Preparation of ring-shaped frequency selective fabrics and analysis of electromagnetic transmission characteristics

Abstract

In order to explore the feasibility of preparing frequency selective fabrics by computer embroidery technology, two complementary ring-shaped structures were selected for design in this paper. Several samples with different size parameters were prepared by the computer embroidery process, and the electromagnetic transmission characteristics were systematically tested using the free-space method. The effects of unit type, electromagnetic wave polarization mode, incident angle, unit size parameters and processing methods on different samples were analyzed in depth. The results show the aperture-type and patch-type samples have obvious band-pass and band-stop characteristics in the test frequency range, respectively, but there are some differences in the resonance frequency and peak of the complementary structure samples of the same size. Different parameters have dissimilar influences on the electromagnetic transmission characteristics. With the increase in incident angle, the frequency selective characteristics of two complementary structures are gradually weakened, and the aperture structure has higher angular stability. Under the conditions of different electromagnetic wave polarization modes and incident angles, the computer embroidery samples have good frequency selective characteristics, which demonstrates the effectiveness of computer embroidery processing technology. However, compared with the ideal computer-based carving sample, there is a certain gap in the resonance peak, and the electromagnetic loss is large. The processing accuracy of the computer embroidery technology needs to be explored further.