• Nano-Micro Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 1, 066 (2024)
Kaili Zhang1,2, Yuhao Liu1,2, Yanan Liu1,2, Yuefeng Yan1,2..., Guansheng Ma1,2, Bo Zhong3, Renchao Che4,* and Xiaoxiao Huang1,2,**|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
  • 2MIIT Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural-Functional Integration Materials & Green Manufacturing Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
  • 3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, Weihai 264209, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, People’s Republic of China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01280-6 Cite this Article
    Kaili Zhang, Yuhao Liu, Yanan Liu, Yuefeng Yan, Guansheng Ma, Bo Zhong, Renchao Che, Xiaoxiao Huang. Tracking Regulatory Mechanism of Trace Fe on Graphene Electromagnetic Wave Absorption[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 066 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Polarization and conductance losses are the fundamental dielectric attenuation mechanisms for graphene-based absorbers, but it is not fully understood in revealing the loss mechanism of affect graphene itself. For the first time, the reduced graphene oxide (RGO) based absorbers are developed with regulatory absorption properties and the absorption mechanism of RGO is mainly originated from the carrier injection behavior of trace metal Fe nanosheets on graphene. Accordingly, the minimum reflection loss (RLmin) of Fe/RGO-2 composite reaches - 53.38 dB (2.45 mm), and the effective absorption bandwidth achieves 7.52 GHz (2.62 mm) with lower filling loading of 2 wt%. Using off-axis electron hologram testing combined with simulation calculation and carrier transport property experiments, we demonstrate here the carrier injection behavior from Fe to graphene at the interface and the induced charge accumulation and rearrangement, resulting in the increased interfacial and dipole polarization and the conductance loss. This work has confirmed that regulating the dielectric property of graphene itself by adding trace metals can not only ensure good impedance matching, but also fully exploit the dielectric loss ability of graphene at low filler content, which opens up an efficient way for designing lightweight absorbers and may be extended to other types materials.
    Kaili Zhang, Yuhao Liu, Yanan Liu, Yuefeng Yan, Guansheng Ma, Bo Zhong, Renchao Che, Xiaoxiao Huang. Tracking Regulatory Mechanism of Trace Fe on Graphene Electromagnetic Wave Absorption[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 066
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