New absorbing boundary conditions and analytical model for multilayered mushroom-type metamaterials: Applications to wideband absorbers

An analytical model is presented for the analysis of multilayer wire media loaded with 2-D arrays of thin material terminations, characterized in general by a complex surface conductivity. This includes the cases of resistive, thin metal, or graphene patches and impedance ground planes. The model is...

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Autores: Padooru, Yashwanth R., Yakovlev, Alexander B., Kaipa, Chandra S.R., Hanson, George W., Medina Mena, Francisco, Mesa Ledesma, Francisco Luis, Glisson, Allen W.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/97304
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/97304
https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2012.2209196
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Absorbing boundary conditions
Dispersive media
Electromagnetic scattering by absorbing media
Impedance boundary conditions
Multilayered media
Resistive sheets
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Sumario:An analytical model is presented for the analysis of multilayer wire media loaded with 2-D arrays of thin material terminations, characterized in general by a complex surface conductivity. This includes the cases of resistive, thin metal, or graphene patches and impedance ground planes. The model is based on the nonlocal homogenization of the wire media with additional boundary conditions (ABCs) at the connection of thin (resistive) material. Based on charge conservation, new ABCs are derived for the interface of two uniaxial wire mediums with thin imperfect conductors at the junction. To illustrate the application of the analytical model and to validate the new ABCs, we characterize the reflection properties of multilayer absorbing structures. It is shown that in such configurations the presence of vias results in the enhancement of the absorption bandwidth and an improvement in the absorptivity performance for increasing angles of an obliquely incident TM-polarized plane wave. The results obtained using the analytical model are validated against full-wave numerical simulations.