학술논문
Low cost and thin metasurface for ultra wide band and wide angle polarization insensitive radar cross section reduction.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*RADAR cross sections
*BANDWIDTHS
*POLARIZATION (Nuclear physics)
*ULTRA-wideband devices
*SIGNAL processing
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ISSN
0003-6951
Abstract
A planar low cost and thin metasurface is proposed to achieve ultra-wideband radar cross section (RCS) reduction with stable performance with respect to polarization and incident angles. This metasurface is composed of two different artificial magnetic conductor unit cells arranged in a chessboard like configuration. These unit cells have a Jerusalem cross pattern with different thicknesses, which results in wideband out-phase reflection and RCS reduction, consequently. The designed metasurface reduces RCS more than 10-dB from 13.6 GHz to 45.5 GHz (108% bandwidth) and more than 20-dB RCS from 15.2 GHz to 43.6 GHz (96.6%). Moreover, the 10-dB RCS reduction bandwidth is very stable (more than 107%) for both TE and TM polarizations. The good agreement between simulations and measurement results proves the design, properly. The ultra-wide bandwidth, low cost, low profile, and stable performance of this metasurface prove its high capability compared with the state-of-the-art references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]