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Numerical investigation of graphene-based efficient and broadband metasurface for terahertz solar absorber

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Graphene-based efficient metasurface solar absorber is presented. Graphene monolayer sheet is integrated over silicon dioxide dielectric layer to improve the bandwidth and achieve maximum absorption in the visible region from 430 to 770 THz. Simulation results indicate that the average absorption of our graphene-based metasurface absorber is more than 84% in the visible range. The absorber C-shape metasurface top layer placed above the graphene sheet is made up of tungsten material, and bottom layer made up of tungsten material helps in absorbing incoming electromagnetic light. The resonance frequency can be tuned in a wide frequency range by changing different physical parameters of proposed absorbers design. The absorption efficiency results of the proposed design are also compared with previously published similar absorber design to show the improvement of absorption in the proposed design. The proposed design is useful for designing next-generation graphene-based sensors and photovoltaic devices. Purposed graphene-based metasurface absorber can be used as a basic building block of solar energy-harvesting photovoltaic devices.

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Authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by Marwadi University, Rajkot and Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam for this research.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, 360002, India

    Rajendrasinh Jadeja

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, 360002, India

    Shreyas Charola, Shobhit K. Patel, Juveriya Parmar & Mayurkumar Ladumor

  3. Department of Physics, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, 360002, India

    Shobhit K. Patel & Juveriya Parmar

  4. Division of Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Truong Khang Nguyen & Vigneswaran Dhasarathan

  5. Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Truong Khang Nguyen & Vigneswaran Dhasarathan

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Jadeja, R., Charola, S., Patel, S.K. et al. Numerical investigation of graphene-based efficient and broadband metasurface for terahertz solar absorber. J Mater Sci 55, 3462–3469 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-04269-y

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