A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves
Abstract Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently control all electromagnetics (EM) waves’ properties, including amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization, and mome...
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| author | Geng-Bo Wu Jun Yan Dai Kam Man Shum Ka Fai Chan Qiang Cheng Tie Jun Cui Chi Hou Chan |
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| description | Abstract Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently control all electromagnetics (EM) waves’ properties, including amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization, and momentum, with high integrability and programmability, are challenging and have not been successfully attempted. Here, we propose and demonstrate a microwave universal metasurface antenna (UMA) capable of dynamically, simultaneously, independently, and precisely manipulating all the constitutive properties of EM waves in a software-defined manner. Our UMA further facilitates the spatial- and time-varying wave properties, leading to more complicated waveform generation, beamforming, and direct information manipulations. In particular, the UMA can directly generate the modulated waveforms carrying digital information that can fundamentally simplify the architecture of information transmitter systems. The proposed UMA with unparalleled EM wave and information manipulation capabilities will spark a surge of applications from next-generation wireless systems, cognitive sensing, and imaging to quantum optics and quantum information science. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89ba626ec2ea4df6be1b1fda5994781b2023-11-20T09:56:52ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232023-08-0114111410.1038/s41467-023-40717-9A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic wavesGeng-Bo Wu0Jun Yan Dai1Kam Man Shum2Ka Fai Chan3Qiang Cheng4Tie Jun Cui5Chi Hou Chan6State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong KongState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast UniversityState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong KongState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong KongState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast UniversityState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast UniversityState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong KongAbstract Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently control all electromagnetics (EM) waves’ properties, including amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization, and momentum, with high integrability and programmability, are challenging and have not been successfully attempted. Here, we propose and demonstrate a microwave universal metasurface antenna (UMA) capable of dynamically, simultaneously, independently, and precisely manipulating all the constitutive properties of EM waves in a software-defined manner. Our UMA further facilitates the spatial- and time-varying wave properties, leading to more complicated waveform generation, beamforming, and direct information manipulations. In particular, the UMA can directly generate the modulated waveforms carrying digital information that can fundamentally simplify the architecture of information transmitter systems. The proposed UMA with unparalleled EM wave and information manipulation capabilities will spark a surge of applications from next-generation wireless systems, cognitive sensing, and imaging to quantum optics and quantum information science.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40717-9 |
| spellingShingle | Geng-Bo Wu Jun Yan Dai Kam Man Shum Ka Fai Chan Qiang Cheng Tie Jun Cui Chi Hou Chan A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves Nature Communications |
| title | A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| title_full | A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| title_fullStr | A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| title_full_unstemmed | A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| title_short | A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| title_sort | universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40717-9 |
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