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High-Performance Water-Based Metamaterial Wave Absorber Based on Ku Band

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Traditional absorbing materials have certain limitations in coping with complex electromagnetic environments. As an area of significant concern in research, water-based metamaterial absorbers are expected to become one of the essential solutions to the current electromagnetic wave pollution problem. This paper uses rubber and a multi-layer water structure to design a metamaterial with high-performance absorption. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed water-based metamaterials are able to achieve 90% absorption in the frequency band from 11.17 to 25.16 GHz. Specifically, the Ku band’s average absorption rate reaches as high as 99.34%. The absorption characteristics of the water-based metamaterials include polarization insensitivity and wide-angle incidence in both TE and TM modes. Moreover, broadband absorption is achieved even at a large incident angle of the TM mode. The electric and magnetic field distributions indicate that the exceptional absorption of the water-based metamaterial relies primarily on the magnetic resonance generated by the multi-layer water structure. The proposed metamaterial is utilized for multiple-band signal shielding, effectively addressing communication signal interference and electromagnetic leakage from electronic equipment, and safeguarding against electromagnetic interference in practical applications.

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Due to the large size of the data, the datasets obtained and analyzed during this study are not publicly available, but the relevant design source files are available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.

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This was supported by the Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation youth project (No. 2023AFB019) and the Key Research and Development Program of the Hubei Province (2023BAB052).

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  1. Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China

    Xiangbo Luo, Bohan Cao, Jing Zhang & Zhaoyang Shen

  2. College of Computer and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China

    Xiangbo Luo, Bohan Cao, Jing Zhang & Zhaoyang Shen

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All authors were involved in the conception and design of the study, as well as the writing and revision of the manuscript. Model preparation and simulation data collection were done by Xiangbo Luo, and model optimization was done under the guidance of Jing Zhang and Zhaoyang Shen. The visualization and analysis of the experimental data was done by Bohan Cao. The first draft of the manuscript was co-authored by Xiangbo Luo and Bohan Cao, and all authors commented on the previous version of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Luo, X., Cao, B., Zhang, J. et al. High-Performance Water-Based Metamaterial Wave Absorber Based on Ku Band. Plasmonics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-024-02289-2

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