Bandwidth Limit and Synthesis Approach for Single Resonance Ultrathin Metasurfaces
arXiv:1912.03936 · doi:10.1088/1361-6463/abb390
Abstract
Metasurfaces have emerged as a promising technology for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves within a thin layer. In planar ultrathin metasurfaces, there exist rigorous narrowband design methods, based on the equivalent surface impedance of patterned metallic layers on dielectric substrates. In this work, we derive a limit on bandwidth achievable in these metasurfaces, based on constraints that their meta-atoms should be passive, causal and lossless, and that they should obey the time-bandwidth product rules of a single resonance structure. The results show that in addition to elementary design parameters involving variation of the surface impedance, the bandwidth is critically limited by the dielectric substrate thickness and permittivity. We then propose a synthesis method for broadband ultrathin metasurfaces, based on an LC resonance fit of the required surface impedance, and experimentally verify a broadband dispersive structure at millimeter-wave frequencies. This results in a bandwidth enhancement of over 90%, relative to a reference metasurface created with the narrowband design process.
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