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Engineering and optimization of wireless propagation channels will be one of the key elements of future communication technologies. Metasurfaces may offer a wide spectrum of functionalities for passive and tunable reflecting devices,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Sergei Kosulnikov , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Software-defined metasurfaces are electromagnetically ultra-thin, artificial components that can provide engineered and externally controllable functionalities. The control over these functionalities is enabled by the metasurface…

Dielectric metasurfaces are two-dimensional structures composed of nano-scatterers that manipulate phase and polarization of optical waves with subwavelength spatial resolution, enabling ultra-thin components for free-space optics. While…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-26 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

In this article, we report, for the first time, broadband multifunctional metasurfaces with more than four distinct functionalities. The constituent meta-atoms combine two different phase change materials, $\mathrm{VO_2}$ and…

We present Full-body WPT, wireless power networking around the human body using a meandered textile coil. Unlike traditional inductive systems that emit strong fields into the deep tissue inside the body, the meander coil enables localized…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ryo Takahashi , Takashi Sato , Wakako Yukita , Tomoyuki Yokota , Takao Someya , Yoshihiro Kawahara

As Internet of Things (IoT) devices proliferate, sustainable methods for powering them are becoming indispensable. The wireless provision of power enables battery-free operation and is crucial for complying with weight and size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kenneth M. Mayer , Laura Cottatellucci , Robert Schober

Optical prisms are made of glass and map temporal frequencies into spatial frequencies by decomposing incident white light into its constituent colors and refract them into different directions. Conventional prisms suffer from their…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

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

We demonstrate an integrated photonic circuit based on feed forward photonic meshes that can be programmed and reconfigured to perform arbitrary spectral filter functions. We investigate a subset of the available filter functions,…

Software-defined metamaterials (SDMs) represent a novel paradigm for real-time control of metamaterials. SDMs are envisioned to enable a variety of exciting applications in the domains such as smart textiles and sensing in challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 F. Lemic , S. Abadal , J. Famaey

Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to freely tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Over the past decade, tunable metasurfaces have come to the frontier in the…

We propose a low-cost reconfigurable metasurface transmitter to implement generalized polarization-space modulation (GPSM) that has been proposed for next-generation wireless communications. Unlike conventional multiple-input…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 John A. Hodge , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Quang M. Nguyen , Amir. I. Zaghloul

We analyze single and multilayered metamaterials by modeling each layer as a metasurface with effective surface electric and magnetic susceptibility derived through a thin film approximation. Employing a transfer matrix method, these…

In this article, a 2D plasmonic waveguide loaded with all dielectric anisotropic metamaterial, consisting of alternative layers of Si-SiO2, has been theoretically proposed and numerically analyzed. Main characteristics of waveguide i.e.…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-30 Abid Anjum Sifat , Ayed Al Sayem , M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb

Over the last two decades, spatial light modulators (SLMs) have revolutionised our ability to shape optical fields. They grant independent dynamic control over thousands of degrees-of-freedom within a single light beam. In this work we test…

We present a planar design of a metamaterial exhibiting electromagnetically induced transparency that is amenable to experimental verification in the microwave frequency band. The design is based on the coupling of a split-ring resonator…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-23 Philippe Tassin , Lei Zhang , Thomas Koschny , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

In this work, perfectly-matched metamaterials (PMMs) are described and combined with inverse design to realize broadband devices. PMMs are discretized metamaterials with anisotropic unit cells selected from a constrained design space,…

Index modulation (IM) is one of the candidate technologies for the upcoming sixth generation (6G) wireless communications networks. In this paper, we propose a space-time-modulated reconfigurable intelligent metasurface (RI-MTS) that is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 John A. Hodge , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Amir I. Zaghloul

Radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology to provide cost-effective and real-time power supplies to wireless devices. Although radiative WPT shares many similar characteristics with the extensively studied wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Yong Zeng , Bruno Clerckx , Rui Zhang

The paper presents a novel concept of a 3D structural metasurface with mechanically morphing capability that can be used as a transmit- or reflect-array to manipulate electromagnetic beams for applications in RF sensing and communications…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Aakash Bansal , William Whittow