Design of soft and hard composite patterns for electromagnetic scattering controlling at both normal and grazing incidence

In this paper, the soft and hard composite patterns for electromagnetic scattering control at both normal and grazing incident angle is proposed. The soft and hard parts are composed of dielectric substrate sandwiched by transverse or longitude metal strips with metal via and the perfect electrical conductor ground, and these two parts are combined at a certain inclination angled to form the soft and hard composite patterns. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed composite patterns have the monostatic radar cross‐section (RCS) reduction of 20.79 and 18.36 dB at 11.24 GHz under normal incidence for transverse electric polarization and transverse magnetic polarization, respectively. Also, this structure achieves 2.78 and 5.43 dB monostatic RCS reduction under grazing incidence from 60° to 90°. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental ones. The physical mechanisms of the proposed composite patterns can be elucidated by the equivalent impedance method based on its near‐field distribution. The proposed composite patterns can be functionalized by changing the electromagnetic parameters of the soft and hard surfaces, which has a great potential to be used as the traveling wave antenna enclosure for scattering control.