An ultrathin metasurface-based absorber consisting of titanium nitride (TiN) nano-disk arrays–dielectric layer-TiN substrate is proposed in this paper. The absorber exhibits near-unity absorption in the whole visible range of 380–780 nm. Our results demonstrate that the proposed metasurface-based absorber is not only independent of light polarization, but also exhibits angle-independent absorption behavior for oblique incidence up to 70 $^{\circ}$ $^{\circ}$ . The high absorption performance of the TiN nano-disk arrays-based absorber can attribute to two different loss mechanisms associated with the intrinsic loss and plasmonic resonance.

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