A Novel Design of Microwave Absorbers Based on Multilayered Composite Materials for Reduction of Radar Cross Section

Authors

  • Hong Qin Zheng Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
  • Yi Tao Huang Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
  • Mei Song Tong Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370310

Keywords:

microwave absorber, absorbing media, radar cross section, transmission line theory, particle swarm optimization

Abstract

Reduction of radar cross section (RCS) for targets can be achieved by different approaches and coating absorbing materials at the surfaces of targets is one of widely used methods because of its flexibility and good effect. In the work, we put forward a novel method of reducing the RCS based on the design of multilayer composite absorbing materials. The transmission line theory and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are used to guide the design and analysis, and two kinds of designs, i.e., Type IV and Type VII, are selected finally. Simulation experiments show that the designs are insensitive to the incident angles and polarizations of incident EM wave, which is required for being coated at the surfaces of real objects. Also, the designed absorbing materials are very thin and have an ultra-wide frequency band. The bandwidth of Type-IV design can reach 14.6314.63 GHz, ranging from 3.373.37 to 18.018.0 GHz, while Type-VII design can cover the frequency range from 2.02.0 to 18.018.0 GHz, which represents the major part of radar’s frequency range. The designed absorbing materials are coated at the surface of a perfectly-electric-conducting (PEC) cylinder to validate the effectiveness of the materials, and good results have been obtained.

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Author Biographies

Hong Qin Zheng, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

Hong Qin Zheng received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China, in July 2017, and the M.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in July 2020. She is currently working in Shanghai Kunqin Information Technology Co., Ltd. as an electronic engineer. She won the third place of the 15th “HUAWEI CUP” National Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling in 2018. Her research interest is mainly in Applied Computational Electromagnetics.

Yi Tao Huang, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

Yi Tao Huang is an undergraduate student majoring in Microelectronics Science and Engineering in Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and is expected to receive the B.S. degree in July 2023. He has won the first prize of College Students Innovation Experience Competition and the third prize of Tongji University Physics Competition and written two conference papers as the first author. His research interests include antenna design, reduction technique for radar cross section and integrated circuit design.

Mei Song Tong, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

Mei Song Tong received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, all in electrical engineering. He is currently the Distinguished Professor and Head of Department of Electronic Science and Technology, and Vice Dean of College of Microelectronics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, and an honorary professorship at the University of Hong Kong, China. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and co-authored 6 books or book chapters. His research interests include electromagnetic field theory, antenna theory and design, simulation and design of RF/microwave circuits and devices, interconnect and packaging analysis, inverse electromagnetic scattering for imaging, and computational electromagnetics.

Prof. Tong is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and Full Member (Commission B) of the USNC/URSI. He has been the chair of Shanghai Chapter since 2014 and the chair of SIGHT committee in 2018, respectively, in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He has served as an associate editor or guest editor for several well-known international journals, including IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, International Journal of Numerical Modeling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Progress in Electromagnetics Research, and Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, etc. He also frequently served as a session organizer/chair, technical program committee member/chair, and general chair for some prestigious international conferences. He was the recipient of a Visiting Professorship Award from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2012, and from University of Hong Kong, China, in 2013. He advised and coauthored 12 papers that received the Best Student Paper Award from different international conferences. He was the recipient of the Travel Fellowship Award of USNC/URSI for the 31th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) in 2014, Advance Award of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipal Government in 2015, Fellowship Award of JSPS in 2016, Innovation Award of Universities’ Achievements of Ministry of Education of China in 2017, Innovation Achievement Award of Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration of China in 2019, “Jinqiao” Award of Technology Market Association of China in 2020, and Baosteel Education Award of Baosteel Education Foundation of China in 2021. In 2018, he was selected as the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for 2019–2021.

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2022-07-10

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H. Q. . Zheng, Y. T. . Huang, and M. S. . Tong, “A Novel Design of Microwave Absorbers Based on Multilayered Composite Materials for Reduction of Radar Cross Section”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 03, pp. 326–334, Jul. 2022.

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