In this work, a varactor‐tunable frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed; it is based on a common FSS composed of annular ring slot cells, in which four varactors are loaded on each annular ring slot to dynamically tune its resonant frequency in real time. In addition, an appropriate embedded bias network is added to introduce a same direct current bias voltage for each varactor. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the resonant‐frequency of the proposed FSS can be tuned over a 77.2% wide frequency range from 2.73 to 6.16 GHz by altering the capacitance of the varactors from 1.0 to 0.1 pF; moreover, the embedded bias network has little effect on the band‐pass response, and the minimum of the reflection coefficients is less than −24 dB at all times. Finally, one effective experimental validation is carried out. The proposed tunable FSS possesses the merits of wide tuning range and high transmittance; thus, it has great potential applications in the design of tunable radomes or adaptive screening of unwanted wireless transmissions.
Abstract-In this paper, a novel narrowband frequency selective surface (FSS) with a stable performance based on substrate integrated waveguide technology is presented. The unit cell of the FSS consists of a double-sided metalized substrate with a circular hole and a SIW circular cavity. In this way, incident EM waves enter the circular cavity and excite a TM 110 cavity resonance, leading to a narrow passband. The high-Q property of the TM 110 cavity resonance provides a very good wide-angle and polarization-independent stability. Both the simulation and experimental results show that such narrowband FSS owes its advantages to high selectivity, low profile stable performance with various incident angles and different polarizations, which is suitable for impulse detections, narrow-band communications, electronic countermeasures, etc.
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