A Four-leaf Clover-shaped Coding Metasurface For Ultra-wideband Diffusion-like Scattering
DOI: 10.12000/JR21061
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摘要: 该文提出了一种结构新颖的四叶草形编码超表面,并利用该超表面实现了超宽带漫散射。所提出的编码超表面具有旋转对称性,它对x极化和y极化波产生相似的反射特性。为了实现1比特编码超表面,该文设计了在15.5~40.5 GHz的频率范围内且相位差为180°±37°的两个超表面单元。采用优化算法得到阵列中单元的最佳排列,从而实现了宽带RCS的缩减。四叶草形编码超表面可以在15.5~26.5 GHz和30.5~40.5 GHz这两个频带内实现10 dB的RCS缩减。该文加工了该编码超表面并与仿真结果进行了比较,从而有效验证了所设计的四叶草形编码超表面可以在宽频带内实现RCS的缩减。Abstract: In this paper, a novel four-leaf clover-shaped coding metasurface is proposed and applied to achieve an ultra-wideband diffusion-like scattering. The proposed metasurface element has rotational symmetry; hence, it produces similar reflection characteristics for both x- and y-polarized waves. To realize a 1-bit coding metasurface, two elements are chosen that have a phase difference of 180°±37° from 15.5 to 40.5 GHz. An optimization algorithm is applied to get the best arrangement of unit cells in the array to attain the wideband RCS reduction. The four-leaf clover-shaped metasurface can attain more than 10 dB RCS reduction from 15.5 to 26.5 GHz and 30.5 to 40.5 GHz. A prototype of the proposed design is fabricated, and an experiment is carried out to validate the performance of the metasurface. The proposed concept of four-leaf clover-shaped coding metasurface is an effective solution for wideband RCS reduction applications.
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Table 1. Comparison of our work with earlier works
Ref. Freq. band (GHz) σR (dB) Metasurface arrangement Thickness FBW (%) [22] 11.60~18.65 10 Random 0.15λ0 46 [23] 9.9~19.8 10 Random 0.15λ0 66 [24] 8~18 10 Random 0.13λ0 77 [25] 7.2~15.6 10 Random 0.12λ0 73 [26] 12.2~23.4 10 Spiral coding 0.12λ0 62 [27] 5.57~7.37 10 Ergodic 0.06λ0 28 [28] 5.8~12.2 10 GA 0.14λ0 77 [29] 6.94~9.23 10 GA 0.05λ0 28 [20] 12~24 10 GA 0.12λ0 66 [30] 8~15 10 Random 0.10λ0 0.47 This work 15.5~26.5, 30.5~40.5 10 WCA 0.13λ0 80 λ0 is the free-space wavelength corresponding to the center frequency of the operation bandwidth.
FBW: The fractional bandwidth FBW= (fH – fL)/fc, fc = (fH + fL) /2
σR: RCS reduction -
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