MXene-Based Perfect Absorber Design and Refractive Index Sensing Performance

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An absorber that has aMXene layer drilled into with square and circular cavities and thin alu-minum layer as a reflector was examined. With the proper design ofthe structure dimensions, a MXene-based refractive index sensor with adual-band at THz frequency and 99.93% and 97.85% absorption lev-els were obtained. The proposed design achieved 1983 and 1935 Q-factorvalues at frequencies of 0.446 THz and 0.583 THz, respectively. Theproposed sensor with fractional bandwidth of 0.050% and 0.052% hassensitivity values of 686.2 and 557.6 (GHz/RIU). The figure of meritof the proposed sensor is calculated as 3049.8 and 1852.5 (1/RIU) andthe proposed sensor is compared with sensor available in the litera-ture. Since the designed absorber can detect refractive index changes, italso has potential applications in the identification of biological samples. MXene Absorber Sensor Refractive index Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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