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Abstract
This study is aimed to present an ultra-broadband metamaterial absorber for infrared detection and thermal emitter applications. Despite numerous studies on metamaterial absorbers, achieving ultra-broadband absorption remains a challenge. We introduce a dual-gold square array with transverse magnetic polarization and combine it with an anti-reflective (GaAs) layer and metal-insulator (gold-Al2O3) configurations. The absorber achieves over 90 % absorption between 0.63 μm and 2.90 μm, with average and effective absorptions at 94.60 % and 94.68 %, respectively. Through impedance matching theory, we validate the performance of the absorber, analyze electric field distributions to explain its mechanism, and assess manufacturing tolerance for practical application viability. Our findings reveal robust performance of the metamaterial absorber across a wide spectral range, including insensitivity to incidence angles, with absorption over 80 % in 20–60°, highlighting its potential in the infrared detection and the thermal emitter.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal of Thermal Sciences is a journal devoted to the publication of fundamental studies on the physics of transfer processes in general, with an emphasis on thermal aspects and also applied research on various processes, energy systems and the environment. Articles are published in English and French, and are subject to peer review.
The fundamental subjects considered within the scope of the journal are:
* Heat and relevant mass transfer at all scales (nano, micro and macro) and in all types of material (heterogeneous, composites, biological,...) and fluid flow
* Forced, natural or mixed convection in reactive or non-reactive media
* Single or multi–phase fluid flow with or without phase change
* Near–and far–field radiative heat transfer
* Combined modes of heat transfer in complex systems (for example, plasmas, biological, geological,...)
* Multiscale modelling
The applied research topics include:
* Heat exchangers, heat pipes, cooling processes
* Transport phenomena taking place in industrial processes (chemical, food and agricultural, metallurgical, space and aeronautical, automobile industries)
* Nano–and micro–technology for energy, space, biosystems and devices
* Heat transport analysis in advanced systems
* Impact of energy–related processes on environment, and emerging energy systems
The study of thermophysical properties of materials and fluids, thermal measurement techniques, inverse methods, and the developments of experimental methods are within the scope of the International Journal of Thermal Sciences which also covers the modelling, and numerical methods applied to thermal transfer.