Chinese Physics B, Volume. 29, Issue 10, (2020)

Ultra-wideband linear-to-circular polarization conversion metasurface

Bao-Qin Lin, Lin-Tao Lv, Jian-Xin Guo, Zu-Liang Wang, Shi-Qi Huang, and Yan-Wen Wang
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  • School of Information Engineering, Xijing University, Xi’an 710123, China
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    An ultra-wideband and high-efficiency reflective linear-to-circular polarization conversion metasurface is proposed. The proposed metasurface is composed of a square array of a corner-truncated square patch printed on grounded dielectric substrate and covered with a dielectric layer, which is an orthotropic anisotropic structure with a pair of mutually perpendicular symmetric axes u and v along the directions with the tilt angles of ±45° with respect to the vertical y axis. When the u- and v-polarized waves are incident on the proposed metasurface, the phase difference between the two reflection coefficients is close to –90° in an ultra-wide frequency band, so it can realize high-efficiency and ultra-wideband LTC polarization conversion under both x- and y-polarized incidences in this band. The proposed polarization conversion metasurface is simulated and measured. Both the simulated and measured results show that the axial ratio (AR) of the reflected wave is kept below 3 dB in the ultra-wide frequency band of 5.87 GHz–21.13 GHz, which is corresponding to a relative bandwidth of 113%; moreover, the polarization conversion rate (PCR) can be kept larger than 99% in a frequency range of 8.08 GHz–20.92 GHz.

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    Bao-Qin Lin, Lin-Tao Lv, Jian-Xin Guo, Zu-Liang Wang, Shi-Qi Huang, Yan-Wen Wang. Ultra-wideband linear-to-circular polarization conversion metasurface[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(10):

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    Paper Information

    Received: Mar. 19, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 21, 2021

    The Author Email: Lin Bao-Qin (aflbq@sina.com)

    DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/ab9de5

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