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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Polarization-Independent Ultra-Wideband Metamaterial Absorber for Solar Harvesting at Infrared Regime.

Asraful Alam, Sikder Sunbeam Islam, Md Hobaibul Islam, Ali F Almutairi, Mohammad Tariqul Islam

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Asraful AlamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong 4318, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-6566-0005
Sikder Sunbeam IslamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong 4318, Bangladesh.
Md Hobaibul IslamDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong 4318, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-2948-0218
Ali F AlmutairiElectrical Engineering Department, Kuwait University, Kuwait City 13060, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0001-8254-1262
Mohammad Tariqul IslamDepartment of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-4929-3209

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents an ultra-wideband metamaterial absorber for solar harvesting in the infrared regime (220-360 THz) of the solar spectrum. The proposed absorber consists of square-shaped copper patches of different sizes imposed on a GaAs (Gallium arsenide) substrate. The design and simulation of the unit cell are performed with finite integration technique (FIT)-based simulation software. Scattering parameters are retrieved during the simulation process. The constructed design offers absorbance above 90% within a 37.89% relative bandwidth and 99.99% absorption over a vast portion of the investigated frequency range. An equivalent circuit model is presented to endorse the validity of the proposed structure. The calculated result strongly agrees with the simulated result. Symmetrical construction of the proposed unit cell reports an angular insensitivity up to a 35° oblique incidence. Post-processed simulation data confirm that the design is polarization-insensitive.

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metamaterial absorberpolarization independentsolar harvestingultra-wideband

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PMID32512784
PMCPMC7321479

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