{"title":"Low-Profile Flexible Wideband Microwave Absorber With Resistive Ink","authors":"Soumen Pandit, A. Mohan, J. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/imarc49196.2021.9714619","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a wideband low-profile flexible microwave absorber for military applications following stealth technology. The absorber is designed on low-cost flexible composite substrate of Kapton and Neoprene Rubber with a total thickness of $0.045 \\lambda_{0}$ at the lowest absorption frequency, i.e., 1.5 GHz. The 80 % absorption fractional bandwidth is 126 %, i.e., 1.5-6.6 GHz for all polarizationangles and a wide range of incident angles. The monostatic RCS reduction to the proposed absorber is 18 dB compared to that of a same-sized metal sheet at around the frequency of 5 GHz.","PeriodicalId":226787,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMARC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/imarc49196.2021.9714619","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents a wideband low-profile flexible microwave absorber for military applications following stealth technology. The absorber is designed on low-cost flexible composite substrate of Kapton and Neoprene Rubber with a total thickness of $0.045 \lambda_{0}$ at the lowest absorption frequency, i.e., 1.5 GHz. The 80 % absorption fractional bandwidth is 126 %, i.e., 1.5-6.6 GHz for all polarizationangles and a wide range of incident angles. The monostatic RCS reduction to the proposed absorber is 18 dB compared to that of a same-sized metal sheet at around the frequency of 5 GHz.