Wideband, thin, and polarization-insensitive perfect absorber based the double octagonal rings metamaterials and lumped resistances

By loading the lumped resistances into the double octagonal rings metamaterials, a wideband, thin, and polarization-insensitive perfect absorber is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The perfect absorber is constructed of double octagonal rings loading the eight lumped resistances and the substrate with height of 3 mm. The effects of the double octagonal rings and eight lumped resistances are explored by absorption and the electric field distributions. The simulated results indicate that the structure obtains 9.25 GHz-wide absorption from 7.93 to 17.18 GHz with absorptivity larger than 90% at the incident angles from 0 degrees to 20 degrees and achieves above 12.2 GHz-wide absorption from 5.8 to 18 GHz with a full width at half maximum at wide incident angles from 0 degrees to 70 degrees. The fabricated metamaterial absorber device was measured and analyzed. A good agreement is observed between the simulation and the measurement. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.