{"title":"Layered Admittance Reconstruction to Synthesize Broadband FSS Absorbers With Ultralow Reflection","authors":"Nan Wang;Guobin Wan;Qimin Ding;Xin Ma","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2026.3703046","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Synthesizing multilayer resistive frequency-selective-surface (FSS) absorbers under stringent wideband low-reflection requirements remains challenging, as the required contribution of each layer is not straightforward to prescribe. This letter presents a layered admittance reconstruction method, in which a reference Jaumann absorber serves as a target generator, and its input-admittance trajectories at different layer positions are reconstructed in a compact multilayer FSS absorber with thinner spacers. For each reconstruction stage, the ideal complex admittance required by the current FSS layer is determined from the corresponding reference trajectory and the already reconstructed lower substructure. With the lower substructure fixed, the current layer is synthesized against this prescribed admittance target, thereby providing an explicit stagewise organization for multilayer synthesis. A resistive FSS unit cell with enhanced admittance tailoring is developed to realize the prescribed layerwise admittance targets. A four-layer absorber achieves reflection below <inline-formula><tex-math>$-\\text{20}$</tex-math></inline-formula> dB from 3.47 GHz to 20.38 GHz (141.8%) and below <inline-formula><tex-math>$-\\text{30}$</tex-math></inline-formula> dB from 4.14 GHz to 12.92 GHz (103.0%) in simulation. Measurements validate a normal-incidence band near <inline-formula><tex-math>$-\\text{20}$</tex-math></inline-formula> dB from 3.15 to 17 GHz; transverse electric (TE)-polarized measurements further support the angular response under selected conditions.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"25 9","pages":"3466-3470"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11560878/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/6/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Synthesizing multilayer resistive frequency-selective-surface (FSS) absorbers under stringent wideband low-reflection requirements remains challenging, as the required contribution of each layer is not straightforward to prescribe. This letter presents a layered admittance reconstruction method, in which a reference Jaumann absorber serves as a target generator, and its input-admittance trajectories at different layer positions are reconstructed in a compact multilayer FSS absorber with thinner spacers. For each reconstruction stage, the ideal complex admittance required by the current FSS layer is determined from the corresponding reference trajectory and the already reconstructed lower substructure. With the lower substructure fixed, the current layer is synthesized against this prescribed admittance target, thereby providing an explicit stagewise organization for multilayer synthesis. A resistive FSS unit cell with enhanced admittance tailoring is developed to realize the prescribed layerwise admittance targets. A four-layer absorber achieves reflection below $-\text{20}$ dB from 3.47 GHz to 20.38 GHz (141.8%) and below $-\text{30}$ dB from 4.14 GHz to 12.92 GHz (103.0%) in simulation. Measurements validate a normal-incidence band near $-\text{20}$ dB from 3.15 to 17 GHz; transverse electric (TE)-polarized measurements further support the angular response under selected conditions.
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