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A new planar wideband chessboard structure is designed to reduce the radar cross-section (RCS) of an object. This proposed chessboard configuration is composed of two different artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) tiles. One of these tiles is formed by saltire arrow unit cells, whereas the other one is formed by four E-shaped ones. A 180° ± 30° phase difference between these tiles achieved by precise design of the AMC unit cells of more than 9.4–23.28 GHz (85%) reduces the RCS by more than 10 dB. The fabricated board results show very good agreement with the simulated ones, which verify the ability and capability of the proposed structure.
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