Metamaterials for perfect absorption

I. Introduction. II. Theoretical Backgrounds. II.1. Interaction of electromagnetic waves with matter. II.2. Broadband Absorber. II.3. Salisbury screen or frequency-selective surface. II.4. Metamaterial-based perfect absorber (MMPA). II.5. Effective-medium approximation. III. MMPA operating in different frequency ranges. III.1. MMPA operating in the GHz range. III.2. MMPA operating in the THz range. III.3. MMPA operating in the infrared and optical ranges. IV. MMPA, based on electromagnetically-induced transparency. V. Broadband and tunable MMPA. VI. Polarization-independent and wide-incident-angle MMPA. VII. Perspectives and future works. Index.