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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are programmable metasurfaces that can adaptively steer received electromagnetic energy in desired directions by employing controllable phase shifting cells. Among other uses, an RIS can modify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Manipulation of radiation is required for enabling a span of electromagnetic applications. Since properties of antennas and scatterers are very sensitive to a surrounding environment, macroscopic artificially created materials are good…

Programmable, intelligent surfaces can manipulate electromagnetic waves impinging upon them, producing arbitrarily shaped reflection, refraction and diffraction, to the benefit of wireless users. Moreover, in their recent form of…

The IEEE Signal Processing Society is proud to announce the eighth edition of the Signal Processing Cup: an exciting challenge to control a wireless propagation environment using an intelligent reflecting surface. An intelligent reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Emil Björnson

Metasurfaces, or Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), have emerged as a transformative technology for next-generation wireless systems, enabling digitally controlled manipulation of electromagnetic wave propagation. By turning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Swarun Kumar

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

As the electromagnetic spectrum becomes more congested and the environments in which we need to operate become more complicated, control over the environment itself becomes necessary to ensure the integrity of wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Benjamin W. Frazier , Steven M. Anlage

Manipulation of acoustic wavefronts by thin and planar devices, known as metasurfaces, has been extensively studied, in view of many important applications. Reflective and refractive metasurfaces are designed using the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

With growing security threats to the evolving wireless systems, protecting user privacy becomes progressively challenging. Even if the transmitted information is encrypted and the potential wiretap channel is physically limited (e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xiao Lu , Ekram Hossain , Tania Shafique , Shaohan Feng , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…

The future 6G of wireless communication networks will have to meet multiple requirements in increasingly demanding levels, either individually or in combinations in small groups. This trend has spurred recent research activities on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 George C. Alexandropoulos , Geoffroy Lerosey , Merouane Debbah , Mathias Fink

As terahertz (THz) frequencies emerge as promising candidates for next-generation wireless networks, accurate characterization of propagation mechanisms in indoor/outdoor environments becomes essential for system design and performance…

Many emerging technologies, such as ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO), terahertz (THz) communications are under active discussion as promising technologies to support the extremely high access rate and superior network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Wankai Tang , Ming Zheng Chen , Jun Yan Dai , Yong Zeng , Xinsheng Zhao , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

Metasurfaces have been investigated and its numerous exotic functionalities and the potentials to arbitrarily control of the electromagnetic fields have been extensively explored. However, only limited types of metasurface have finally…

Millimeter-wave technologies are essential for future high-speed wireless communications. However, a fundamental challenge remains in the form of severe free-space path loss, where the power density decreases inversely with the square of…

Electromagnetic metasurfaces enable the advanced control of surface-wave propagation by spatially tailoring the local surface reactance. Interestingly, tailoring the surface resistance distribution in space provides new, largely unexplored…

Metasurfaces have attracted significant research interest owing to their unprecedented control over the spatial distributions of electromagnetic fields. Herein we propose the concept of metasurface tessellation to achieve reconfigurable…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Xiangdong Kong , Chuanning Niu , Jia Zhao , Zuojia Wang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology that changes how wireless networks are perceived, therefore its potential benefits and applications are currently under intense research and investigation. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Placido Mursia , Sendy Phang , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Gabriele Gradoni , Marco Di Renzo

Metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness have exhibited unconventional phenomena in ways that could not be mimicked by traditional materials. Here we report the analytical design and experimental realizations of acoustic metasurface with…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-30 Yong Li , Xue Jiang , Rui-qi Li , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jian-chun Cheng

A recently proposed class of materials, called software-defined metamaterials, can change their electromagnetic behavior on demand, utilizing a nanonetwork embedded in their structure. The present work focuses on 2D metamaterials, known as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Angeliki Tsioliaridou , Christos Liaskos , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis