This review paper combs through reports that have enhanced antenna gain for ultra-wideband (UWB) frequencies using frequency-selective surface (FSS) techniques. The FSS techniques found across the research landscape were mapped onto a taxonomy in ord...
Radome stealth technology is a key research area in aircraft stealth design. Traditional aircraft stealth methods primarily focus on optimizing the shape to scatter radar waves and using absorbing materials to absorb radar waves. However, when these...
Frequency-selective surfaces (FSS) are two-dimensional geometric structures made of conductive materials that selectively transmit or reflect electromagnetic waves. In this paper, flexible FSS made on textile and film substrates is presented and comp...
In order to further expand the RCS reduction model of the miniature broadband antenna, a four-notch shaped FSS radome insensitive to the number of array elements is designed based on the multi-layered medium Green’s function and the transflecti...
This study introduces a novel antenna based on the binary operation of a modified circular patch in conjunction with the Koch fractal. The antenna is intended for applications in the sub-6 GHz band, partial C-band, and X-band. The low-cost antenna is...
In this paper, the novel design methodology of 2-D beam focusing control based on passive frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed and described. The beam focusing antenna is composed of 1-D array source and 2-D FSS having a good transmittance a...
In this study, a method was experimentally verified for further reducing the radar cross-section (RCS) of a two-dimensional planar target by using a dielectric rim in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma generator using a frequency selective s...
In this study, a dual-band dual-beam shared-aperture reflector antenna based on a Cassegrain configuration is designed using a frequency-selective surface (FSS) subreflector. The antenna generates two shaped beams that operate at different frequencie...
Fifth-generation (5G) networks have been deployed alongside fourth-generation networks in high-traffic areas. The most recent 5G mobile communication access technology includes mmWave and sub-6 GHz C-bands. However, 5G signals possibly interfere with...
The ATSC 3.0 standard supports ultra-high-definition broadcasting and introduces transmitter identification (TxID) to enable robust operation in single-frequency networks (SFNs). TxID typically relies on long spreading codes to minimize interference,...
A greenhouse covering film is an essential part of any greenhouse. Its function is to filter solar radiation in the ultraviolet (UV) and the near-infrared (NIR) bands while allowing a great amount of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) to trans...
In this paper, a compact multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for an off/on-body wireless body area network (WBAN) is presented. The proposed antenna comprises eight elements arranged in a side-by-side, orthogonal, and across configuration o...
This paper describes and validates an advanced synthesis design process of Frequency-Selective Surfaces (FSSs) with elliptic band-stop responses. A systematic procedure based on the Generalized Chebyshev Function and the extracted pole technique enab...
In this study, a hybrid sensor based on a defective square-truncated patch antenna (STPA) and a frequency-selective surface (FSS) was analyzed numerically and experimentally for different glucose–distilled water solutions. Here, an FSS was empl...
A frequency selective surface (FSS) integrated conformal antenna is modelled and analytical study is presented in this article. A novel antenna design known as the “M-shaped Conformal Antenna with FSS Backing for Gain Improvement” makes u...
A dual-band directional antenna for Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band application is proposed in this article. The antenna consists of two layers of substrates. The first layer contains the square loop loading with a meander stub to real...
Sandwiched frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed as an additional reflection surface for a dual-frequency reflectarray system. The range of reflection phase for a reflectarray depends on the substrate thickness sensitively. Usually, a tradeof...
A novel stopband frequency-selective surface (FSS) made of high-conductivity graphene assemble films (HCGFs) for reducing the mutual coupling between dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) is investigated and presented. The FSS is a “Hamburg” structure...
This paper proposes a highly symmetrical miniaturized, frequency-selective surface (FSS) based on LC parallel resonance to optimize high-frequency passband characteristics, enhancing transmission efficiency under large-angle conditions. Through meand...
A growing need for sampling environmental spaces in high detail is driving the rapid development of non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) sensing technologies. LiDAR sensors, capable of precise 3D measurement at various scales from indoor to landsca...
The present work describes a new approach for the design of a Frequency-Selective Surface (FSS) in the context of frequency filters to increase isolation between two vehicle-borne antennas. A compact FSS design based on nested square meandered resona...
Conventional design methodologies for Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSSs) are often plagued by challenges such as difficulties in determining unit cell structures, a plethora of optimization parameters, and substantial computational demands. In respo...
Radiation from a cavity-backed circular aperture array antenna enclosed by a frequency selective surface (FSS) radome is studied using the hybrid analysis method, by combining the mode matching method, the ray tracing technique, and Huygens’s p...
A wideband, ultra-thin, wide-angle and polarization-insensitive metamaterial absorber with a single-layer resistive frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed. The simulated results show that the absorption rate of the absorber is greater than 90%...
A frequency-selective surface (FSS) optimization method combining a curve-fitting technique and an improved bacterial foraging optimization (IBFO) algorithm is proposed. In the method, novel Koch curve-like FSS and Minkowski fractal islands FSS were...
A design method of large-sized square-loop and circular-loop frequency selective surface (FSS) filters for protection of mm-wave imagining receivers is presented. Due to fine cell structure requirements, the performance of the FSS structures at mm-wa...
This study analysed a novel re-liquefaction system integrated with a fuel supply system (FSS) for an LPG carrier to conventional systems. The re-liquefaction system and FSS were installed independently in a conventional LPG carrier, while those syste...
Insufficient utilization of industrial solid waste and the high carbon emissions caused by the use of cement in engineering construction are two challenges faced by China. This study aimed to develop a multi-source industrial solid waste cementitious...
In high-power microwave applications, the electromagnetic-thermal effect of frequency selective surface (FSS) cannot be ignored. In this paper, the electromagnetic-thermal coupling effects of cross-slot FSS were studied. We used an equivalent circuit...
This article presents a miniaturized dual-band frequency selective surface (FSS) based on capacitance-enhancing technique for RF shielding applications. The FSS incorporates two independent corner-modified square loop (CMSL) elements realized on a lo...
Frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs) have attracted great attention owing to their unique feature to manipulate transmission performance over the frequency domain. In this work, a filtering antenna-filtering antenna (FA-FA) FSS with a wide passband an...
In this article, a single-layer frequency selective surface (FSS)-loaded compact coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed antenna is proposed for very high-gain and ultra-wideband applications. At the initial stage, a geometrically simple ultra-wideband (UWB) an...
In this paper, a dual-passband frequency selective surface (FSS) with high angular stability and polarization insensitivity is proposed. The unit structure consists of a circular aperture, two annular apertures and four cross apertures. The designed...
A perforated medium (PM) combined with an ultra-wideband frequency selective surface (FSS) is proposed for the antenna radome design, which provides more flexibility in the radome materials selection and processing. The dielectric constant performanc...
This paper presents a wideband and high-gain rectangular microstrip array antenna with a new frequency-selective surface (FSS) designed as a reflector for the sub-6 5G applications. The proposed antenna is designed to meet the US Federal Communicatio...
Cascading similar frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) improves the roll-off rate and frequency selectivity of THz bandpass filters. However, resonant coupling between FSS layers causes anomalous transmission peaks. In this work, we have employed an e...
This study examines how English newspapers portrayed the First Saudi State (FSS) between 1794 and 1819, focusing on their role in shaping European perceptions. The starting point, 1794, corresponds to the earliest located article mentioning the FSS,...
Due to the global growth in popularity of Fifth Generation (5G) cellular communications, the demand for shielding against it has risen for a variety of applications, mainly related to cybersecurity but also to isolation, calm areas and so on. This re...
This paper presents a highly compact frequency-selective surface (FSS) that has the potential to switch between the X-band (8 GHz–12 GHz) and C-band (4 GHz–8 GHz) for RF shielding applications. The proposed FSS is composed of a square conducting loop...
This study presents an innovative Dual-Band Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) designed for LTE applications, offering an effective solution for minimizing Passive Inter-Modulation (PIM) in contemporary wireless communication systems at the base stati...
This study serves as a research endeavor aiming to explore the behavior of the coupling flow effects of the single expansion ramp nozzle (SERN) in over-expansion conditions during the static start-up process. The open-source program OpenFOAM and its...
The frequency selective surface (FSS) is a periodic structure with filtering performance for optical and microwave signals. The general periodic arrays made with patterned metallic elements can act as an aperture or patch on a substrate. In this work...
Microalloying and heat treatment are essential processing techniques for ferritic stainless steel (FSS). Three different compositions of 21%Cr FSS with 0.28Ti, 0.21Ti + 0.05Nb, and 1.05Ti + 0.17Nb were prepared. The interaction effects of the Nb and...
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The classification of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) could have negative consequences for patients with functional somatic syndromes (FSS). By grouping related but distinct syndromes into one label, the MUS classification fails to inform clinic...
In this paper, a printed monopole antenna with stable omnidirectional radiation patterns is presented for applications in ocean buoy and the marine Internet of Things (IoT). The antenna is composed of a rectangular patch, a cross-ground structure, an...
Diverse application scenarios demand frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs) with tailored center frequencies and bandwidths. However, their design traditionally relies on iterative full-wave simulations using tools such as the High-Frequency Structure S...
In this paper, a highly selective quad-band frequency selective surface (FSS) with ultra-wideband rejection is presented. The proposed FSS structure was developed by cascading five metallic layers by three thin dielectric substrates. The five metalli...
A dual-band, dual-polarized frequency selective surface (FSS)-backed multilayer reflectarray antenna is designed for 5G high-speed satellites operating at Ka-band uplink and downlink frequencies (20/30 GHz). A reflectarray antenna system consists of...
In this paper, a 38 GHz 4-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with considerable isolation and gain enhancement for 5G applications is introduced. The suggested antenna element is a monopole antenna composed of a circular patch with a r...
To enhance the comprehensive performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) ferritic stainless steel (FSS) interconnectors, a novel approach involving composite electrodeposition and thermal conversion is proposed to prepare Ni-doped Co-Mn composite s...
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