A Wide Passband Frequency Selective Surface with Angular Stability

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ZTE Communications ›› 2025, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 78-84.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202501010

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A Wide Passband Frequency Selective Surface with Angular Stability

TANG Xingyang¹, SUI Jia¹, FU Jiahui¹(), YANG Kaiwen², ZHAO Zhipeng²

^1.Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
^2.ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen 518057, China

Received:2023-09-24 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-03-25
About author:TANG Xingyang received his bachelor’s degree in electromagnetic field and wireless technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2022. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in electronic information at Harbin Institute of Technology.
SUI Jia received his BE degree in electronic science and technology from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2021, where he is currently pursuing his ME degree in electronic science and technology. His current research interests are the design of frequency selective surfaces and frequency selective absorber.
FU Jiahui (fjh@hit.edu.cn) received his PhD degree in information and communication engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2005. His current research interests are the design of microwave and millimeter wave circuits, antennas, supernormal media, MEMS and EMC. He has published more than 50 relevant academic papers in domestic and foreign journals.
YANG Kaiwen received his BS degree in electronic and information engineering and PhD degree in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology from Xidian University, China in 2016 and 2021, respectively. He is currently an engineer in ZTE Corporation. His current research interests include filtering antennas and base station antennas.
ZHAO Zhipeng received his BS and PhD degrees from Xidian University, China in 2015 and 2020, and then joined ZTE Corporation. He is currently a senior RF system engineer there. His main research directions include the 5G base station, non-terrestrial networks, vehicle radar, etc.
Supported by:
ZTE Industry?University?Institute Cooperation Funds(IA20220800001)

Abstract

Abstract:

A wide passband frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed using a five-layer stacked structure. The proposed structure applies four layers of dielectric plates and five layers of metal patches to provide a passband and exhibits more stable frequency responses and lower insertion loss under wide-angle oblique incidence compared with the typical three-layer metal-dielectric structure. According to the simulation results, the proposed FSS can achieve a passband range of 1.7–2.7 GHz with an insertion loss of less than 0.5 dB and a relative bandwidth of 44.1%, and it can preserve stable transmission characteristics with the incident angle ranging from 0° to 45°.

Key words: frequency selective surface (FSS), wide bandwidth, low insertion loss

TANG Xingyang, SUI Jia, FU Jiahui, YANG Kaiwen, ZHAO Zhipeng. A Wide Passband Frequency Selective Surface with Angular Stability[J]. ZTE Communications, 2025, 23(1): 78-84.

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Figure 1 Wave impedance of free space under oblique incidence

Figure 2 Geometry of the proposed wideband FSS: (a) 3D view of three-layer FSS; (b) 3D view of the proposed FSS (unit: mm; P = 36, R1 = 14.7,R2 = 13.5, h1 = 7, and h2 = 2.81); (c) 3D view of the interlayer cross slot of the proposed FSS (unit: mm; l = 24.14 and w = 7.29); (d) side view

Figure 3 Simulation scattering parameter results of FSS unit cell: (a) results with different cross slot lengths l; (b) results with different top patchradii R1; (c) results with different middle patch radii R2

Figure 4 Simulation results of the TE model

Figure 5 Insertion loss and polarization conversion

Figure 6 Equivalent-circuit model of FSS

Figure 7 Comparison results of equivalent circuit simulation with electromagnetic simulation

Figure 8 Simulated scattering parameter results of the FSS unit cell under oblique incident angles

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