Programmable reflective metasurfaces that combine the features of reconfigurable phased array antennas and reflectors are an effective solution for radar and modern communication systems. However, most of the demonstrated active metasurfaces support tunable responses for a specific frequency band. Thus, we propose a programmable metasurface that combines the advantages of multi-bit phase quantization and dual-band operations. To actively control the diverse functions, two PIN diodes are integrated on the radiating element, and these diodes are controlled by the biasing voltage. The unit cell is fabricated, and experimental characterization is performed in the waveguide measurement setup. The proposed design can be applied for imaging and high-capacity wireless communications.

This paper proposes an electronically reconfigurable unit cell for transmit-reflect-arrays in the X-band, which makes it possible to control the reflection or transmission phase independently by combining the mechanisms of reconfigurable transmitarrays and reconfigurable reflectarrays. The fabricated unit cell was characterized in a waveguide simulator. The return loss in the reflection mode and insertion loss in the transmission mode are smaller than 1.8 dB for all states at 10.63 GHz, and a 1-bit phase shift for both modes is achieved within 180° ± 10°. When compared to full-wave electromagnetic simulation results, the proposed unit cell shows good results and is thus verified.

A common-mode noise suppression filter for microstrip differential lines based on substrate integrated waveguide resonator (SIWR) is proposed in this paper. The proposed common-mode filter (CMF) consists of cascaded SIWR units with different size. The equivalent characteristic impedance circuit model of the proposed CMF is given to predict the common-mode suppression characteristics by introducing the spectral domain approach (SDA). Simulated results show that the common-mode noise is decreased more than 35 dB from 4.5 GHz to 11.4 GHz, and-30 dB rejection band is obtained in the frequency band of 4.3-15 GHz. Moreover, the insertion loss and the group delay in the frequency domain show that there is little degradation for differential signals. In the time domain, 86.5% amplitude suppression of common-mode noise is achieved. In addition, the eye diagrams in the time domain are investigated to explain the effectiveness of the proposed CMF and indicate that the CMF can maintain the differential signal integrity. The prototype is fabricated to verify the validity of the proposed structure, and the measurement results show good agreement with the simulation results. INDEX TERMS Common-mode filter (CMF), high-speed differential signals, spectral domain approach (SDA), substrate integrated waveguide resonator (SIWR), signal integrity.