Design of Switchable Frequency-Selective Rasorber with A-R-A-T or A-T-A-R Operating Modes

TL;DR

This paper introduces a switchable frequency-selective rasorber capable of toggling between transmission and reflection modes, with out-of-band absorption, using PIN diodes and FSS screens, validated through simulation and prototype testing.

Contribution

A novel switchable rasorber design with A-R-A-T or A-T-A-R modes, enabling dynamic control of electromagnetic properties for anti-jamming applications.

Findings

Achieved reflection and transmission peaks of -0.55 dB at 4.06 GHz and -0.52 dB at 5.97 GHz in ON state.

Achieved transmission and reflection peaks of -0.31 dB at 4.04 GHz and -0.26 dB at 6.01 GHz in OFF state.

Prototype validation shows good agreement with simulations.

Abstract

This work presents a switchable frequency-selective rasorber (SFSR) with two operating modes. Switching from transmission to reflection can be achieved by appropriately adding feeders and PIN diodes based on cascaded two-dimensional lossy and lossless frequency-selective surface (FSS) screens. The proposed SFSR can realize out-of-band absorption. Analysis of the equivalent circuit model (ECM) can be useful for achieving a switchable rasorber. As the state of the PIN diodes changes, the working state of the SFSR can be switched from low-frequency reflection and high-frequency transmission to low-frequency transmission and high-frequency reflection, respectively. In the final-revision simulation of the working band of the SFSR, in the ON state, reflection and transmission peaks of -0.55 dB at 4.06 GHz and -0.52 dB at 5.97 GHz, respectively, are achieved; in the OFF state, the transmission and reflection peaks of -0.31 dB at 4.04GHz and -0.26 dB at 6.01 GHz, respectively, are obtained. A prototype sample is developed and validated. The results are in good agreement with those of the full-wave simulation. The proposed design can be used in intelligent anti-jamming communication.