Experimental Demonstration of Microwave Absorber Using Large-Area Multilayer Graphene-Based Frequency Selective Surface

Abstract

Radar-absorbing materials are used in stealth technologies for concealment of an object from radar detection. Resistive and/or magnetic composite materials are used to reduce the backscattered microwave signals. However, nontunable characteristics or the required complex structure hampered the application of these materials. Here, multilayer graphene-based frequency selective surfaces (MLGFSS), which reach a size of 150 mm $\times $ 150 mm, are designed and fabricated. By properly changing the growth temperature of MLG using the chemical vapor deposition approach and designing the pattern of graphene layer, the impedance matching condition can be satisfied at different frequencies. As a result, two kinds of absorbers with different working bandwidths are realized. The performances of the proposed absorbers are analyzed using full-wave simulation and are also tested with experimental results. Our method of fabricating large-area MLGFSS avoids the direct contact between the stencil mask and graphene, and guarantees the integrity and quality of patterned graphene structure. A good agreement between simulation and measurement results demonstrates that such ultrathin MLGFSS is very useful in the design of graphene-based functional devices at microwave frequencies.