Thermal emitter performance of ultra-broadband solar metamaterial absorber based on metal-insulator-metal device structure

In this paper, we have designed a solar absorber with ultra-broadband absorption. The structure has seven layers with a metal-dielectric periodic film stack and a metallic copper substefficiency. The metal-dielectric periodic membrane stack and the dielectric are continuous to form a metal/dielectric composite microstructure. It has a very high absorption efficiency at 280 nm-2893 nm. The absorption efficiency in this wavelength range is 96.26% and absorption efficiency at AM 1.5 is up to 95.66% by finite difference time domain method (FDTD) simulation. The thermal radiation absorption efficiency of the structure is 93.69% at 1000K and 94.5% at 1200 K, which can also be used in the manufacture of the heat sink due to its high thermal radiation absorption efficiency. Our proposed solar absorber has good incidence angle insensitivity (0 degrees-60 degrees) and good polarization independence (0 degrees-90 degrees). These advantages enable our absorbers to be widely used for solar absorption and emission and offer a variety of design options for ideal absorbers.