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Mutual Coupling Suppression of GPR Antennas by Depositing Wideband Meta-Absorber with Resistive Film

The direct wave between the transceiver antenna negatively affects the dynamic range and imaging quality of ground penetrating radar (GPR). Suppressing this direct wave is a vital problem in enhancing the performance of the whole GPR system. In this paper, a Minkowski-fractal metamaterial absorber (...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Yajun, Guo, Minjie, Guo, Linyan, Zhou, Yi, Wei, Changxin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9607569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36295205
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15207137
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Sumario:The direct wave between the transceiver antenna negatively affects the dynamic range and imaging quality of ground penetrating radar (GPR). Suppressing this direct wave is a vital problem in enhancing the performance of the whole GPR system. In this paper, a Minkowski-fractal metamaterial absorber (MMA) with the resistive film is proposed in the GPR transceiver antenna to reduce the mutual coupling. The simulated and measured results indicate that this MMA has an effective wideband absorption in 1.0-8.0 GHz. And the thickness of MMA is only 0.007 [Formula: see text] (with respect to 2.0 GHz). This wideband MMA can reduce the mutual coupling of the proposed GPR transceiver antenna by an average of 10 dB. And it also mitigates the time-domain ringing problem of the transmit antenna. Real-world experiments demonstrate that the direct wave from the transmitting antenna can be reduced and the target echo arriving at the receiving antenna can be increased if this MMA is placed in the proposed transceiver antenna. This resistive film-based MMA offers great promise in realizing low-cost, compact, and lightweight GPR antennas, which can also be extended to high-frequency microwave imaging.