Title
Review on Metamaterial Perfect Absorbers and Their Applications to IoT
Abstract
Future Internet of Things (IoT) devices are expected to be fully ubiquitous. To achieve this vision, a new generation of IoT devices needs to be developed, which can operate autonomously. To achieve autonomy, IoT devices must be completely wireless, both in terms of transmission and power. Further, accurate sensing is another crucial parameter of autonomy. Several wireless standards have been developed for improving the efficiency of IoT applications. However, the powering of IoT devices, sensor accuracy, and efficiency of electronic devices are open research problems in literature. With the advent of metamaterial perfect absorbers (MPAs), electromagnetic waves can be used as a source of energy, to enable sensing of the phenomenon and as a carrier for exchanging data. In this article, an extensive application-based investigation has been conducted on design principles and various methods of enhancing MPA characteristics. Moreover, the current applications that benefit from MPA, such as absorption of undesired frequencies, optical switching, energy harvesting, and sensing, are investigated. Finally, some implemented examples of MPA in industrial applications are provided along with possible directions for future work and open research areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/JIOT.2020.3025585
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Absorber,Internet of Things (IoT),IoT enabling,metamaterial,metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA),MPA applications,MPA design methods
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
2327-4662
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Majid Amiri110.69
Farzad Tofigh242.42
Negin Shariati362.66
Justin Lipman43210.19
Mehran Abolhasan545148.95