Metamaterials for Perfect Absorption

This book provides a comprehensiveoverview of the theory and practical development of metamaterial-based perfectabsorbers (MMPAs). It begins with a brief history of MMPAs whichreviews the various theoretical and experimental milestones in theirdevelopment. The theoretical background and fundamental working principles ofMMPAs are then discussed, providing the necessary background on how MMPAs workand are constructed. There then follows asection describing how different MMPAs are designed and built according to theoperating frequency of the electromagnetic wave, and how theirbehavior is changed. Methods of fabricating and characterizing MMPAs are thenpresented.

The book elaborates on the performanceand characteristics of MMPAs, including electromagnetically-inducedtransparency (EIT). It also covers recent advances in MMPAs and theirapplications, including multi-band, broadband, tunability, polarizationindependence and incidence independence. 

Suitable for graduate students inoptical sciences and electronic engineering, it will also serve as a valuablereference for active researchers in these fields.

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.

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 SungkyunkwanUniversity, Korea. His current research interests include the optical properties ofmetamaterials and the electronic-structure calculations of mostly magneticmaterials.  He has published over 170 scientific journal paperson the optical properties of metamaterials and the optical and magneto-opticalproperties of magnetic materials.

YoungJoon Yoo also investigates metamaterial absorbers and applications, andmultiferroic flexible films as Researcher at Dept. Physics, Hanyang University,Seoul, Korea. He received a Ph.D. in Physics at Hanyang University, Seoul,Korea, in 2014. He worked as Associate Research Engineer at R&D Dept., ScincoInc., Korea, from 2006 to 2010.

Ki Won Kim received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from YonseiUniversity, Seoul, Korea, in 1995. He is working as a professor at Department of InformationDisplay, Sunmoon University, Asan, Korea, from 1996. He worked as theEditor-in-Chief of Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society during 2013-2014. Hisresearch interests include metamaterials working in the MHz to THz regime,magnetic and magneto-optical properties of thin films, and analysis of magneticsurface and thin films by using synchrotron radiation.