I. Introduction.
II. Theoretical Backgrounds.
II.1. Interaction of electromagnetic waves with matter.
II.2. Broadband Absorber.
II.3. Salisbury screen or frequency-selective surface.
II.4. Metamaterial-based perfect absorber (MMPA).
II.5. Effective-medium approximation.
III. MMPA operating in different frequency ranges.
III.1. MMPA operating in the GHz range.
III.2. MMPA operating in the THz range.
III.3. MMPA operating in the infrared and optical ranges.
IV. MMPA, based on electromagnetically-induced transparency.
V. Broadband and tunable MMPA.
VI. Polarization-independent and wide-incident-angle MMPA.
VII. Perspectives and future works.
Index.
About the Author:
Prof. YoungPak Lee is Distinguished Professor in Department of Physics in Hanyang University, Director in Quantum Photonic Science Research Center and Chairman in Committee for Basic Science Education in Academy of Science and Technology. His present research activity is; magnetic photo crystals and metamaterials and applications to renewable energy; magneto-optical, magnetic, optical and transport properties, and electronic structures of thin films and nano structures; nanoscopic investigation of morphology and magnetic domain; nonlinear and time-resolved magneto-optical spectroscopy; magnetic semiconductors based on oxides; analysis of magnetic surfaces and films by using synchrotron radiation; magnetic bio-systems; characterization of the surfaces and interfaces of thin films including multilayers. Prof. Lee was the President of Koran Physical Society and Korean Federation of Physics-related Societies. He published 642 SCI papers and h-index is 44.
Joo Yull Rhee received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1978, the M.S. degree from KAIST, Korea, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, USA, in 1992, all in physics. He is a professor of Physics Department of Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. His current research interests include the optical properties of metamaterials and the electronic-structure calculations of mostly magnetic materials. He has published over 170 scientific journal papers on the optical properties of metamaterials and the optical and magneto-optical properties of magnetic materials.