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Ultrabroadband Microwave Metamaterial Absorber Based on Electric SRR Loaded with Lumped Resistors

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An ultrabroadband microwave metamaterial absorber (MMA) based on an electric split-ring resonator (ESRR) loaded with lumped resistors is presented. Compared with an ESRR MMA, the composite MMA (CMMA) loaded with lumped resistors offers stronger absorption over an extremely extended bandwidth. The reflectance simulated under different substrate loss conditions indicates that incident electromagnetic (EM) wave energy is mainly consumed by the lumped resistors. The simulated surface current and power loss density distributions further illustrate the mechanism underlying the observed absorption. Further simulation results indicate that the performance of the CMMA can be tuned by adjusting structural parameters of the ESRR and lumped resistor parameters. We fabricated and measured MMA and CMMA samples. The CMMA yielded below −10 dB reflectance from 4.4 GHz to 18 GHz experimentally, with absorption bandwidth and relative bandwidth of 13.6 GHz and 121.4%, respectively. This ultrabroadband microwave absorber has potential applications in the electromagnetic energy harvesting and stealth fields.

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This work was partly supported by the Youth science and technology backbone cultivation plan project of Wuhan University of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2016xz010).

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  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, People’s Republic of China

    Jingcheng Zhao

  2. School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, People’s Republic of China

    Yongzhi Cheng

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Zhao, J., Cheng, Y. Ultrabroadband Microwave Metamaterial Absorber Based on Electric SRR Loaded with Lumped Resistors. J. Electron. Mater. 45, 5033–5039 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-016-4693-0

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