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Dark Mode Driven Extra-narrow and Multiband Absorber

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Recently, metamaterial absorbers have received tremendous amount of interest because of their remarkable ability to manipulate the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. However, most absorbers rely on the direct coupling of electric or magnetic field with external excitation, which lead to inevitable energy leakage to the surrounding environment and depress the quality factor of the structure. In this work, we investigate the multiband absorption property by exciting dark plasmonic modes in reflective symmetric and asymmetric metamaterials. Theoretically, the existence of dark plasmonic modes in asymmetric metamaterials is unambiguously illustrated by the improved eigen-mode theory. With the introduction of asymmetry, dark modes in metamaterials can be easily excited by normal incident plane wave. Moreover, we also directly excite the dark modes in symmetric absorber with oblique incidence. The dark modes splitting mechanism is also clarified with the excitation of designer surface plasmon. Dominated by magnetic dipole or higher-order multipole, these dark modes possess high quality factors (Q). Numerical results indicate that the metamaterial absorber maintains high absorbance within a wide-angle incidence (0~50°). The high Q asymmetric metamaterial absorber can be an excellent candidate for multiband plasmonic sensor.

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The authors acknowledge the support provided by the State Key Program for Basic Research of China (2013CB632705, 2011CB922004), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10990104, 11334008, and 61290301), the Fund of Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation (13JC1408800, 16ZR1445300), Shanghai Sailing Program (16YF1413200), and Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2017285).

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Su, X., Li, G., Yang, H. et al. Dark Mode Driven Extra-narrow and Multiband Absorber. Plasmonics 13, 729–735 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-017-0565-6

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