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Abstract—In this letter, a kind of composite radar absorption thickness of 2 mm [2]. Therefore, it is urgent to improve the
material consisting of gradient and spiral square resistor fre- absorption bandwidth of RAMs and decrease their weight.
quency selective surface (FSS) and magnetic sheets is designed Compared to traditional radar absorption materials, fre-
by HFSS. The use of resistor FSS makes a significant increase of
quency selective surface (FSS) can greatly reduce the weight.
operating bandwidth compared to single magnetic radar absorp-
tion materials (mRAMs). Under the condition of normal incident FSS consists of 2-D periodic arrays of metallic elements,
electromagnetic wave, it has remarkable absorptive performance which has been widely researched in antenna applications and
with the reflectivity below 10 dB with a thin thickness of 2 mm RAMs. However, its absorbing bandwidth needs to be further
in the range of 6–18 GHz. In addition, the composite mRAMs improved. Recently, a new type of FSS, which is loaded with a
exhibits high angular stability when the incident angle ranges series of lumped elements such as resistors, capacitors, induc-
from 0 to 30 . In order to illustrate the importance of resistors, tors, and diodes between or in the unit cells, is more attractive
a comparative experiment of structure with nonresistor FSS is
made. Experimental results are compared to numerical simula-
in the design of a microwave absorber. Our group researched
tions. They are in agreement with each other. the FSS loaded with different resistors between cells. The
absorption performance remarkably increased owing to the
Index Terms—Frequency selective surface (FSS), magnetic
ohm loss of resistors compared to the FSS without resistors.
radar absorption materials (mRAMs).
However, it still has a narrow broadband reflectivity response
below 10 dB and a big thickness of 3.7 mm [3].
I. INTRODUCTION Based on the above consideration, people began to research
the combination of FSS and RAM in order to develop composite
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Fig. 4. Modeled reflectivity of composite mRAMs at oblique incidence of (a) TE and (b) TM polarized waves.
Fig. 7. Surface current density of composite mRAMs with nonresistor FSS and
resistor FSS. (a) Nonresistor FSS at E- . (b) Resistor FSS at E- . (c) Nonre-
sistor FSS at E- . (d) Resistor FSS at E- .
TABLE I
PARAMETERS OF COMPOSITE MRAMS
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