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This paper presents a new L-shape reflector to enhance the cross-polarization radar cross section (RCS). Cross-polarization component can increase the jamming effect against the polarization radars. Such L-shape reflectors can also be used as radar tags in cars, books and so on for radar target detection. By bending the structure of traditional dipole reflector to L shape, the direction of surface current is changed, which produces the cross-polarization component. We have simulated L-shape reflector with different lengths of branches in X-band. Compared with the scattering characteristics of traditional dipole reflector, the linear depolarization ratio (LDR vh ) of the L-shape reflector can be easily controlled by changing the length of two branches.
Inspec keywords: jamming; radar detection; radar cross-sections; object detection
Subjects: Radar equipment, systems and applications; Signal detection