A broadband and multipolarized fully reconfigurable unit cell is designed and fabricated in this paper. The unit cell uses 4 diodes to create a phase shifter with single-bit control. It exhibits an excellent bandwidth of 40% for both dual linear and circular polarizations in the X and Ku bands using the structure of 4 patches, a proper PIN diode placement, and a DC bias. The reflection coefficients of the cross polarizations are less than –50 dB, ensuring high isolation between the two polarizations. The experiment results show an agreement with the simulation results.
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