Figure 6

The simulated current distribution for the resistively loaded absorber for both polarisations, i.e., TE (a) and TM (b) at 9.7 GHz, where the first maxima of absorption occurs (Fig. 4b): now the loops are acting as distributed resistors where the captured energy is transformed to ohmic losses. The dominant loops for each polarisation are those in which their wide parallel arms are in alignment to the electrical field of the incident plane wave.