Selective Near Perfect Light Absorbtion by Graphene Monolayer Using Aperiodic Multilayer Microstructures

Abstract

We investigate 1D aperiodic multilayer microstructures in order to achieve near total absorption in preselected wavelengths in a graphene monolayer. Our structures are designed by a genetic optimization algorithm coupled to a transfer matrix code. Coupled mode theory (CMT) analysis, in accordance with transfer matrix method (TMM) results, indicates the existence of a critical coupling in a graphene monolayer for perfect absorptions. Our findings show that the near-total-absorption peaks are highly tunable and can be controlled simultaneously or independently in wide range of wavelengths in the near-infrared and visible. Our proposed approach is metal free and does not require surface texturing or patterning, and can be applied for other two dimensional (2D) materials.