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Broadband Radar Cross-Section Reduction Using AMC Technology

2013; IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society; Volume: 61; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tap.2013.2282915

1558-2221

Juan Carlos Iriarte, Amagoia Tellechea Pereda, Jose Luis Martinez de Falcon, Iñigo Ederra, R. Gonzalo, P. de Maagt,

Antenna Design and Optimization

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a planar broadband chessboard structure to reduce the radar cross-section (RCS) of an object. The chessboard -like configuration is formed by combining two artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) cells. The bandwidth limitations intrinsic to AMC structures are overcome in this work by properly selecting the phase slope versus frequency of both AMC structures. A 180 ° phase difference has been obtained over more than 40% frequency bandwidth with a RCS reduction larger than 10 dB. The influence of the incidence angle in the working bandwidth has been performed. A good agreement between simulations and measurements is achieved.