Simplistic metasurface design approach for incident angle and polarization insensitive rcs reduction

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes the design of a metasurface for polarization and incident angle-insensitive RCS reduction applications. An ellipse-shaped unit cell is utilized as a polarization converter, which is then arranged to form a checkerboard surface. While a single layer checkerboard structure gives a wideband RCS reduction, a double layer structure yields polarization and incident angle independent operation. The two layers have unit cells rotated 450 to each other. Experimental results demonstrate an RCS reduction bandwidth of around 90%. Further the RCS reduction remains stable with polarization and incident angle variation.

Keywords

• Polarisation insensitive
• Incident angle stability
• Radar cross section reduction
• Polarisation conversion ratio
• Checker board reflective surface