J4 ›› 2013, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 130-134.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2013.05.021

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Application of metamaterial absorber for RCS reduction of slot antenna

YANG Huanhuan;CAO Xiangyu;GAO Jun;YAO Xu;LIU Tao;YANG Qun   

  1. (Information and Navigation Institute, AFEU, Xi'an  710077, China)
  • Received:2012-05-29 Online:2013-10-20 Published:2013-11-27
  • Contact: YANG Huanhuan E-mail:jianye8901@126.com

Abstract:

An ultra-thin metamaterial absorber with polarization stability, a wide incident angle and no surface ullage layer is proposed and applied to the waveguide slot antenna to reduce its in-band Radar Cross Section(RCS). Theoretical analysis, and simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the absorber can exhibit an absorption of 99% with thickness of only 0.0057λ,  that when applied to the waveguide slot antenna in an optimized distribution, it can reduce the in-band RCS of the antenna for more than 3dB from -21° to +21°,  that the largest reduction value exceeds 13dB in the normal direction, and that it can increase the gain by  0.99dB.

Key words: ultra-thin metamaterial absorber, waveguide slot antenna, radar cross section