Ultra-thin Broadband Transmission FSS for Linear Polarization Rotation

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Littman, Nickolas
O'Keefe, Steven G
Galehdar, Amir
Espinosa, Hugo G
Thiel, David V
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2021
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Frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs), have various applications in microwave electromagnetics. This paper reports a solution to the current FSS challenges of flexibly, low profile, simple fabrication and polarization control using a novel structure operating across X and Ku frequency bands where a linearly polarized wave is rotated by 90°. The FSSs were fabricated by laser engraving a thin layer of 5m aluminum on a 65 m Mylar substrate with a relative permittivity of 2.7, and separated by a dielectric spacing layer of 0.9 mm polypropylene substrate, with a relative permittivity of 3. The co and cross-polarized reflection and transmission response of the structure was investigated using numerical modeling and was measured experimentally. A parametric study was also conducted focusing on key performance indicators, and specifically the bandwidth of the structure. The novelty of this polarization rotation structure lies in its ultra-thin profile (0.034 λ0), flexibility and significant transmission bandwidth. The fabricated prototypes experimental results were in good agreement with the simulated results, with a simulated -6 dB bandwidth of 61% and a measured -6dB bandwidth of 60%. Applications include antenna radomes where polarization is particularly important, as well as other polarization filtering applications which require a conformal low profile structure.

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© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Littman, N; O'Keefe, SG; Galehdar, A; Espinosa, HG; Thiel, DV, Ultra-thin Broadband Transmission FSS for Linear Polarization Rotation, IEEE Access, 2021

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