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This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China-973 A. Three-layer MA unit cell
program 2015CB857100, National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. As depicted in Fig. 1(a), the unit cell of three-layer MA is a
61401327, 61471278, 61601350), the Foundation of Chinese Academy of
Space Technology (CAST 2015-11), and Natural Science Basic Research Plan symmetrical structure composed of three metal loops and a
in Shaanxi Province of China (no. 2015JQ6217). metal ground. The MA cell is designed on the FR4 substrate
The authors are with the National Key Laboratory of Antennas and with a relative permittivity of 4.4. Two adjacent metal sheets
Microwave Technology, and the Collaborative Innovation Center of
Information Sensing and Understanding, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071,
are separated by the dielectric substrate with the thickness of
China (e-mail: jw13@vip.qq.com). 0.5mm. The metal is copper with a conductivity of 5.8×107 S/m.
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(a) (b)
Fig. 2. Absorptivity results of four single-ring MA structures (N=6, 8, 10 and
14) for (a) radial and (b) concentric polarization. Fig. 3. Geometry of the dual-ring MA (Top view of Layer-i)
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TABLE I
OPTIMIZED DIMENSIONS OF DUAL-RING MA (UNIT : MM)
Parameter li1 wi1 gi1 li2 wi2 gi2
Layer-3 7.8 1.2 1.0 7.8 1.3 1.0
Layer-2 7.6 1.2 1.2 7.6 1.0 1.2
Layer-1 7.8 1.2 1.0 7.8 1.1 1.0
(a) (b)
Fig. 4. (a) Simulations of the absorptivity of dual-ring and each single-ring MA,
and (b) comparison of RCS reductions of dual-ring MA and 6 6 array.
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Fig. 9. Comparison of the monostatic RCS of the proposed and the reference
antenna.
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