TY - JOUR
T1 - Cylindrically Curved Checkerboard Surfaces for Radar Cross-Section Reduction
AU - Chen, Wengang
AU - Balanis, Constantine
AU - Birtcher, Craig R.
AU - Modi, Anuj Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 29, 2017; revised December 11, 2017; accepted January 2, 2018. Date of publication January 5, 2018; date of current version February 5, 2018. This work was supported by the Arizona State University Advanced Helicopter Electromagnetics Program. (Corresponding author: Constantine A. Balanis.) The authors are with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA (e-mail: Wengang. Chen@asu.edu; BALANIS@asu.edu; Craig.Birtcher@asu.edu; aymodi1@ asu.edu). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2789906
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PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Checkerboard surfaces, for radar cross-section (RCS) reduction, utilizing artificial magnetic conductor structures on flexible cylindrically curved ground planes are introduced. The RCSs of cylindrical checkerboard surfaces are examined for two different radii of curvature. Wideband curved checkerboard surfaces are evaluated under normal incidence for HH and VV polarizations. Simulated bistatic RCS patterns of the cylindrical checkerboard surfaces are presented, discussed, and justified, and the backscattering is compared with measurements. A very good agreement is observed.
AB - Checkerboard surfaces, for radar cross-section (RCS) reduction, utilizing artificial magnetic conductor structures on flexible cylindrically curved ground planes are introduced. The RCSs of cylindrical checkerboard surfaces are examined for two different radii of curvature. Wideband curved checkerboard surfaces are evaluated under normal incidence for HH and VV polarizations. Simulated bistatic RCS patterns of the cylindrical checkerboard surfaces are presented, discussed, and justified, and the backscattering is compared with measurements. A very good agreement is observed.
KW - Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC)
KW - curved checkerboard surfaces
KW - radar cross-section (RCS) reduction
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U2 - 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2789906
DO - 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2789906
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041206120
SN - 1536-1225
VL - 17
SP - 343
EP - 346
JO - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
JF - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
IS - 2
M1 - 8247285
ER -