Polarization-dependent bi-functional metasurface for directive radiation and diffusion-like scattering

In this paper, we design a bi-functional metasurface with different spatial distribution of reflection phase responses depending on the incident polarization. The metasurface with a thickness of only 0.067 λ0 (λ0 is the working wavelength) is constructed by unit cells composing two orthogonal I-shaped metallic structures, and the reflection phase for x- and y-linearly polarized incidence can be independently controlled by the geometric parameters. The metasurface can work as a flat parabolic reflector antenna with a maximum gain reaching about 22 dBi around 9.5 GHz, when it is illuminated by the x-polarized feed source of an offset open-ended waveguide antenna. Meanwhile, designed with randomly distributed reflection phases, the proposed metasurface can behave as an electromagnetic (EM) diffusion-like surface, which is capable of suppressing the backward scattering in a broadband from 8.5 GHz to 14 GHz for y-polarized incidence. By this strategy of EM functionality integration, a metasurface reflector ant...

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