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The reconfigurability of radio environments with programmable metasurfaces is considered a key feature of next-generation wireless networks. Identifying suitable metasurface configurations for desired wireless functionalities requires a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Jérôme Sol , Hugo Prod'homme , Luc Le Magoarou , Philipp del Hougne

The role of frequency is very important in electromagnetics since it may significantly change how a material interacts with an incident wave if the frequency spectrum varies. Here, we demonstrate a new kind of microwave window that has the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Hiroki Wakatsuchi , Jiang Long , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

Metasurfaces are envisaged to play a key role in next-generation wireless systems due to their powerful control over electromagnetic waves. The last decade has witnessed huge advances in this regard, shifting from static to programmable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Taqwa Saeed , Sergi Abadal , Christos Liaskos , Andreas Pitsillides , Hamidreza Taghvaee , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Marios Lestas , Eduard Alarcon

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

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

Wireless communication has become a standard solution to address ever-increasing demands for information transfer in our modern society. Conventional systems work in an active way in the sense that an active carrier signal is mandatorily…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hanting Zhao , Ya Shuang , Menglin Wei , Tie Jun Cui , Philipp del Hougne , Lianlin Li

We present for the first time an experimental demonstration on the energy allocation of commodity Wi-Fi signals in a programmable and inexpensive way. To that end, we design an electronically-programmable phase-binary coding metasurface,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Ya Shuang , Hanting Zhao , Menglin Wei , Haoyang Li , Lianlin Li

We present an effective method for transmitting electromagnetic waves as surface waves with a tape-based metasurface design. This design incorporates silver square patches periodically patterned on an adhesive tape substrate. Specifically,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 K. Suzuki , P. T. Dang , H. Homma , A. A. Fathnan , Y. Ashikaga , Y. Tsuchiya , S. Phang , H. Wakatsuchi

Metamaterials are artificially created media, which allow introducing additional degrees of freedom into electromagnetic design by controlling constitutive material parameters. Reconfigurable time-dependent metamaterials can further enlarge…

Space-time metamaterials are redefining wave engineering by enabling fully dynamic four-dimensional control of electromagnetic fields, allowing simultaneous manipulation of frequency, amplitude, momentum, and propagation direction. This…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Sajjad Taravati

Metasurfaces are planar structures that locally modify the polarization, phase, and amplitude of light in reflection or transmission, thus enabling lithographically patterned flat optical components with functionalities controlled by…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-08 Amir Arbabi , Yu Horie , Mahmood Bagheri , Andrei Faraon

Reconfigurable metasurfaces are potent platforms to control the propagation properties of light dynamically. Among different reconfiguration mechanisms available at optical frequencies, using non-volatile phase change materials is one of…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Luis Manuel Máñez-Espina , Ana Díaz-Rubio

Static metasurfaces have shown to be prominent compact structures for reciprocal and frequency-invariant transformation of electromagnetic waves in space. However, incorporating temporal variation to static metasurfaces would result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

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

Wireless communications and sensing have notably advanced thanks to the recent developments in both software and hardware. Although various modulation schemes have been proposed to efficiently use the limited frequency resources by…

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…

Wireless signals are integral to modern society, enabling both communication and increasingly, environmental sensing. While various propagation models exist, ranging from empirical methods to full-wave simulations, the phenomenon of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Anurag Pallaprolu , Winston Hurst , Yasamin Mostofi

Active tuning and switching of electromagnetic properties of materials is of great importance for controlling their interaction with electromagnetic waves. Superconductors are the only natural materials that exhibit diamagnetic switching at…

Wave phenomena can be artificially engineered by scattering from metasurfaces, which aids in the design of radio-frequency and optical devices for wireless communication, sensing, imaging, wireless power transfer and bio/medical…

Metamaterials represent one of the most vibrant fields of modern science and technology. They are generally dispersive structures in the direct and reciprocal space and time domains. Upon this consideration, I overview here a number of…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-16 Christophe Caloz