Towards a new antenna paradigm with waveform-selective metasurfaces

Nanowerk  February 28, 2023 Although various modulation schemes have been proposed to efficiently use the limited frequency resources by exploiting several degrees of freedom, antenna performance is essentially governed by frequency only. An international team of researchers (Japan, Italy, USA – UK) has proposed an antenna design concept based on metasurfaces to manipulate antenna performances in response to the time width of electromagnetic pulses. They numerically and experimentally showed that by using a proper set of spatially arranged metasurfaces loaded with lumped circuits, ordinary omnidirectional antennas could be reconfigured by the incident pulse width to exhibit directional characteristics varying over […]