Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benzaouia, Mohammed
Other Authors: Steven G. Johnson.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118060
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spelling mit-1721.1/1180602019-04-12T22:13:56Z Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces Absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces Benzaouia, Mohammed Steven G. Johnson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-86). In this work, we develop frameworks to study and design the scattering properties in two kinds of systems. For the first problem, we find approximate angle/ frequency-averaged limits on absorption enhancement due to multiple scattering from arrays of "metaparticles", applicable to general wave-scattering problems and motivated here by ocean-buoy energy extraction. We show that general limits, including the well known Yablonovitch result in solar cells, arise from reciprocity conditions. The use of reciprocity in the radiative transfer equation (similar to a stochastic regime neglecting coherent effects) justify the use of a diffusion model as an upper estimation for the enhancement. This allows us to write an analytical formula for the maximum angle/frequency-averaged enhancement. We use this result to propose and quantify approaches to increase performance through careful particle design and/or using external reflectors. For the second problem, we develop a design method for multi-grid frequency selective metasurfaces based on temporal coupled mode theory (CMT). In particular, we design an elliptic passband filter with a center frequency of 10 GHz, bandwidth of 10% and relatively good angle dependence. by Mohammed Benzaouia. S.M. 2018-09-17T15:55:44Z 2018-09-17T15:55:44Z 2018 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118060 1051460473 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 86 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title_full Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title_fullStr Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title_full_unstemmed Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title_short Scattering design : absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
title_sort scattering design absorption enhancement and frequency selective metasurfaces
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118060
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