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Design and analysis of a dual-broadband microwave metasurface absorber with flexibility and transparency

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A flexible, transparent and polarization-insensitive metasurface absorber (MA) with dual-broadband feature is proposed. The MA consists of absorption layer, transparent flexible polyvinyl chloride (PVC) dielectric layer, and indium tin oxide (ITO)/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottom plate. The dual-broadband characteristics are studied by transmission-line theory, numerical simulation and experiment. The experimental results indicate that over 90% absorptivity under the planar case is achieved in 10.85–26.01 GHz and 44.86–56.67 GHz, corresponding relative bandwidth are 82.23% and 23.26%, respectively. The light transmittance is 63.3%. Both theoretical analysis and simulated results are good accordance with the experiment. The influence of structural parameters on the dual-broadband absorption performance is studied. Moreover, the analysis of the impedance matching theory, surface current, magnetic field and electric field distributions and power loss density are given to explain the dual-band absorption mechanism. The proposed dual-broadband MA maintains good angular stability whether in planar (30°) or conformal (20°) cases. The MA has simple structure, high optical transparency and flexibility, it promises to be a good candidate for electromagnetic (EM) shielding room observation windows, touch panel controls, radio-frequency identification systems and transparent radio-frequency devices.

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This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China [Grant Number LH2020E012]; Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Number 51774092]; Young academic leaders of Blue Project of Universities in Jiangsu Province of China [Grant Number 202201022]; Industry Foresight and Key Technology Projects of Suzhou of China [Grant Number SYC2022149].

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    Weijun Yu, Lei Zhang, Xinke Wang & Xingbin Liu

  3. School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou, 215500, China

    Lianfu Han

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Model building and data collection were performed by WJY Data analysis and the first draft of the manuscript were written by CFF, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Fu, C., Yu, W., Zhang, L. et al. Design and analysis of a dual-broadband microwave metasurface absorber with flexibility and transparency. Opt Quant Electron 56, 291 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-06034-7

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