Metamaterials for Perfect Absorption

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practical development of metamaterial-based perfect absorbers (MMPAs). It beginswith a brief history of MMPAs which reviews the various theoretical and experimental milestones in their development. The theoretical backgroundand fundamental working principles of MMPAs are then discussed, providing the necessary background on how MMPAs work and areconstructed. There then follows a section describing how different MMPAs are designed and built according to the operating frequency of theelectromagnetic wave, and how their behavior is changed. Methods of fabricating and characterizing MMPAs are then presented. The book elaborates on the performance and characteristics of MMPAs, including electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT). It also coversrecent advances in MMPAs and their applications, including multi-band, broadband, tunability, polarization independence and incidenceindependence. Suitable for graduate students in optical sciences and electronic engineering, it will also serve as a valuable reference for active researchers in these fields.