On demand design of multi-freedom metamaterial absorbers based on recurrent prediction networks

Abstract

Metamaterial absorbers (MMAs) have received a lot of attention due to their wide range of promising applications. In general, metamaterials involve a large number of geometric parameters, so the traditional simulation requires researchers to have rich experience and sufficient computational resources. In this paper, we demonstrate the forward and on demand design of multi-freedom MMAs based on the recurrent prediction network (RPN). We used the variable contribution analysis (VCA) algorithm to eliminate 55 absorption points whose contribution score was less than 1.0, the maximum fitting coefficient (R2) was increased by 7.0%, and the average calculation time was reduced by 20.326s. multi-freedom design is achieved by quantifying the design material into binary features as geometric parameter inputs into the RPN model. We solve the prediction peak error problem by many-to-one RPN, compared with the many-to-many prediction of classical deep neural network (DNN) model, the RPN error range is 0-0.12 compared to the 0-0.25 error range of the DNN. The ultra-wideband MMA design with the absorption of 0.2-4.2µm broadband is more than 90%, and the highest absorption rate is 99.2%. This method can be used in zoom imaging, metamaterials filters and other fields.