Abstract-Simulation and experimental measurement of a new design of an oblique incidence and polarization insensitive metamaterial absorber with multiband absorption is presented in this paper. The unit cell of the proposed metamaterial absorber comprises concentric continuous rings of different radii and widths placed in four different quadrants with identical pair of rings placed diagonally opposite, with each ring responsible for high absorption. The calculated dispersion behavior of MM absorber in terms of effective permittivity (ε eff ), effective permeability (μ eff ), and refractive index (η eff ) shows the metamaterial characteristics. The surface current and field distributions in MM absorber are simulated to understand the occurrence of absorption bands. The measured results show the absorption peaks of 99.5%, 99.8%, 99.5% and 99.9% at 7.20 GHz, 9.3 GHz, 12.61 GHz, and 13.07 GHz, respectively. The simulated results are well supported by the experimentally measured performance of the fabricated metamaterial absorber. It offers multiband absorption with bands lying in C-band, X-band and Kuband for mobile communication, satellite communication and radar applications. With merged third and fourth absorption peaks, the proposed metamaterial absorber structure exhibits a broadband absorption.
A new design of an ultra wide-band metamaterial absorber (MMA), with appreciable high absorptance insensitive to angle of incidence and polarization angle is presented in the manuscript. The MMA structure consists of three concentric rings with non-linear variation in the spacing and the thickness of the rings is controlled by a single parameter. The idea of utilizing nonlinear variation based unit cell resulted in high absorptance ultra wide-band frequency spectrum in X-band. The proposed MMA design is three layered structure. The metamaterial nature of the proposed device is explained by simulated values of Zeff(f), µeff(f), εeff(f), and ηeff(f). The FWHM bandwidth of proposed MMA is 6.32 GHz (7.36 GHz-13.68 GHz). The fabricated MMA is ultra-thin with thickness of λo/15.3 at centre frequency 9.8 GHz. The experimental results show absorptance greater than 99% at 7.9 GHz and 11.7 GHz, covering entire X-band range makes this MMA appropriate for providing stealth technology for defense equipments by reducing radar cross section (RCS).
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