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This paper presents, for the first time, the concept of polarforming for wireless communications. Polarforming refers to a novel technique that enables the polarization of an antenna to shape into a desired polarization state for aligning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Zijian Zhou , Jingze Ding , Chenbo Wang , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

Spatial modulation (SM) transmits additional information bits by the selection of antennas. Generalized spatial modulation (GSM), as an advanced type of SM, can be divided into diversity and multiplexing (MUX) schemes according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Hanjiang Hong , De Mi , Ruiqi Liu , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang , Yi-yan Wu

Space-time modulated metasurfaces (STMMs) are a newly investigated technology for next 6G generation wireless communication networks. An STMM augments the spatial phase function with a time-varying one across the elements, allowing for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Umberto Spagnolini

Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) uses $N$ antenna elements but fewer radio frequency (RF) chains ($R$) at the transmitter. Spatial modulation and spatial multiplexing are special cases of GSM with $R=1$ and $R=N$, respectively. In GSM,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-15 T. Lakshmi Narasimhan , A. Chockalingam

For the upcoming 6G wireless networks, a new wave of applications and services will demand ultra-high data rates and reliability. To this end, future wireless systems are expected to pave the way for entirely new fundamental air interface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Bolin Wu , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Zhongwei Si , Ping Zhang , Sen Wang , Yifei Yuan , Chih-Lin I

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for shaping the propagation environment, it consists of a single-layer structure within inherent limitations regarding the number of beam steering patterns. Based…

Recent advancement in next generation reconfigurable antenna and fluid antenna technology has influenced the wireless system with polarization reconfigurable (PR) channels to attract significant attention for promoting beneficial channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Seungcheol Oh , Han Han , Joongheon Kim , Sean Kwon

Metasurfaces offer significant potential to control far-field light propagation through the engineering of amplitude, polarization, and phase at an interface. We report here phase modulation of an electronically reconfigurable metasurface…

This paper proposes a bidirectional multibeam hybrid transmitarray (HTA) employing a transmission polarization-rotating metasurface (TPRM). A novel configuration is introduced to facilitate bidirectional beam scanning by combining the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Fan Qin , Yifei Liu , Chao Gu , Linfeng Zeng , Wenchi Cheng , Hailin Zhang , Steven Gao

Metasurfaces have offered unprecedented control over electromagnetic (EM) waves across a wide range of frequency spectrum by manipulating their phase, amplitude, and polarization at subwavelength scales. Full wavefront control using…

In this work, we theoretically and experimentally study the conversion from a circularly polarized plane electromagnetic wave into a linearly polarized transmitted one using anisotropic self-complementary metasurfaces. For this purpose, a…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new paradigm that has great potential to achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient information modulation for wireless transmission, by the ability to change the reflection coefficients of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Wankai Tang , Jun Yan Dai , Ming Zheng Chen , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiao Li , Xinsheng Zhao , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

Metasurfaces with tunable spatial phase functions could benefit numerous applications. Currently, most approaches to tuning rely on mechanical stretching which cannot control phase locally, or by modulating the refractive index to exploit…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-11 Shane Colburn , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar , David R. Smith

Transmission through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which control the reflection/scattering characteristics of incident waves in a deliberate manner to enhance the signal quality at the receiver, appears as a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Ertugrul Basar

Transmitting data using the phases on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution for future energy-efficient communication systems. Recent work showed that a virtual phased massive multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Wai-Yiu Keung , Hei Victor Cheng , Wing-Kin Ma

Programmable metasurfaces promise a great potential to construct low-cost phased array systems due to the capability of elaborate modulation over electromagnetic (EM) waves. However, they are in either reflective or transmissive mode, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Xudong Bai , Longpan Wang , Yuhua Chen , Xilong Lu , Fuli Zhang , Jingfeng Chen , Wen Chen , He-Xiu Xu

A novel wireless transmission scheme, as named the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted received adaptive spatial modulation (RASM) scheme, is proposed in this paper. In this scheme, the adaptive spatial modulation (ASM)-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chaorong Zhang , Hui Xu , Benjamin K. Ng , Chan-Tong Lam , Ke Wang

A multiband hybrid metasurface supporting multiple gap-surface plasmon (GSP) and localized surface plasmon (LSP) modes is presented. The structure adopts a metal-dielectric-metal configuration consisting of an aluminum bottom layer, a…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Partha Mondal , Omar Alkhazragi , Boon S. Ooi , Hakan Bagci

Electrically tunable metasurfaces that control the amplitude and phase of light through biasing of nanoscale antennas present a route to compact, sub-micron thick modulator devices. However, most platforms face limitations in bandwidth,…