Physical realization and reflection phase characteristics of a flexible high impedance surface

Author

Durgun, Ahmet C. ; Balanis, Constantine A. ; Birtcher, Craig R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Comput. & Energy Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

1844

Lastpage

1847

Abstract

This paper presents the fabrication and reflection phase measurements of a flexible high impedance surface (FHIS). The surface is fabricated by using DuPont pyralux polyimide as the substrate. Cyanoacrylate is used to adhere the samples of polyimide. The reflection phase response of the FHIS, which is curved in the form of a cylinder, is measured in the anechoic chamber and compared with that of the flat FHIS. As expected, reflection phase characteristics of the curved FHIS are polarization dependent and slightly different than those of the flat one. The measured reflection phase characteristics of the curved FHIS will be compared with simulations which presently are under consideration.

Keywords

anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); electromagnetic wave reflection; DuPont pyralux polyimide; anechoic chamber; cyanoacrylate; flexible high impedance surface; physical realization; reflection phase measurements; Antennas; Bandwidth; Impedance; Phase measurement; Substrates; Surface impedance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996856

Filename

5996856