Flexible broadband polarization converter based on metasurface at microwave band

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/28/7/074205

Abstract

A flexible broadband linear polarization converter is proposed based on the metasurface operating at microwave band. To achieve bandwidth extension property, long and short metallic arc wires, as well as the metallic disks placed over a ground plane, are combined into the polarizer, which can generate three neighboring resonances. Due to the combination of the first two resonances and the optimized size and thickness of the unit cell, the polarization converter can have a weak incident angle dependence. Both simulated and measured results confirm that the average polarization conversion ratio is over 85% from 11.3 GHz to 20.2 GHz within a broad range of incident angle from 0° to 45°. Moreover, the proposed polarization converter based on flexible substrates can be applied for conformal design. The simulation and experiment results demonstrate that our designed polarizer still keeps high polarization conversion efficiency, even when it adheres to convex cylindrical surfaces. The periodic metallic structure of the designed polarizer has great potential application values in the microwave, terahertz, and optic regimes.

Keywords: polarization converter flexible metasurface wide-angle broadband

Received: 04 March 2019
Revised: 06 April 2019
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PACS:	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	42.25.Ja	(Polarization)
	78.67.Pt	(Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)
	92.60.Ta	(Electromagnetic wave propagation)

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Project supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. kfjj20180401), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61471368), the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20161852016), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M601802), and Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds, China (Grant No. 1601009B).

Corresponding Authors: Xiangkun Kong
E-mail: xkkong@nuaa.edu.cn

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Qi Wang(王奇), Xiangkun Kong(孔祥鲲), Xiangxi Yan(严祥熙), Yan Xu(徐岩), Shaobin Liu(刘少斌), Jinjun Mo(莫锦军), Xiaochun Liu(刘晓春) Flexible broadband polarization converter based on metasurface at microwave band 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 074205

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