Ultra-Thin Tunable Plasma-Metasurface Composites for Extremely Broadband Electromagnetic Shielding Applications

Abstract

Abstract-For the first time, the concept of combinational use of subwavelength metasurfaces and plasma media is introduced in this paper for being utilized in practical radio frequency (RF) shielding applications. Using an equivalent circuit model, it is demonstrated that the simultaneous use of the lossy characteristic and special dispersion of plasma in low-frequency regime and the transmission zeros provided by spatially homogeneous metasurfaces in the upper frequency band results in superior shielding performances. The designed coating layer has an ultra-thin profile while exhibiting a super wide reject band ranging from 1 to 20 GHz (|S 21 | < −10 dB). A fair comparison is also performed to elucidate that the proposed plasma-metasurface composite (PMC) shield outperforms the previously reported RF shielding FSSs in both bandwidth and thickness. The numerical results show that while maintaining a low profile, the shielding bandwidth of the designed PMC can be set to surprisingly include all the UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, and K bands. Moreover, the designed coating layer provides a stable and polarization-insensitive reject band for different incident wave angles up to 45 • . These superior performances, as well as the shielding tunability enabled by plasma, confirm the promising capabilities of PMC structures for various applications.

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