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A fundamental challenge in physics is controlling the propagation of waves in disordered media despite strong scattering from inhomogeneities. Spatial light modulators enable one to synthesize (shape) the incident wavefront, optimizing the…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-15 Chia Wei Hsu , Seng Fatt Liew , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , A. Douglas Stone

The reconfigurable intelligent surface is a promising technology for the manipulation and control of wireless electromagnetic signals. In particular, it has the potential to provide significant performance improvements for wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Sergi Abadal , Gabriele Gradoni , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

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

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…

In this paper, we put forth the idea of metaprism, a passive and non-reconfigurable metasurface acting as a metamirror with frequency-dependent reflecting properties within the signal bandwidth. We show that, with an appropriate design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Davide Dardari , Devis Massari

Antenna array architectures based on programmable metasurfaces are emerging as a promising solution for scalable implementations of the eXtremely Large Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (XL-MIMO) systems paradigm, envisioned for 6-th…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Recently, complex wavefront engineering with disordered media has demonstrated optical manipulation capabilities beyond those of conventional optics. These capabilities include extended volume, aberration-free focusing and subwavelength…

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

Molding the flow of light at the nanoscale has been a grand challenge of nanophotonics for decades. It is now widely recognized that metasurfaces represent a chip-scale nanophotonics array technology capable of comprehensively controlling…

Metasurfaces have provided a novel and promising platform for the realization of compact and large-scale optical devices. The conventional metasurface design approach assumes periodic boundary conditions for each element, which is…

One of the most promising metasurface architectures for the microwave and terahertz frequency ranges consists of three patterned metallic layers separated by dielectrics. Such metasurfaces are well suited to planar fabrication techniques…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andreas E. Olk , David A. Powell

The sensitivity of transmission to the input wavefront is a hallmark feature of complex media and the basis for wavefront shaping techniques. Yet, intriguing special cases exist in which the output wavefront is "frozen" (agnostic to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-12 Philipp del Hougne

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…

A technique for the design of conformal metasurfaces with two spatially disconnected space wave ports connected by a surface wave is presented. The passive and lossless metasurface absorbs the incident plane wave at port 1, converts it…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Jordan Budhu

Using RF signals for wireless sensing has gained increasing attention. However, due to the unwanted multi-path fading in uncontrollable radio environments, the accuracy of RF sensing is limited. Instead of passively adapting to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

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…

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces offer unique opportunities for wave manipulation, however, their practical realization is often constrained by the requirement for in-plane spatial modulation, which necessitates a large number of time-varying…

The dielectric layers surrounding a metasurface have a large impact on its frequency and angular response. The notion of effective permittivity captures this dependence by suggesting that a layered dielectric environment will perturb…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Christopher T. Howard , William D. Hunt , Kenneth W. Allen

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are a promising embodiment of next-generation reconfigurable antenna technology to realize base stations and access points with reduced cost and power consumption. A DMA is a thin structure patterned on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Hugo Prod'homme , Jean Tapie , Luc Le Magoarou , Philipp del Hougne

Metamaterials can enable peculiar static and dynamic behavior (such as negative effective mass density, dynamical stiffness, and Poisson's ratio) due to their geometry rather than their chemical composition. The geometry of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-03 Audrey A. Watkins , Austin Eichelberg , Osama R. Bilal