Truncated spherical voids nanostructured tungsten films are shown to have nearly perfect absorption with characteristics of broad-band, polarization-independent and wide-incidence angle in near infrared and visible regime. Through optimizing material and structural parameters, we can achieve the absorbance above 90% from 420THz to 600THz within incidence angle from 0° to 60° for TE polarization and from 450THz to 800THz within incidence angle from 0° to 75° for TM polarization. In particular, absorbance can achieve 99.9% at 550.5THz for both polarizations under normal incidence. Such strong absorption is explained using multilayer effective media theory and cavity resonance.
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