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In this paper, an eight-quadrant corner reflector equipped with an electronically controlled miniaturized active frequency-selective surface (MAFSS) for X band is proposed to obtain better radar characteristics controllability and polarization adaptability. The scattering characteristics of the new eight-quadrant corner reflector for different switchable scattering states (penetration\/reflection), frequency and polarization are simulated and analyzed. Results show that the RCS modulation depth, which is jointly affected by the electromagnetic wave frequency and incident directions, can be maintained above 10 dB in the majority of directions, and even larger than 30 dB at the resonant frequency. 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