Mie resonance induced broadband near-perfect absorption in nonstructured graphene loaded with periodical dielectric wires.

In general, there is a fundamental trade-off between the operational bandwidth and the attainable absorption. So, obtaining broadband wave absorption of a low reference standard such as 90% is not very difficult. However, when trying to obtain higher absorption such as 99%, the bandwidth will drop dramatically. Here, we demonstrate that broadband near-perfect absorption of over 99% absorption with a 60% relative bandwidth can be obtained utilizing single-layered and nonstructured graphene loaded with periodical dielectric wires. The absorption mechanism originates from the coupling of Mie resonances in dielectric wires excited by the incident wave to the graphene plasmon resonances, which introduces two absorption contributions: direct near-field absorption in the graphene and radiative emission into the graphene.