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Frequency Selective Surfaces

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Traditionally, frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) comprising structures with periodicity in two dimensions have important applications as spatial filters in microwave and optics. Due to the manufacturing process, they are usually in the form of printed patches on a dielectric substrate or apertures in a conducting screen. Multiple FSS screens and dielectric layers can be stacked together to meet desirable spectral filter responses. For these structures, a surface discretization of the unknown currents and/or electric fields is more convenient, and efficient integral equation solutions are sought thereafter. Recent developments in manufacturing processes, material properties, and new wave phenomena call for periodic structures with three-dimensional (3D) unit-cell elements. There are situations that a volumetric discretization of the unit cell is more appropriate, and differential equation solutions are preferred. The advent of powerful commercial simulation tools allows effective FSS designs with more flexibility. Compounded with the popularity of 3D printings, some previously unimaginable FSS structures can now be cost-effectively realized. Exploitation of transmission and reflection information obtained from FSS also paves the way for better antenna designs.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to express their gratitude to H. Yi of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and D. Q. Liu, P. Zhao, and K. B. Ng of the City University of Hong Kong for their contributions in the design, simulation, and measurement of some of the frequency selective surfaces, lens antennas, and reflectarrays illustrated in this chapter. This work was supported partly by a GRF grant from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Project No. CityU 110713 and partly by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project No. 61371051.

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  2. School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

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Wang, D.S., Qu, SW., Chan, C.H. (2016). Frequency Selective Surfaces. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_23

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