Title
An Active Metamaterial Absorber With Ultrawideband Continuous Tunability
Abstract
In this paper, an active metamaterial (MM) absorber loaded with PIN diodes is proposed. By adjusting the bias currents of PIN diodes to change the value of the introduced equivalent resistance, the Q factors of multiple resonances of the whole structure are altered. Therefore, multiple broadband absorption states with moderate absorption performance at different frequencies are obtained. These states cover continuously tunable absorption frequencies in an ultrabroad frequency band. Bias circuits for PIN diodes are also specially designed to obtain polarization-insensitive absorption performance. Optimizing works were carried out by analyzing the operating mechanism based on the simulated field distribution and power loss distribution. The presented absorber covers an ultrawideband absorption bandwidth with a reflection coefficient below -10 dB from 0.78 GHz to 4.62 GHz (142.2% in relative bandwidth) by adjusting the PIN diodes. It is worth noting that the absorption bandwidth of the low-resistance state reaches 21.0% in the P band, which greatly improves performance in the low-frequency regime. The absorber also shows good angular stability under oblique incident angles from 0 degrees to 30 degrees. In addition, the total thickness of the absorber is only 1/16 of the wavelength at the lowest operating frequency with an areal density of 2.06 kg/m(2).
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3155688
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Absorption, PIN photodiodes, Resonant frequency, Resistance, Bandwidth, Reflectivity, Inductors, Electromagnetic absorbers, active metamaterials, PIN diodes, ultrawideband tunability
Journal
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zonghuan Wu100.34
JunMing Zhao2191.52
Ke Chen300.34
YiJun Feng4384.13