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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

Integrating multiple functionalities into a single metasurface is becoming of great interest for future intelligent communication systems. While such devices have been extensively explored for reciprocal functionalities, in this work, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Xuchen Wang , Ana Diaz-Rubio , Huanan Li , Sergei A. Tretyakov , Andrea Alu

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) are recently attracting considerable research interests due to their potential to enable low-cost, reconfigurable, and highly scalable antenna array architectures for next generation wireless systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

A varactor-based reconfigurable multifunctional metasurface capable of simultaneous beam steering, polarization conversion and phase offset is proposed in this paper. The unit cell is designed to naturally decompose the incident waves into…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Xiaozhen Yang , Erda Wen , Dinesh Bharadia , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

We investigate the use of a dynamic metasurface as the transmitting antenna for a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system. The dynamic metasurface consists of a one-dimensional microstrip waveguide with complementary electric…

Nonlocal metasurfaces are currently emerging as advanced tools for the manipulation of electromagnetic radiation, going beyond the widely explored Huygens metasurface concept. Nonetheless, the lack of an unified approach for their fast and…

Tunable metasurfaces are ultra-thin, artificial electromagnetic components that provide engineered and externally adjustable functionalities. The programmable metasurface, the HyperSurFace, concept consists in integrating controllers within…

Recently, a circuits-based approach for modeling the mutual coupling of reconfigurable surfaces, which comprise sub-wavelength spaced passive scattering elements coupled with electronic circuits for enabling the reconfiguration of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Marco Di Renzo , Vincenzo Galdi , Giuseppe Castaldi

The investigation of metasurface, which is of great current interest, has opened up new degrees of freedom to research metamaterials. In this paper, we propose an ultrathin acoustic metasurface consisting of a series of structurally simple…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Shilong Zhai , Changlin Ding , Huaijun Chen , Song Liu , Chunrong Luo , Xiaopeng Zhao

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) have become a popular topic in the wireless community as an effective yet simple means of exploiting spatial diversity. Due to the limitations of physically moving radiating elements, electronically…

We report the experimental demonstration of tunable asymmetric acoustic metasurfaces with extreme contrast, made by two decorated membrane resonators (DMRs) coupled via a sealed air column. The front side of the metasurface is impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Songwen Xiao , Suet Tao Tang , Z. Yang

Tunable active metasurfaces have become a major research focus in recent years. Among tuning mechanisms, all-optical coherent control stands out because it requires no material or geometric change, enabling ultrafast, low-energy,…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Zhiping He , Xu Fang , Juejun Hu

We demonstrate stable optical microcavities by counteracting the phase evolution of the cavity modes using an amorphous silicon metasurface as one of the two cavity end mirrors. Careful design allows us to limit the metasurface scattering…

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have made indispensable contributions to the development of modern optoelectronic technologies. However, arbitrary beam shaping of VCSELs within a compact system still remains inaccessible…

High Q phase gradient metasurfaces are becoming promising elements for revolutionizing light manipulation but near-field coupling typically forces a trade-off between quality factor and resolution. Here, we show a strategy for not just…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-02 Samuel Ameyaw , Lin Lin , Bo Zhao , Hamish Carr Delgado , Mark Lawrence

Active metasurfaces, compact platforms for nanoscale light manipulation, are transforming technologies like holography, quantum cryptography, and optical computing. Despite their versatility, tunability in metasurfaces has mainly relied on…

In this article, we develop analytical-numerical models for reconfigurable reflecting metasurfaces formed by chessboard-patterned arrays of metallic patches. These patch arrays are loaded with varactor diodes in order to enable surface…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Abdelghafour Abraray , Diogo Nunes , Stanislav Maslovski

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

Recent advances in nonlocal metasurfaces have enabled unprecedented success in shaping the wavefront of light with spectral selectivity, offering new solutions for many emerging nanophotonics applications. The ability to tune both the…

This paper presents the analysis of metasurfaces, here called reconfigurable intelligent surface. The analysis is performed by numerical simulations that implement the finite-difference time-domain method. The metasurface has been modeled…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Emanuel Colella , Luca Bastianelli , Valter Mariani Primiani , Franco Moglie