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Wide angle and broadband perfect absorber with compact multilayer structures

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Chaoyi Yin

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Meiping Zhu

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Jian Sun

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Kui Yi

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Jianda Shao

R&D Center of Optical Thin Films, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984917501366Cited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We design and numerically investigate a wide angle and broadband perfect absorber with compact multilayer structures. The proposed structure is composed of three stacks of semiconductor films and one metal layer. The absorber presents a broadband absorption between 450 nm and 700 nm with an average absorption above 99.2%. For oblique incidence, the absorber shows an average absorption about 90% for a wide range of incident angles from 0 $^{\circ}$ $^{\circ}$ to 60 $^{\circ}$ $^{\circ}$ with p polarization and s polarization. The electrical field intensity distributions are also studied to disclose the broadband absorption mechanism. This designed broadband absorber appears to have very promising applications in solar thermal energy harvesting, thermal emitters and detection.

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