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Nano Research 2021, 14(5): 1495-1501 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3208-8
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From intrinsic dielectric loss to geometry patterns: Dual-principles strategy for ultrabroad band microwave absorption

Show Author's Information Bin Quan1,2,  Weihua Gu1,  Jiaqi Sheng1,  Xinfeng Lv3,  Yuyi Mao3,  Lie Liu4,  Xiaogu Huang2( ),  Zongjun Tian5( ),  Guangbin Ji1( )
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Additive Manufacturing Products Quality, Wuxi 214000, China
Shenzhen General Test Systems Inc, Taohuayuan Hi-Tech Park, Shenzhen 518102, China
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
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numerical simulation, geometry patterns, three-dimensional (3D) printing, broadband microwave absorption
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Quan B, Gu W, Sheng J, et al. From intrinsic dielectric loss to geometry patterns: Dual-principles strategy for ultrabroad band microwave absorption. Nano Research, 2021, 14(5): 1495-1501. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3208-8
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As electromagnetic absorbers with wide absorption bandwidth are highly pursued in the cutting-edge electronic and telecommunication industries, the traditional dielectric or magnetic bulky absorbers remain concerns of extending the effective absorption bandwidth. In this work, a dual-principle strategy has been proposed to make a better understanding of the impact of utilizing conductive absorption fillers coupled with implementing artificial structures design on the absorption performance. In the comparison based on the microscopic studies, the carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-based absorbers are confined to narrow operating bandwidth and relatively fixed response frequency range, which can not fulfill the ever-growing demands in the application. With subsequent macroscopic structure design based on the CNTs-based dielectric fillers, the artificial patterns show much more broadened absorption bandwidth, covering the majority of C-band, the whole X-band, and Ku-band, due to the tailored electromagnetic parameters and more reflections and scatterings. The results suggest that the combination of developing microscopic powder/bulky absorbers and macroscopic configuration design will fundamentally extend the effective operating bandwidth of microwave.


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From intrinsic dielectric loss to geometry patterns: Dual-principles strategy for ultrabroad band microwave absorption

Show Author's information Bin Quan1,2, Weihua Gu1, Jiaqi Sheng1, Xinfeng Lv3, Yuyi Mao3, Lie Liu4, Xiaogu Huang2( ), Zongjun Tian5( ), Guangbin Ji1( )
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Additive Manufacturing Products Quality, Wuxi 214000, China
Shenzhen General Test Systems Inc, Taohuayuan Hi-Tech Park, Shenzhen 518102, China
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

Abstract

As electromagnetic absorbers with wide absorption bandwidth are highly pursued in the cutting-edge electronic and telecommunication industries, the traditional dielectric or magnetic bulky absorbers remain concerns of extending the effective absorption bandwidth. In this work, a dual-principle strategy has been proposed to make a better understanding of the impact of utilizing conductive absorption fillers coupled with implementing artificial structures design on the absorption performance. In the comparison based on the microscopic studies, the carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-based absorbers are confined to narrow operating bandwidth and relatively fixed response frequency range, which can not fulfill the ever-growing demands in the application. With subsequent macroscopic structure design based on the CNTs-based dielectric fillers, the artificial patterns show much more broadened absorption bandwidth, covering the majority of C-band, the whole X-band, and Ku-band, due to the tailored electromagnetic parameters and more reflections and scatterings. The results suggest that the combination of developing microscopic powder/bulky absorbers and macroscopic configuration design will fundamentally extend the effective operating bandwidth of microwave.

Keywords: numerical simulation, geometry patterns, three-dimensional (3D) printing, broadband microwave absorption

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Received: 14 August 2020
Revised: 18 October 2020
Accepted: 22 October 2020
Published: 02 December 2020
Issue date: May 2021

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Financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51971111), the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of NUIST, and the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Bionic Functional Materials were gratefully acknowledged.

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