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Metasurfaces (MSs) have recently become an efficient solution for controlling a spatial field distribution according to the demand of an electromagnetic device. In particular, anomalous reflectors based on impenetrable MSs can be realized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Vyacheslav Ivliev , Stanislav Glybovski

This paper considers a multi-antenna multicast system with programmable metasurface (PMS) based transmitter. Taking into account of the finite-resolution phase shifts of PMSs, a novel beam training approach is proposed, which achieves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yongxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

Recent advancements in smart radio environment technologies aim to enhance wireless network performance through the use of low-cost electromagnetic (EM) devices. Among these, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have garnered attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Silvia Palmucci , Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

Metasurfaces constitute effective media for manipulating and transforming impinging EM waves. Related studies have explored a series of impactful MS capabilities and applications in sectors such as wireless communications, medical imaging…

Photonic devices rarely provide both elaborate spatial control and sharp spectral control over an incoming wavefront. In optical metasurfaces, for example, the localized modes of individual meta-units govern the wavefront shape over a broad…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Andrea Alù , Nanfang Yu

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

Electromagnetic metasurfaces can be characterized as intelligent if they are able to perform multiple tunable functions, with the desired response being controlled by a computer influencing the individual electromagnetic properties of each…

Metasurfaces can manipulate the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves, offering applications ranging from antenna design and cloaking to imaging and communication. Additionally, temporal, and non-linear metasurfaces have the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Pouria Sanjari , Firooz Aflatouni

In this paper we present the theoretical considerations and the design evolution of a proof-of-concept reconfigurable metasurface, primarily used as a tunable microwave absorber, but also as a wavefront manipulation and polarization…

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art downlink communication transceiver design for transmissive reconfigurable metasurface (RMS)-enabled simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) networks. Specifically, a feed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Ziheng Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Huanqing Cao , Jun Li

Achieving an electrically tunable phased array optical antenna surface has been a principal challenge in the field of metasurfaces. In this letter, we demonstrate a device platform for achieving reconfigurable control over the resonant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Prasad P Iyer , Mihir Pendharkar , Chris J. Palmstrøm , Jon A. Schuller

This paper presents an exact solution for a perfect conversion of a TM-polarized surface wave (SW) into a TM-polarized leaky-wave (LW) using a reciprocal and lossless penetrable metasurface (MTS) characterized by a scalar sheet impedance,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Svetlana Tcvetkova , Enrica Martini , Sergei Tretyakov , Stefano Maci

Huygens' metasurfaces have demonstrated the ability to tailor electromagnetic wavefronts with passive low-profile structures. The fundamental constraint enabling passive and ideally lossless solutions is the conservation of the normal real…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

Metasurface (MTS) comprises an array of metaatoms, each reflecting and inducing a phase shift into the incident wireless signal. We seek the optimal combination of phase shifts across all the meta-atoms to maximize the channel strength from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenhai Lai , Kaiming Shen , Zhi-Quan Luo

For passive, lossless impenetrable metasurfaces, a design technique for arbitrary beam control of receiving, guiding, and launching is presented. Arbitrary control is enabled by a custom surface wave in an orthogonal polarization such that…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Do-Hoon Kwon , Sergei A. Tretyakov

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) aided terahertz (THz) communication system is proposed. A novel power consumption model is proposed that depends on the type and resolution of the STARS elements. The spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces offer new opportunities in developing high performance terahertz emitters and detectors beyond the limitations of conventional nonlinear materials. However, simple meta-atoms for second-order…

Metasurface-based fluid antenna systems (FASs) have been recently proposed as an inexpensive, scalable and practical alternative implementation for the fluid-antenna concept. This work thoroughly evaluates the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , F. Javier López-Martínez , David Morales-Jiménez

Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave-front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarisation-conversion…