PMID- 30621165 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1996-1944 (Print) IS - 1996-1944 (Electronic) IS - 1996-1944 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 1 DP - 2019 Jan 4 TI - Tunable Perfect THz Absorber Based on a Stretchable Ultrathin Carbon-Polymer Bilayer. LID - 10.3390/ma12010143 [doi] LID - 143 AB - By exploring the Salisbury screen approach, we propose and demonstrate a thin film absorber of terahertz (THz) radiation. The absorber is comprised of a less than 100 nm thick layer of pyrolytic carbon deposited on a stretchable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film followed by the metal film. We demonstrate that being overall less than 200 microns thick, such a sandwich structure absorbs resonantly up to 99.9%of the incident THz radiation, and that the absorption resonance is determined by the polymer thickness, which can be adjusted by stretching. FAU - Paddubskaya, Alesia AU - Paddubskaya A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7658-1436 AD - Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya 11, 220030 Minsk, Belarus. paddubskaya@gmail.com. AD - Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. paddubskaya@gmail.com. FAU - Demidenko, Marina AU - Demidenko M AD - Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya 11, 220030 Minsk, Belarus. demidenko@inp.bsu.by. FAU - Batrakov, Konstantin AU - Batrakov K AD - Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya 11, 220030 Minsk, Belarus. kgbatrakov@gmail.com. AD - Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. kgbatrakov@gmail.com. FAU - Valusis, Gintaras AU - Valusis G AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7076-6840 AD - Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania. gintaras.valusis@ftmc.lt. FAU - Kaplas, Tommi AU - Kaplas T AD - Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania. tommi.kaplas@uef.fi. AD - Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, 7 Yliopistokatu, FI-80100 Joensuu, Finland. tommi.kaplas@uef.fi. FAU - Svirko, Yuri AU - Svirko Y AD - Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, 7 Yliopistokatu, FI-80100 Joensuu, Finland. yuri.svirko@uef.fi. AD - Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1199991 Moscow, Russia. yuri.svirko@uef.fi. FAU - Kuzhir, Polina AU - Kuzhir P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3689-0837 AD - Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya 11, 220030 Minsk, Belarus. polina.kuzhir@gmail.com. AD - Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. polina.kuzhir@gmail.com. LA - eng GR - H2020-GA644076 RISE project CoExAN/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/ GR - task 1.2.1.2./the Union State Technology-SG program/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190104 PL - Switzerland TA - Materials (Basel) JT - Materials (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101555929 PMC - PMC6337663 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Salisbury screen OT - perfect absorption OT - pyrolytic carbon OT - terahertz COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2019/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2019/01/10 06:01 PMCR- 2019/01/04 CRDT- 2019/01/10 06:00 PHST- 2018/11/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/12/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/12/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/01/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/01/10 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/04 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ma12010143 [pii] AID - materials-12-00143 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ma12010143 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Materials (Basel). 2019 Jan 4;12(1):143. doi: 10.3390/ma12010143.