A Novel Polarization Convert Surface Based on Artificial Magnetic Conductor

Design of broadband transpolarizing surfaces

“…The studied parameters are the patch width lx, the patch height lh, and the slot dimension given by la (Figs. [4][5][6]. It can be seen that all three parameters strongly influence both the depth of transpolarization, as well as the frequency band in which it occurs.…”

“…Two papers [4,5] show surfaces designed for transformation from linear to circular polarization. The first considers, as we will do, high-impedance surfaces as a starting point, but the transpolarization level is relatively weak.…”

“…Metamaterials recently attracted great interest from the scientific community [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. One of the major reasons behind this enormous interest is the possibility of engineering materials with desired properties in their response to electromagnetic waves.…”

“…Pendry suggested several structures that posses negative permeabilities over a certain frequency range [2]. Soon after, these structures were experimentally realized to exhibit negative permeabilities [3][4][5][6][7][8]. The major idea behind all of these structures is to create a magnetic dipole that has some "inertia" by means of an RLC circuit.…”

“…A regular collection of such magnetic dipoles lead to the realization of negative effective permeabilities. Materials that possess negative permeabilities open the door for diverse possibilities of physically interesting phenomenon and novel applications such as negative refraction [3][4][5][6][7], subwavelength focusing of light [10 -12], reverse Doppler shift [13,14], and lenses with resolutions well beyond the conventional lenses [15].…”