Abstract
Chiral wave-absorbing metamaterials can enhance microwave attenuation performance by converting linearly polarized waves into circularly polarized waves. However, the mechanism for transforming incident waves into vortex waves to overcome the angular momentum mismatch to satisfy broadband stealth is unclear. This work proposes a chiral-assisted geometrically phase (CAGP) metasurfaces that utilizes the Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase concept to convert incident plane waves into reflected vortex waves. Such metamaterials demonstrate adaptive transformation capabilities under the incidence of electromagnetic (EM) waves with multi-polarization modes, providing an effective absorption bandwidth (≥90 % absorptivity, reflection loss ≤ −10 dB) reaches 6.92 GHz (9.16–16.08 GHz) at a thickness of 2.48 mm. Based on an orbital angular momentum (OAM) phase and amplitude analysis, the mode purity of the generated vortex waves is discussed in detail, and the mechanisms are analyzed and verified by simulation models to confirm their effectiveness and practicability. Additionally, the metamaterials exhibit excellent radar cross-section (RCS) reduction properties and stable polarization insensitivity properties. In short, this work presents a tailorable metasurface to manipulate the OAM spectrum and achieve broadband microwave attenuation, which holds great potential for various applications in chiral wave-absorbing metamaterials.
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