TY  - EJOU
AU  - Narayan, Shiv 
AU  - Jha, R M 

TI  - A Novel Metamaterial FSS-based Structure for Wideband Radome Applications
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2013
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - A novel metamaterial based FSS (frequency selective surfaces) structure is presented in this paper for wideband airborne radome applications. The proposed metamaterial-FSS structure consists of three layers, where a DPS (double positive sign) layer is sandwiched between a MNG (μ-negative) and ENG (ε- negative) layer, exhibits very good bandpass characteristics inside the operational band along with excellent roll-off characteristics outside the band. The EM performance analysis of the proposed structure has been carried out using transmission line transfer matrix (TLTM) method, which shows excellent bandpass characteristics over a wide frequency range. The transmission efficiency is over 95% both at normal incidence and at high incidence angles of 30°, and 60°. The frequency range extends from S- to X-band (2.5-9.9 GHz). In view of streamlined airborne radome applications, the reflection properties and insertion phase delay (IPD) are also determined at high incident angles.
KW  - Metamaterial
KW  -  Metamaterial-FSS
KW  -  Transmission line transfer matrix method

DO  - 10.3970/cmc.2013.037.097