Design of multi-band metasurface antenna array with low RCS performance

In this paper, a multi-band metasurface(MS) antenna array with low radar cross section(RCS) performance is proposed and measured. Firstly, a 44 antenna array is composed of four 22 Jerusalem cross structure antenna arrays working at different frequency bands, which is aimed at enhancing the bandwidth effectively. Then, each antenna can be seen as a unit of MS in spite of adding the feeding structure. Based on phase cancellation principle, the MS is arranged into a chessboard configuration in order to realize wideband RCS reduction. Thus, excellent radiation and scattering characteristics are obtained simultaneously. Simulated and measured results indicate that this work provides a novel method to achieve bandwidth expansion as well as wideband RCS reduction of the antenna array.     

Real-time programmable coding metasurface antenna for multibeam switching and scanning

Novel electromagnetic wave modulation by programmable dynamic metasurface promotes the device design freedom, while multibeam antennas have sparked tremendous interest in wireless communications. A programmable coding antenna based on active metasurface elements (AMSEs) is proposed in this study, allowing scanning and state switching of multiple beams in real time. To obtain the planar array phase distribution in quick response, the aperture field superposition and discretization procedures are investigated. Without the need for a massive algorithm or elaborate design, this electronically controlled antenna with integrated radiation and phase-shift functions can flexibly manipulate the scattering state of multiple beams under field-programmable gate array (FPGA) control. Simulation and experimental results show that the multiple directional beams dynamically generated in the metasurface upper half space have good radiation performance, with the main lobe directions closely matching the predesigned angles. This metasurface antenna has great potential for future applications in multitarget radar, satellite navigation, and reconfigurable intelligent metasurfaces.     

一种新型的低散射微带天线阵设计

本文将电磁表面(electromagnetic surface, EMS)的设计思想引入到微带天线阵的设计中,在设计天线单元的同时,也将其作为EMS单元兼顾其反射特性.通过在矩形辐射贴片上开弧形缺口,得到一种新的单元结构,该单元可与原始EMS单元之间形成180°±30°有效相位差,且作为天线单元时与原始天线工作在相同谐振模式、相同频带.将两种单元以棋盘形式构成组合天线阵,在两个极化下分别基于相位对消原理和吸波原理实现了雷达散射截面(radar cross section, RCS)减缩.实测与仿真结果表明:相较于等大小的金属板,在x极化波照射下,天线阵在5.6—6.0 GHz实现了6 dB以上的RCS减缩,相对带宽为10.1%;在y极化波照射下,天线阵在5.0—7.2 GHz实现了6 dB以上的RCS减缩,相对带宽为24%.同时由于两种单元在辐射上具有较好的一致性,使得组合天线阵的辐射性能得以保持.该方法有效解决了天线阵辐射和散射难以兼顾的矛盾,为其他形式的低散射天线阵的设计提供了新的方法与思路.     

An ultra-wideband 2-bit coding metasurface using Pancharatnam—Berry phase for radar cross-section reduction

An ultra-wideband 2-bit coding metasurface is designed for radar cross-section (RCS) reduction. The design process is presented in detail, in which a polarization conversion metasurface (PCM) is first proposed. The proposed PCM can realize ultra-wideband circular polarization (CP) maintaining reflection. Moreover, Pancharatnam—Berry (PB) phase will be generated in the co-polarized reflection coefficient by rotating the metallic patches in its unit cells. Thus, based on the PCM, the four coding elements of a 2-bit coding metasurface are constructed using PB phase, and an ultra-wideband PB 2-bit coding metasurface is proposed according to an appropriate coding sequence. The simulated and experimental results show that the coding metasurface has obvious advantages of wideband and polarization-insensitivity. Compared to a metallic plate of the same size, it can achieve more than 10 dB RCS reduction in the frequency band from 9.8 GHz to 42.6 GHz with a relative bandwidth of 125.2% under normal incidence with arbitrary polarizations.     

Ultra-wideband RCS reduction using novel configured chessboard metasurface

A novel artificial magnetic conductor(AMC) metasurface is proposed with ultra-wideband 180?phase difference for radar cross section(RCS) reduction. It is composed of two dual-resonant AMC cells, which enable a broadband phase difference of 180?±30?from 7.9 GHz to 19.2 GHz to be achieved. A novel strategy is devised by dividing each rectangular grid in a chessboard configuration into four triangular grids, leading to a further reduction of peak bistatic RCS. Both fullwave simulation and measurement results show that the proposed metasurface presents a good RCS reduction property over an ultra-wideband frequency range.     

Simulation analysis of an active cancellation stealth system

Active cancellation stealth is a smart signal blanking method, that it has become an important developing direction on modern stealth technology. In order to further explore the active cancellation stealth technology, we are considering the detection and cancellation of receiving/transmitting antenna pattern is different. Put forward active cancellation system simulation structure diagram based on MATLAB/SIMULINK, where the phased array radar system as the modelling object, and established the active cancellation stealth system mathematical model based on digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) and the radar signal processing system of the coherent video simulation model, based on linear frequency modulation and radar coherent pulse signal simulation, verified the rationality and validity of the design, as the active cancellation stealth engineering technology laid the foundation.     

Wideband radar cross section reduction based on absorptive coding metasurface with compound stealth mechanism

A scheme of combing wave absorption and phase cancellation mechanisms for widening radar cross section(RCS)reduction band is proposed. An absorptive coding metasurface implementing this scheme is derived from traditional circuit analog absorber(CAA) composed of resistive ring elements which characterize dual resonances behavior. It is constructed by replacing some of the CAA elements by another kind of resistive ring elements which is singly resonant in between the original two resonant bands and has reflection phase opposite to that of the original elements at resonance. Hence the developed metasurface achieves an improved low-RCS band over which the lower and higher sub-bands are mainly contributed by wave absorption mainly while the middle sub-band is formed by joint effect of wave absorption and antiphase cancellation mechanisms. The polarization-independent wideband RCS reduction property of the metasurface is validated by full-wave simulation results of a preliminary and an advanced design examples which employ the same element configuration but different element layout schemes as partitioned distribution and random coding. The advanced design also exhibits broadband bistatic low-RCS property and keeps a stable specular RCS reduction performance with regard to incident elevation angle up to 35°. The advanced design is fabricated and the experimental results of the sample agrees qualitatively well with their simulated counterparts. The measured figure of merit(i.e., low-RCS bandwidth ratio versus electrical thickness) of the sample is 40.572, which is superior to or comparable with those for most of other existing metasurface with compound RCS reduction mechanism. The proposed compound metasurface technique also features simple structure, light weight, low cost and easy fabrication compared with other techniques. This makes it promising in applications such as radar stealth and electromagnetic compatibility.     

高增益宽带圆极化Vivaldi天线阵的设计

提出了一种由新型Vivaldi天线单元构成的22十字交叉圆极化天线阵。Vivaldi天线单元采用边缘渐变对拓的锯齿结构,提高了天线在4.7～7.0 GHz频带内的增益,其反射系数低于-10 dB的带宽为2.4～11.0 GHz,具有超宽带线极化特性。圆极化天线阵测量结果显示,在4.5～7.0 GHz频带范围内,其轴比均低于3 dB,且整个频带范围内增益达11～13 dBi。     

基于吸聚一体的低散射传输型透镜设计

通过传输型超表面透镜与电路模拟雷达波吸收器的集成设计,提出了一种兼具透射波前变换与带外雷达散射截面减缩特性的微波复合材料设计方法。透镜采用亚波长分布的周期性单元,由梯度相位补偿对透射波进行调节,进而获得平面波前与球面波前之间的互易变换。并且,使用透镜在波前变换频带以外低频端的反射特征,结合单个有耗层设计,构造了电路模拟吸波器。选用一副缝隙耦合馈电的微带贴片天线单元作为初级馈源天线,观察到复合材料的波前变换特性可在宽频带范围内产生主瓣增益增强效果。与透镜相比,电路模拟吸波器的引入使得复合材料针对TE与TM极化分别可在130.68%与155.11%的频率范围内获得雷达散射截面减缩效果。通过全波模拟和实验测量,验证了辐射增益增强与雷达散射截面减缩效果,表明了复合材料吸聚一体设计的有效性。     

宽波束双馈源超宽带抛物面天线设计与仿真

 针对单馈源超宽带抛物面天线波束较窄的问题，设计了一种宽波束双馈源超宽带抛物面天线。该抛物面天线是由一个普通的抛物面从中间对称分式，并在中间以平板连接而成的。馈源采用改进型平面TEM喇叭天线，同轴垂直馈电方式。两个馈源分别置于抛物面的两个焦点上。并利用时域有限差分数值方法分析了该天线的辐射性能。通过改变抛物面的结构，调节双馈源与天线主轴的夹角等方法可以有效改善天线的辐射性能。结果表明，所设计的宽波束双馈源抛物面天线可以在远区更宽的空间上形成峰值功率比较均匀的电磁脉冲，在不降低峰值功率的前提下有效地增加了波束的宽度；在抛物面天线两边进行少量切割不会对辐射场产生明显影响，节省了空间。     

High gain and circularly polarized substrate integrated waveguide cavity antenna array based on metasurface

Two substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity antenna arrays based on metasurface are proposed in this paper. By rotating the metasurface element, circularly polarized and high gain antennas are achieved respectively. Firstly, multi-mode resonance theory is employed to broaden the bandwidth of the slot antenna. And then, an SIW cavity composed of 4×4 cornercut elements is added on the top of the slot antenna to achieve the circular polarization and improve the front-to-back ratio. Thirdly, the metasurface elements are sequentially rotated and a high gain antenna with 2-dBi enhancement on average in the operation band is obtained. Based on the two antenna units, two 2×2 antenna arrays are designed. The circularly polarized and high gain antenna arrays are both fabricated to verify the correctness. Furthermore, the novel wideband phase shifter is employed in the circularly polarized antenna to obtain an operating bandwidth of 38% (4.05 GHz-5.95 GHz) and AR bandwidth of 24.9% (4.4 GHz-5.65 GHz). The bandwidth of the high gain antenna can reach 42.7% (3.95 GHz-6.1 GHz) and with the gain enhancement of 2 dBi compared with that of the circularly polarized antenna. The gain remains steady in most of operating band within a variation of 1 dBi. It is remarkable that the rotating of the metasurface element has a great influence on the antenna performance, which provides a new explication for the multi-function antenna design.     

基于宽波束磁电偶极子天线的宽角扫描线性相控阵列

设计并加工了两款基于宽波束磁电偶极子天线单元的宽角扫描线性阵列.首先,通过加载磁偶极子的方法拓展了天线单元的3-dB波束宽度.然后,基于该宽波束天线单元设计了两款具有良好宽角扫描特性的一维阵列天线.实测结果表明,天线单元的E面方向图3-dB波束宽度在9GHz—12 GHz均大于107°,H面方向图3-dB波束宽度在7GHz—12 GHz均大于178°.E面阵列中心单元的有源驻波比在9GHz—13 GHz小于2,相对阻抗带宽为36.36%.H面阵列中心单元的有源驻波比在9.6GHz—12.6 GHz小于2.5,相对阻抗带宽为27.03%.E面阵列在9GHz—12 GHz可实现±70°的有效宽角扫描.H面阵列在9GHz—GHz可实现±90°的有效宽角扫描.与传统的扫描阵列相比,设计的阵列可实现有效宽带宽角扫描,在X波段相控阵雷达方面具有广阔的应用前景.     

基于极化旋转超表面的圆极化天线设计

本文通过设计出一种反射型极化旋转超表面,在8—12 GHz频域内实现高效的极化旋转,并将其加载于微带缝隙天线下方构成新型的极化旋转超表面天线,利用超表面的90°极化旋转效应,成功实现了天线的圆极化辐射调制.仿真与实验结果表明:圆极化天线的中心工作频率为GHz,阻抗带宽为8.3—10 GHz.当微带缝隙天线与极化旋转超表面的间距H=4.5mm时,天线在8.3—8.8 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射;当mm时,天线在8.8—9.3 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射;当=8mm时,天线在9.3—10 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射.实验结果与仿真结果相符,证明了此种设计方法的有效性,也为微带缝隙天线的圆极化设计提供了一种新的途径.     

超宽带TEM喇叭天线优化设计与实验

针对用于成像雷达系统的超宽带TEM喇叭天线进行了优化设计,兼顾辐射性能、馈入反射和小尺寸条件,采用平滑渐变结构和加载技术代替原设计,增加了低频电流的回流通道,从而改善了天线的低频特性,增强了其定向辐射能力。在理论分析的基础上对其进行了仿真,并按照仿真结果实际制作了一副天线,对天线进行了测试。仿真与实测结果表明:在电压驻波系数小于2时,该天线具有11∶1的阻抗带宽,较强的辐射能力和良好的定性辐射特性,能够满足雷达系统的需求。     

A Thin Self-Feeding Janus Metasurface for Manipulating Incident Waves and Emitting Radiation Waves Simultaneously

A thin metasurface has shown powerful capabilities in controlling either incident electromagnetic (EM) waves or radiation waves, but is difficult for both. Here, a self-feeding Janus metasurface (SFJ-MS) is proposed to manipulate the incident EM waves and emit the radiated waves simultaneously, which can realize the polarization conversion of incident waves, scattering control, EM wave radiation, and radiation-beam steering. On the upper of SFJ-MS, a diagonal-split square ring and a rectangular patch with rotation for radiation are designed to introduce anisotropy in the meta-atom for converting the polarization of incident EM waves. On the bottom of SFJ-MS, a self-feeding microstructure converts the alternating current into the excitation of SFJ-MS to emit the EM waves to free space. The multiple functions of SFJ-MS are comprehensively substantiated by measured results, which are in agreements with the stringent simulations. This SFJ-MS, with lightweight, compact, low profile, and power-efficient features, can find potential applications in phased array radar systems, wireless communication systems, polarimetric radar imaging systems, and target detection systems.     

Ultra-thin single-layer transparent geometrical phase gradient metasurface and its application to high-gain circularly-polarized lens antenna

A new method to design an ultra-thin high-gain circularly-polarized antenna system with high efficiency is proposed based on the geometrical phase gradient metasurface(GPGM).With an accuracy control of the transmission phase and also the high transmission amplitude,the GPGM is capable of manipulating an electromagnetic wave arbitrarily.A focusing transmission lens working at Ku band is well optimized with the F /D of 0.32.A good focusing effect is demonstrated clearly by theoretical calculation and electromagnetic simulation.For further application,an ultra-thin single-layer transmissive lens antenna based on the proposed focusing metasurface operating at 13 GHz is implemented and launched by an original patch antenna from the perspective of high integration,simple structure,and low cost.Numerical and experimental results coincide well,indicating the advantages of the antenna system,such as a high gain of 17.6 d B,the axis ratio better than 2 d B,a high aperture efficiency of 41%,and also a simple fabrication process based on the convenient print circuit board technology.The good performance of the proposed antenna indicates promising applications in portable communication systems.     

基于等离子体的定向天线阵理论与实验研究

当前国内学者对等离子体天线的研究主要集中于柱状天线和反射面天线, 而在国外已有学者以等离子体阵列结构设计了功能多样的智能天线系统. 为了较系统地了解这一新的设计思路, 基于等离子体散射理论对中心单元激励的圆形定向天线阵进行了理论和实验研究. 设计了一个16元等离子体无源振子的圆形天线阵, 实现了天线电磁波单波束和多波束的定向辐射. 通过理论计算和分析, 阐述了天线电磁波单波束和多波束辐射的原理. 通过建立实验系统, 测试了圆形天线阵的定向辐射特性. 实验结果和理论值接近, 说明该等离子体圆形天线阵可以实现天线电磁波的定向辐射和多波束辐射. 另外, 该天线阵还具有快速切换辐射方向、参数快速重构、雷达隐身性良好的优点. 关键词： 等离子体 定向天线阵 单波束 多波束     

Wu-King 加载偶极天线的FDTD分析

 用时域有限差分法分析了高斯脉冲激励的Wu-King加载偶极天线的特性。给出了天线周围空间瞬态场的变化情况及天线上的电流波形,这种形象化的结果为加载脉冲辐射天线的设计和改进提供了直观的物理依据。通过时域远近场变换,得到了天线脉冲辐射远场。计算并给出了描述脉冲辐射器性能的时域参数：保真度和能量方向图。     

一种兼有高增益和宽带低散射特征的波导缝隙天线设计

设计了一种同时具备高增益和宽带低散射特征的波导缝隙天线.将蚀刻有互补开口谐振环的方形贴片人工磁导体正交布阵得到宽带低雷达截面积(RCS)反射屏并以之代替原天线的全金属反射板,通过优化反射屏的加载方式,在展宽天线工作频带、提高天线增益的同时,实现了宽频域范围内天线鼻锥方向RCS减缩.实测结果表明:加载低RCS反射屏的缝隙天线工作带宽增加了100 MHz,前向增益提高了3.2 dB,在5.52—6.63GHz范围内RCS减缩量达10 dB以上,减缩带宽达到20%.     

Composite metamaterial enabled excellent performance of microstrip antenna array

This paper reports that the split ring resonators and complementary split ring resonators are compounded to construct a novel compact composite metamaterial.The composite metamaterial exhibits a unique property of blocking electromagnetic wave propagating in two directions near the resonant frequency.An example of two-element microstrip antenna array demonstrates that the developed metamaterial enables array performance that is an improvement in comparison with the traditional one,including mutual coupling suppression of 9.07 dB,remarkable side lobe suppression and gain improvement of 2.14 dB.The mechanism of performance enhancement is analysed based on the electric field and Poynting vector distributions in array.The present work not only is a meaningful exploration of new type composite metamaterial design,but also opens up possibilities for extensive metamaterial applications to antenna engineer.