“…Although, this procedure may seem simple for the single-layer structure, implementing it for the two-layer structure is a tedious task and, hence, that design procedure is not explained here for the sake of brevity. The other way is to use the numerical optimization techniques [27,28]. In order to understand the nature of the resonances or the wideband behavior of the two-layer mushroom absorber, here we will use the strategy that was implemented to study the wideband behavior of single-layer mushroom absorber, i.e., studying the reflection magnitude behavior for various R s ranging from 0 to ∞.…”