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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

We present the concept and electromagnetic aspects of HyperSurFaces (HSFs), artificial, ultrathin structures with software controlled electromagnetic properties. The HSFs key unit is the metasurface, a plane with designed subwavelength…

We introduce the concept of smart radio environments, currently intensely studied for wireless communication in metasurface-programmable meter-scaled environments (e.g., inside rooms), on the chip scale. Wireless networks-on-chips (WNoCs)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 Mohammadreza F. Imani , Sergi Abadal , Philipp del Hougne

Due to the uncontrolled and complex real-life radio propagation environments, Claude Shannon's information theory of communications describes fundamental limits to state-of-the-art 5G radio access network (RAN) capacity, with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yangyishi Zhang , Khethiwe Mhlope , Aaron Walker , Fraser Burton

Recent advances in gradient metasurfaces have shown that only by locally controlling the bianisotropic response of the constituent cells can one ensure full control of refraction, i.e., arbitrarily modify the direction of the incident waves…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Ana Diaz-Rubio , Sergei Tretyakov , Steven Cummer

Metasurfaces can be designed to achieve prescribed functionality. Careful meta-atom design and arrangement achieve homogeneous and inhomogeneous layouts that can enable exceptional capabilities to manipulate incident waves. Inherently, the…

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

The increasing demand for communication is degrading the electromagnetic (EM) transmission environment due to severe EM interference, significantly reducing the efficiency of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Metasurfaces, a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless communications, offering energy-efficient control of electromagnetic (EM) waves. While conventional RIS models based on phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ayane Lebeta Goshu , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Marco Di Renzo , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Programmable wireless environments enable the software-defined propagation of waves within them, yielding exceptional performance potential. Several building-block technologies have been implemented and evaluated at the physical layer. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Christos Liaskos , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Shuai Nie , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Active development is taking place in reconfigurable and static metasurfaces that control and optimize reflections. However, existing designs typically only optimize reflections from the metasurface panels, neglecting interference with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 S. Kosulnikov , F. S. Cuesta , X. Wang , S. A. Tretyakov

Intelligent metasurfaces have demonstrated great promise in revolutionizing wireless communications. One notable example is the two-dimensional (2D) programmable metasurface, which is also known as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiancheng An , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui , Zhi Ning Chen , Chau Yuen

HyperSurfaces (HSFs) are devices whose electromagnetic (EM) behavior is software-driven, i.e., it can be defined programmatically. The key components of this emerging technology are the metasurfaces, artificial layered materials whose EM…

Electromagnetic environments are becoming increasingly complex and congested, creating a growing challenge for systems that rely on electromagnetic waves for communication, sensing, or imaging, particularly in reverberating environments.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Benjamin W. Frazier , Thomas M. Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage , Edward Ott

Metasurfaces are a family of novel wavefront shaping devices with planar profile and subwavelength thickness. Acoustic metasurfaces with ultralow profile yet extraordinary wave manipulating properties would be highly desirable for improving…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Yangbo Xie , Wenqi Wang , Huanyang Chen , Adam Konneker , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Steven A. Cummer

The recent development of metasurfaces has motivated their potential use for improving the performance of wireless communication networks by manipulating the propagation environment through nearly-passive sub-wavelength scattering elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongliang Zhang , Shuhao Zeng , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Future wireless networks are expected to constitute a distributed intelligent wireless communications, sensing, and computing platform, which will have the challenging requirement of interconnecting the physical and digital worlds in a…

Transmission of a normally incident plane wave through a metasurface with bicontrollable subwavelength scattering elements was simulated using a commercial software. Some pixels comprising the $H-shaped scattering elements were made of a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Francesco Chiadini , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

Non-uniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allow…