A Triple-Band Reflective Polarization Conversion Metasurface with High Polarization Conversion Ratio for Ism and X-Band Applications

Badisa Anil Babu; Boddapati Taraka Phani Madhav; Sudipta Das; Niamat Hussain; Syed Samser Ali; Nam Kim

doi:10.3390/s22218213

A Triple-Band Reflective Polarization Conversion Metasurface with High Polarization Conversion Ratio for Ism and X-Band Applications

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Oct 26;22(21):8213. doi: 10.3390/s22218213.

Authors

Badisa Anil Babu^{1

2}, Boddapati Taraka Phani Madhav², Sudipta Das³, Niamat Hussain⁴, Syed Samser Ali⁵, Nam Kim⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GMR Institute of Technology, Razam 532127, India.
² Antennas & Liquid Crystals Research Centre, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram 522302, India.
³ Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, Malda 732103, India.
⁴ Department of Smart Device Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea.
⁵ Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, University Institute of Technology, Burdwan 713104, India.
⁶ Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea.

Abstract

A compact and triple-band polarization converting reflective type metasurface (PCRM) with a high polarization conversion ratio (PCR) is proposed for strategic wireless antenna-integrated applications. The unit cell of the metasurface is composed of S- and G-shaped patches separated with a parasitic gap and the grounded via is connected to the full ground plane. The unit cell is etched on an FR4 substrate (dielectric constant, ε_r = 4.4, loss tangent, tan δ = 0.02), with compact dimensions of 10 mm³ × 10 mm³ × 1.6 mm³. This structure provides a resonance at 5.2 (ISM), 6.9, and 8.05 GHz (X-band) frequencies. The designed unit cell structure is studied for Transverse Electric (TE)/Transverse Magnetic (TM) incident waves and their responses to the various incident angles. The corresponding PCR is calculated, which shows 92% in the lower frequency band (5.2 GHz), 93% in the second frequency band (6.9 GHz), and 94% in the high-frequency band (8.05 GHz). The total efficiency of the structure shows 83.2%, 62.95%, and 64.6% at the respective resonance bands. A prototype of the proposed PCRM with 3 × 3 unit cells is fabricated to validate the simulated results. The experimental data agrees with the simulation results. The compactness, triple-band operation with a high PCR value of more than 92% makes use of the designed metasurface in wireless antenna-integrated applications at ISM and X-bands.

Keywords: X-band; industrial scientific and medical (ISM); polarization conversion ratio (PCR); reflective metasurface (RM); triple-band.

MeSH terms

Computer Simulation
Electricity*
Humans
Refraction, Ocular
Translocation, Genetic
Wireless Technology*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2022-0-01031, Development of measured EMF big data analysis and management platform).