An investigation of a new metamaterial composite structures

TL;DR

This paper designs a new composite metamaterial structure combining FSS and plasma arrays to control microwave propagation in the X band, demonstrating tunable bandgap frequencies and significant absorption properties.

Contribution

It introduces a novel composite structure integrating FSS and plasma arrays, enabling tunable electromagnetic properties for microwave control.

Findings

The FSS with coupling reversed phase patterns shows high absorptivity.

The device effectively controls microwave propagation and allows bandgap tuning.

Properties are highly frequency-dependent.

Abstract

A frequency selective device, which is composed of a kind of composite structure, is designed to control the propagation of free space electromagnetic waves in the X band of the microwave spectrum. The composite structure mainly consists of a simple frequency selective surface (FSS) structure and the designed plasma arrays. Firstly, the electromagnetic property of the FSS structure is tested, and results indicating that the FSS structure with coupling reversed phase patternings has a significant absorptivity, with a bit blue shift of the peak resonance in comparison with the single layer FSS cases. Then the designed frequency selective device is still investigated in X band frequency. Results demonstrate that this device is easy to control the propagation of microwave, and the bandgap frequencies can be shifted through varying the FSS structure or the plasma arrays, and that the properties of this structure is highly dependent on frequency.