Design and Analysis of Polarization-Independent, Wide-Angle, Broadband Metasurface Absorber Using Resistor-Loaded Split-Ring Resonators

Abstract

Metasurface (MS) absorbers with polarization-insensitivity and wide-angle reception features have attracted much attention due to their unique absorption property. A polarization-insensitive broadband MS absorber structure, having wide-angle reception based on square split-ring resonators (SSRRs) and loaded with lumped resistors, is proposed in this paper. The proposed MS unit cell consists of a fixed-thickness FR4 dielectric substrate and a variable air-thickness substrate. The simulation results show that the proposed MS absorber is stable across a wide angular range for both normal and oblique incidences. Furthermore, the simulated results show that some parameters, such as unit-cell geometry and lumped resistors, can be varied to improve the performance of the MS absorber. The experimental results indicate that the proposed MS absorber can be achieved an absorption higher than 90% across the frequency range from 1.89 GHz to 6.85 GHz with a relative bandwidth of 113%, which is in agreement with simulation results. Thus, the proposed MS absorber can be more suitable in RF energy harvesting or wireless power transfer applications.

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