Novel triple-band polarization-insensitive wide-angle ultra-thin microwave metamaterial absorber

We report the design, analysis, fabrication, and measurement of a novel microwave triple-band metamaterial absorber that obtains three distinct high absorption peaks. The absorber is constructed of a periodic array of new resonant structure printed on a dielectric material with the thickness of lambda/67 at the lowest fundamental resonant frequency. By manipulating the periodic patterned structures, significantly high absorption can be obtained at three specific resonance frequencies. This kind of triple-band absorber is polarization insensitive, and the absorption peaks remain high with large angles of incidence for both transverse electric and transverse magnetic polarizations, which provide more efficient absorptions for non-polarized or oblique incident electromagnetic wave. The experimental results show excellent absorption rates and the characteristic of polarization-insensitive for a wide range of incidence angles in the desired frequencies, which are in good correspondence with the simulated results. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.