Open AccessMetamaterial optical filter with maximal absorption coefficient
Author(s) -
Daniela Ionescu,
Gabriela Apreotesei
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1182/1/012031
Subject(s) - metamaterial , hfss , materials science , optics , refractive index , dielectric , attenuation coefficient , metamaterial absorber , transmission coefficient , absorption (acoustics) , wavelength , transmission (telecommunications) , optoelectronics , physics , antenna (radio) , telecommunications , tunable metamaterials , microstrip antenna , computer science
Tunable transmission and absorption coefficients in visible and infrared range have been obtained for metamaterial filters with a structure of metal on dielectric nanocomponents. Materials were stacks of nanoconstituents placed in alternate layers, which present a maximum or a minimum of the transmission coefficient and convenient values of the absorption coefficient when the periodicity is interrupted in a controlled manner. A simulational set-up with the metamaterial sample in a channel waveguide was conceived for obtaining the S parameters at the field propagation, using the HFSS program. The plasmon dispersion at the metal / dielectric interface was taken into account for calculating the frequency dependent surface plasmon wave vector, which can be adjusted by modifying the refractive index and the electric permittivities of the constituents. Transmission coefficients have been calculated for different structure geometries. The optimal metamaterial configurations have been chosen, in function of the desired filtering effect, for a range of incident field wavelength of 600 – 900 nm. A transmission variation of about 50 … 80 % at the central frequency, in comparison with the transmission effects in the side bands has been demonstrated for the proposed metamaterial filters.