A Low-RCS Folded Reflectarray Combining Dual-Metasurface and Rasorber

A strategy for folded reflectarray with low detectability and enhanced gain is presented. For this purpose, the folded reflectarray is engineered by combining a polarization-conversion focusing metasur face, a frequency selective rasorber (FSR), and a diffusion metasurface. The FSR is composed of a lossy layer and a single-polarized I-shaped slotted frequency selective surface (FSS) between which the diffusive metasurface is inserted for in-band and out-of-band cross-polarized low radar cross-sectional (RCS) reduction. Therein, the antenna exhibits a transmission window and two out-of-band absorptions due to the FSR for copolarized radiation. In contrast to detection, the system operated for both wave incidence. For cross-polarized wave incidence, a wideband RCS reduction is enabled due to the wave-diffusive function of the inserted metasurface. The half profile is guaranteed since the wave bounces two times between the FSS and focusing metasurface. The numerical and experimental results coincide well, both indicating that the low-RCS folded reflectarray achieves a peak gain of 23.5 dB at 10.2 GHz, corresponding to an aperture efficiency of 37.8%. Besides, the antenna achieves 10 dB monostatic RCS reduction within 4.6–8.8 GHz and 9.6–13.8 GHz under copolarization detection and a 10 dB monostatic RCS reduction from 8.4 to 19 GHz under cross-polarization detection. Moreover, good invisibility is also achieved for bistatic RCS reduction.

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