Graphene, microscale metallic mesh, and transparent dielectric hybrid structure for excellent transparent electromagnetic interference shielding and absorbing

A high-performance transparent electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding material based on a graphene/metallic mesh/transparent dielectric (GMTD) hybrid structure is designed and characterized. It consists of stacked graphene and metallic mesh layers, with neighboring layers separated by a quartz-glass substrsate. The GMTD hybrid structure combines the microwavereflecting characteristics of the metallic mesh and the microwave-absorbing characteristics of graphene to achieve simultaneously high visible transmittance, strong microwave shielding effectiveness (SE), and low microwave reflection. Experiments show that a double-graphene and double-metallic mesh GMTD hybrid structure with a mesh periodicity of 160 μm provides microwave SE exceeding 47.79 dB in the K_u-band, and an SE exceeding 32.12 dB in the K_a-band, with a maximum value of 37.78 dB at 26.5 GHz. SE by absorption exceeds 30.78 dB in the K_a-band, with a maximum value of 34.55 dB at 26.5 GHz, while maintaining a normalized visible transmittance of ∼85% at 700 nm. This remarkable performance favors the application of the proposed structure as a transparent microwave shield and absorber, and offers a new strategy for transparent EMI shielding.