog of Electromagnetically-Induced Absorption 109
4.3 Broadband Perfect Absorbers Based on Asymmetry Resonators 113
4.4 Summary 117
References 118
5 Broadband and Tunable MMPA 120
Abstract 120
References 147
6 Polarization-Independent and Wide-Incident-Angle Metamaterial Perfect Absorber 149
Abstract 149
6.1 Introduction 149
6.2 Dependence of Electromagnetic Polarization on Metamaterial Perfect Absorber 150
6.3 Wide-Incident-Angle Metamaterial Perfect Absorber 160
6.4 Summary 171
References 171
7 Perspectives 174
Abstract 174
References 177
Index 179