We demonstrate the perfect trapping of electromagnetic fields over multi-band frequencies through all-dielectric terahertz absorbers using water graphene cascade metamaterials. More specifically, the coating water layer greatly enhances the higher-order Fabry-Pérot resonant absorbing modes and can achieve more than 8 absorbing peaks with the absorptions exceeding 99% in the spectrum below 3 THz. Especially such multiple perfect absorbing bands can readily be reset when the proposed water-graphene metamaterial absorbers integrate with thermal controlled vanadium dioxide. Such a perfect absorbing capacity would also be valid for the wide angular illuminations with different polarizations, and the reconfigurable characteristics of graphene can also enable the dynamically tuning of the absorbing frequencies, offering great freedom of extensive applications in energy harvesting and wave manipulation.
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