Broadband Bi-Directional All-Dielectric Transparent Metamaterial Absorber

Abstract

Water-based absorbers have shown great development potential in the past few years. In this paper, an all-dielectric transparent bi-directional water-based broadband metamaterial absorber is designed. The simulation results indicate that absorptance of the absorber is over 90% in 5.7–41.6 GHz, and its fraction bandwidth is 151.8%. The experimental results are greatly consistent with the simulations. The designed absorber has excellent performances of polarization insensitivity, oblique incidence stability and thermal stability. When the absorptance is more than 0.8, the maximum incident angle reaches 40° in TE mode and is over 60° in TM mode. In 0–80 °C, absorptance of the absorber is hardly changed. Because of the optical transparency of the designed absorber, it can be extensively used in stealth window weapons and electromagnetic compatibility equipment.