Metasurface-Integrated Low-RCS Radome and Antenna Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026 | Viewed by 44
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metasurface-integrated low-RCS radomes; reconfigurable metamaterial radomes and antennas; multi-functional frequency selective rasorbers; phased antennas
Interests: metamaterial and metasurface; antenna; radar cross section reduction; phase-change RF switch
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our Special Issue focuses on the theoretical applications of metasurfaces and metamaterials in the research area of radomes and antennas. In recent years, Radome and Antenna Systems (RASs) have played an extremely important role in wireless communication and radar systems. The rapid development of metasurfaces and metamaterials widely expands the functionalities of the RASs. With the uses of metasurfaces and metamaterials, RASs realize the characteristics of spatial frequency selection, beam-shaping, electromagnetic shielding and scattering, and Radar Cross Section (RCS) reduction. In short, let us call them meta-RASs. Meanwhile, more and more novel algorithms are attributed to the design and optimizations of the meta-RASs. The projection and mapping algorithms are studied to design frequency selective metasurfaces for any curved surfaces. Other algorithms, such as ANN, CNN, and Transformer are applied to optimize the dimensions of the unit cells and the arrangements of metasurfaces and metamaterials to achieve excellent electromagnetic (EM) properties. The purpose of our topical collection is to gather the newest techniques in meta-RASs, and providing some feasibility plans for real radar and communication engineering. The research work in this collection is based on the existing literature. It is highly recommended that the proposals in this collection are creative, unique, easy to develop in engineering, and can bring improvements in the EM properties, while referring to the existing and proposed configurations.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Low-RCS and high-gain antennas based on frequency selective metasurfaces and metamaterials
- Low backscattering antennas based on reconfigurable metasurfaces and metamaterials
- Digital coding metasurface in radar and communication systems
- Metamaterial-based 3-D frequency selective rasorbers
- Conformal frequency selective radomes for arbitrary curvature
- Wideband RCS reduction in flexible metasurface rasorber radomes
- Conformal algorithms capable of optimizing the layout of a metasurface on any curved surface
- Algorithms for the optimization of the unit cells or the arrangements of the metasurfaces and metamaterials
Dr. Weiwei Wu
Dr. Yuejun Zheng
Dr. Dongfang Guan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metasurface
- metamaterial
- radome
- rasorber
- rntenna
- Radar Cross Section (RCS)
- reconfigurable
- conformal
- algorithms
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