A Low-Profile and Ultra-Wideband Pancharatnam-Berry Coding Metasurface for High-Efficiency and Wide-Angle Circular Polarization Anomalous Reflection

Materials (Basel). 2024 Sep 26;17(19):4730. doi: 10.3390/ma17194730.

Abstract

The manipulation of electromagnetic waves using metasurfaces is important in areas such as stealth and communication. In this paper, we reported on the use of an element-based polarizer for the first step, which enables the incident electromagnetic waves to integrate into the cross-polarized waves with a relative bandwidth of 88% within 15-37.1 GHz. Then, an eight-element coding metasurface based on the Pancharatnam-Berry phase is presented for circular polarization anomalous reflection. The simulated values show that our work can achieve a high-efficiency (94%) and wide-angle (70°) anomalous reflection under normal incidence. The simulated values present good agreement with the experimental values. Our work reveals the ability to manipulate the waves and electromagnetic stealth.

Keywords: anomalous reflection; circular polarization; coding metasurface; polarizer.