A Multifunctional Dual-Polarized Reconfigurable Metasurface With Tunable RCS Reduction and a Transmission Window for Conformal Platform Applications

Tingting Chen; Lizhong Song; Min Zhang

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2025.3627518

A Multifunctional Dual-Polarized Reconfigurable Metasurface With Tunable RCS Reduction and a Transmission Window for Conformal Platform Applications

Tingting Chen
, Lizhong Song^*
, Min Zhang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai

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Abstract

This letter presents a dual-polarized (DP) reconfigurable hybrid metasurface that combines an active reflective surface with a bandpass frequency selective surface. The proposed structure achieves a high-transmission window within the Ku band (15.4 GHz to 16 GHz) with insertion loss better than –1 dB, while simultaneously providing broadband radar cross section reduction (RCSR) in the X band. A 1-bit phase tuning is realized by switching the p-i-n diode states on the active surface, enabling DP 2-D beam scanning over a range of ±60^◦. Furthermore, the metasurface demonstrates robust low-frequency (X-band) RCSR and high-frequency (Ku-band) transmission performance when conformally mounted on highly curved cylindrical substrates, highlighting its potential for practical conformal antenna applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374-378
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3627518
State	Published - 2026
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Beam steering
conformal structure
radar cross section reduction (RCSR)
reconfigurable metasurface
transmission

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