Metamaterial-inspired optically transparent active dual-band frequency selective surface with independent wideband tunability

Abstract

This paper presents an optically transparent active bandstop frequency selective surface (FSS) with wideband tunability of two resonance frequencies using the concept of miniaturized element FSS (MEFSS). The proposed design consists of metallic square loop arrays on a new optically transparent substrate as the top layer, a glass interlayer, and periodic patterns of cross dipoles on the substrate as the bottom layer. Two kinds of resonant elements loaded with varactors and the designed bias networks achieve two independent tunable stopbands. The proposed FSS has two large tuning ranges, one is from 1.20 GHz to 2.63 GHz and another is from 2.0 GHz to 5.9 GHz (75% and 99% with respect to the center frequency, respectively). The wideband dual-tuning mechanism is theoretically analyzed and demonstrated by deriving its equivalent circuit (EC) model. The experiment results exhibit reasonable agreement with the numerical simulation responses. This proposed design, with low profile, angular stability, polarization insensitivity, optical transparency, and wideband dual-tunability can play an important role in manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation for manifold applications.