Sandwiched frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed as an additional reflection surface for a dual-frequency reflectarray system. The range of reflection phase for a reflectarray depends on the substrate thickness sensitively. Usually, a tradeoff between the smooth linear level and the wide reflection phase range is needed, especially for a dual-frequency system. By inserting an FSS between the ground plane and the reflecting element layer, a selective plane for the dual-frequency band is provided. For the higher frequency band, the FSS layer is a reflection plane. For the lower frequency band, it is transparent and the reflection plane is changed into the metal ground plane. A dual-band reflectarray with a scattering angle of 30 degrees is simulated and measured to validate this concept.

A dual circular polarization Fabry–Pérot resonant antenna is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna consists of a microstrip antenna radiator and meta-surface. Meta-surface is applied into the design of a Fabry–Pérot (FP) resonant cavity for generating two circularly polarized (CP) beams. When the meta-surface functions as a partially reflecting surface with a top C-gaps array, dielectric substrate with holes periodically arranged around the atoms and bottom metal plate with strip gaps, the proposed design would split an LP wave from the feed into the left-hand CP and right-hand CP waves by rotating the top C-gaps to form prescribed phase gradients. Simulation and measurement results show that the proposed antenna is capable of generating left-hand CP and right-hand CP radiation beams pointing at 18° and −18° at 14.9 GHz with a stable gain of over 22.7 dBic and an aperture efficiency of 25.7%. The proposed technique offers an efficient way to fulfill FP resonant antennas with specific characteristics using meta-surface for more advanced functionalities.

A dual‐band dual‐polarized shared‐aperture antenna with suppression of cross‐band scattering for base station application is presented in this article. The proposed antenna consists of a lower‐frequency‐band (LFB) antenna and two 1 × 3 higher‐frequency‐band (HFB) arrays. The LFB antenna is designed with a novel configuration. Some chokes composed of inductive and capacitive elements are introduced for scattering current suppression of the cross‐band, which is the main reason for the deterioration of the radiation pattern of the HFB arrays. The measured results show that the LFB antenna with the operating frequency of 690–960 MHz and the HFB antenna with the operating frequency of 1710–2170 MHz achieve stable radiation characteristics in their respective bandwidth.

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