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Split-cube-resonator-based metamaterials for polarization-selective asymmetric perfect absorption.

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Authors

Tsilipakos, Odysseas 
Kenanakis, George 
Farsari, Maria 
Soukoulis, Costas M 

Abstract

A split-cube-resonator-based metamaterial structure that can act as a polarization- and direction-selective perfect absorber for the infrared region is theoretically and experimentally demonstrated. The structure, fabricated by direct laser writing and electroless silver plating, is comprised of four layers of conductively-coupled split-cube magnetic resonators, appropriately rotated to each other to bestow the desired electromagnetic properties. We show narrowband polarization-selective perfect absorption when the structure is illuminated from one side; the situation is reversed when illuminating from the other side, with the orthogonal linear polarization being absorbed. The absorption peak can be tuned in a wide frequency range by a sparser or denser arrangement of the split cube resonators, allowing to cover the entire atmospheric transparency window. The proposed metamaterial structure can find applications in polarization-selective thermal emission at the IR atmospheric transparency window for radiative cooling, in cost-effective infrared sensing devices, and in narrowband filters and linear polarizers in reflection mode.

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40 Engineering, 4006 Communications Engineering, 4009 Electronics, Sensors and Digital Hardware, 51 Physical Sciences, 5103 Classical Physics

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Journal ISSN

2045-2322
2045-2322

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10

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC