Analysis of mechanically tunable frequency selective surfaces

The frequency selective surface (FSS) has been widely applied by means of its spatial frequency-filter characteristic, but it is always designed and used as a device with fixed frequency response. In order to tune the resonant frequency and switch the frequency channel, a scheme of mechanically tunable FSS is theoretically analyzed by using the method of Floquet's vector modes expansion and fields matching. A double-layer tunable FSS with dipole element can perform a dynamic range of resonant frequency covering whole X-band.