A concept in frequency selective surface (FSS) technology that stems from B
abinet's principle, whereby a hybrid of two closely coupled FSS, a layer of
conducting elements and a layer of aperture elements are etched either sid
e of a dielectric substrate,acronymed as complementary FSS (CFSS) is introd
uced. There are two narrow passbands separated by a distinct null. The CFSS
creates electrically large elements from physically small ones to such an
extent that a conventional lambda /2 resonator in free space at the lower p
assband resonant frequency would be over three times longer than the dipole
length employed in the CFSS. This passband is highly stable for normal and
oblique TE and TM incidences, with less than 2% frequency shift. A full wa
ve modal analysis is developed and two integral equations (IEs), an electri
c field IE and a magnetic field IE, are derived. These IEs are coupled and
this renders them suitable for the solution of the CFSS problem. The interl
ayer dielectric region is critical to the location of the passbands as well
as the in-band loss. Results are presented for dipole and ring CFSS and co
mpared with measured data up to 40GHz.