Regular Article

Tunable multi-band absorption in metasurface of graphene ribbons based on composite structure

¹ School of Information Engineering, Huangshan University, 245041 Huangshan, P.R. China
² School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, 245041 Huangshan, P.R. China

^a e-mail: nrxxiner@hsu.edu.cn

Received: 27 October 2016
Revised: 1 December 2016
Accepted: 21 April 2017
Published online: 30 May 2017

Abstract

A tunable multiband absorption based on a graphene metasurface of composite structure at mid-infrared frequency was investigated by the finite difference time domain method. The composite structure were composed of graphene ribbons and a gold-MgF₂ layer which was sandwiched in between two dielectric slabs. The permittivity of graphene is discussed with different chemical potential to obtain tunable absorption. And the absorption of the composite structure can be tuned by the chemical potential of graphene at certain frequencies. The impedance matching was used to study the perfect absorption of the structure in our paper. The results show that multi-band absorption can be obtained and some absorption peaks of the composite structure can be tuned through the changing not only of the width of graphene ribbons and gaps, but also the dielectric and the chemical potential of graphene. However, another peak was hardly changed by parameters due to a different resonant mechanism in proposed structure. This flexibily tunable multiband absorption may be applied to optical communications such as optical absorbers, mid infrared stealth devices and filters.