Fast analysis and optimal design of metasurface for wideband monostatic and multistatic radar stealth

In this paper, a metasurface (MS) is designed based on the hybrid array pattern synthesis and particle swarm optimization method for wideband monostatic and multistatic radar stealth. The non-absorptive MS is composed of two kinds of electronic band gap structures with the reflection phase difference of 180° (±37°) over a wide frequency range. Far field scattering pattern of the MS can be quickly and accurately synthetized by the method of moments and array pattern synthesis. A new strategy is proposed for realizing the diffusion reflection of electromagnetic waves by redirecting electromagnetic energies to more directions through optimizing the reflected phase arrangement for the MS by hybrid array pattern synthesis and particle swarm optimization algorithm. Due to the non-uniform distributions of phase gradient between neighboring lattices, numerous scattering lobes are produced in the upper half-space, leading to a great reduction of bistatic radar cross section (RCS). The −10 dB RCS reduction bandwidth of 80.2% is achieved for both monostatic and bistatic at normal incidence. The specular reflection and bistatic scattering for oblique incidence with TE and TM polarizations are also considered in detail. The measured results are in good agreement with the corresponding simulations.

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