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Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications
The design of a metasurface with low radar cross section (RCS) property is presented in this paper. The low scattering of the metasurface is achieved by applying the artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) unit cells in three different configurations. Two different AMC unit cells with an effective phase...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6766352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31540483 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12183031 |
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author | Khan, Tayyab Ali Li, Jianxing Chen, Juan Raza, Muhammad Usman Zhang, Anxue |
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description | The design of a metasurface with low radar cross section (RCS) property is presented in this paper. The low scattering of the metasurface is achieved by applying the artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) unit cells in three different configurations. Two different AMC unit cells with an effective phase difference of 180 ± 37° are first designed to analyze the out of phase reflection in a wideband frequency range from 5.9 to 12.2 GHz. Then, the unit cells are placed in a chessboard-like configuration, newly constructed rotated rectangular-shaped configuration, and optimized configuration to study and compare the RCS reduction performance. All designs of the metasurface with different configurations show obvious RCS reduction as compared with the metallic plate of the same size. However, the relative bandwidth of the optimized metasurface is larger than the chessboard-like configuration and rotated rectangular-shaped configuration. To certify the results of the simulations, the metasurface with the optimized configuration is fabricated further to measure the RCS reduction bandwidth. The measured results are in good accordance with the simulated results. Therefore, the proposed metasurface can be a good option for applications where low RCS is desirable. |
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spelling | pubmed-67663522019-09-30 Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications Khan, Tayyab Ali Li, Jianxing Chen, Juan Raza, Muhammad Usman Zhang, Anxue Materials (Basel) Article The design of a metasurface with low radar cross section (RCS) property is presented in this paper. The low scattering of the metasurface is achieved by applying the artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) unit cells in three different configurations. Two different AMC unit cells with an effective phase difference of 180 ± 37° are first designed to analyze the out of phase reflection in a wideband frequency range from 5.9 to 12.2 GHz. Then, the unit cells are placed in a chessboard-like configuration, newly constructed rotated rectangular-shaped configuration, and optimized configuration to study and compare the RCS reduction performance. All designs of the metasurface with different configurations show obvious RCS reduction as compared with the metallic plate of the same size. However, the relative bandwidth of the optimized metasurface is larger than the chessboard-like configuration and rotated rectangular-shaped configuration. To certify the results of the simulations, the metasurface with the optimized configuration is fabricated further to measure the RCS reduction bandwidth. The measured results are in good accordance with the simulated results. Therefore, the proposed metasurface can be a good option for applications where low RCS is desirable. MDPI 2019-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6766352/ /pubmed/31540483 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12183031 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Khan, Tayyab Ali Li, Jianxing Chen, Juan Raza, Muhammad Usman Zhang, Anxue Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title | Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title_full | Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title_fullStr | Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title_short | Design of a Low Scattering Metasurface for Stealth Applications |
title_sort | design of a low scattering metasurface for stealth applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6766352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31540483 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12183031 |
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