A broadband omnidirectional absorber based on a hetero-structure composed of a collision plasma and a ternary plasma Bragg mirror

Abstract

A broadband omnidirectional absorber which is realized by heterostructures containing a collision plasma layer and a ternary plasma Bragg mirror is theoretically investigated. A collision plasma layer and an appropriate dielectric layer are put on the top of the ternary plasma photonic crystals to obtain a broadband omnidirectional absorption. It is shown to absorb roughly 70% of all available electromagnetic wave in a relative omnidirectional absorption band width 0.58 GHz with plasma width 3 mm in PCs. The band edges are impacted by the range of reflection band gap and the absorption range for transverse magnetic (TM) wave decreases at large incidence. Compared with some previous designs, our proposed structure has a relative flatter total absorption spectrum over a broad frequency range in microwave. This kind of hererostructures offer additional opportunities to design novel optoelectronic devices.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions. This work was supported by the supports from Chinese Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20123218110017), the Jiangshu Province Science Foundation (Grant No.BK2011727), the Foundation of Aeronautical Science (No. 20121852030), Open Research Program in Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing (Grant No.KDXS1207) and Funding for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in NUAA (Grant No.BCXJ11-05).