Dual-Band Diffusive Metasurface-Based Reflector with Low Out-of-Band Backscattering

This article describes a dual-band diffusive metasurface-based reflector with a specular reflection band together with two sidebands which exhibit low radar cross-section (RCS). A rhombus-shaped patch-ring type of polarizer with dual-band characteristics is chosen as the fundamental unit cell. The polarizer and its mirror structure have opposite phases in the polarization-rotating bands while their phase is the same in the reflection band which is juxtaposed in-between the middle of the two polarization-rotating bands. The designed metasurface is constructed based on the phase cancellation theory by arranging arrays of these two unit cells in a two-dimensional pattern. The measured results show that the realized metasurface-based reflector achieves a high-efficiency specular window from 26.2 to 38.8 GHz together with two low-RCS sidebands from 18.18 to 24.6 GHz and 40.61 to 56.4 GHz. The proposed diffusive metasurface can be potentially used as a reflector for reflector antennas which provides a highly efficient in-band radiation together with low backscattering out-of-band.