학술논문

PSO-Assisted Design of a Dual-Polarized Broadband Switchable Rasorber/Absorber
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat. Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on. 65(5):1309-1319 Oct, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Absorption
Switches
Geometry
Propagation losses
Bandwidth
Integrated circuit modeling
Broadband communication
equivalent circuit model (ECM)
frequency selective surface (FSS)
insertion loss (IL)
particle swarm optimization (PSO)
rasorber
switchable
synthetic asymptote
transmission
wideband
Language
ISSN
0018-9375
1558-187X
Abstract
This work presents a dual-polarized broadband switchable rasorber/absorber for applications requiring radar cross-section reduction. The rasorber/absorber is designed in a low-profile configuration using frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) on the both sides of two dielectric layers separated by an air gap. The top layer consists of a lossy square loop FSS loaded with lumped resistors and a bandpass FSS realized by four miniaturized slotted square patches inside the loop. The bottom layer has a square-slot-shaped lossless bandpass FSS. A partial set of initial geometry parameters is synthesized from the equivalent circuit model using particle swarm optimization to ensure rapid optimization of the geometry with good performance. Both the lossy and the lossless FSSs are loaded with p-i-n diodes to enable switching between rasorber and absorber modes. The design exhibits a lower absorption bandwidth from 4.2 to 7.2 GHz [fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 52.63%], an upper absorption bandwidth from 9.69 to 14.1 GHz (FBW of 37.07%), and a transmission band at 8.5 GHz with an insertion loss of 0.38 dB in the rasorber mode. In the absorber mode, the design exhibits a continuous absorption band from 4.6 to 11.1 GHz (FBW of 83%). The simulated results are validated through experimental measurements with good agreement.