Abstract
Nanostructured selective absorbers have widespread applications ranging from artificial color to thermophotovoltaics and radiative cooling. In this paper, we propose a metamaterial selective absorber with a metal–insulator–metal structure for infrared stealth. It can realize multiband absorption, and one sharp peak is at 1.54 µm, which can be used to reduce the scattering signals in laser-guided missiles. The other two relatively broad absorption peaks are at 2.83 µm and 6.11 µm, which can match the atmospheric absorption band. It can reduce up to 90 % of the detected infrared signals while maintaining a relatively high level of thermal emission capability. The dependence of the spectral characteristics on the incident angle is studied. The infrared signatures of the structure could be suppressed across a wide temperature range.
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