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Programmable metasurfaces incorporating with tunable materials or components are emerging as an attractive option to realize reconfigurable manipulations of electromagnetic (EM) behaviors in real-time. Many efforts have been devoted to the realization of active EM manipulations of the metasurface and significant progress has been achieved, showing their unprecedented ability to arbitrarily manipulate wavefronts in dynamic functions. However, most of the existing multi-beam metasurfaces are based on passive building blocks, only possessing one or a few functions, which cannot provide tunable and independent multi-beam control, thus limiting their further uses in wireless communications. Hence, a 1-bit coding metasurface with high-efficiency, programmable, and independent multi-beam control is proposed in this paper, providing dynamic EM responses with real-time reconfigurability, and controlled by external digital circuits through direct current (DC) bias networks. Specifically, the meta-atom loaded with PIN diodes is employed to achieve independently tunable phase characteristics, thus complex EM functions can be manipulated by redistributing the spatial phases of the metasurface. Symmetric/asymmetric independent dual- and multi-beam manipulations are analyzed theoretically and simulated by EM software. Then as an experimental verification, a metasurface consisting of 14 × 14 meta-atoms is fabricated and tested in a standard microwave anechoic chamber, and the measured results accord well with the simulations. The proposed metasurface has promising ability to generate the arbitrary and independent multi-beams, which may largely enhance the information capacity of the metasurfaces, offering untapped potentials in wireless communication systems.
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Keywords:
- coding metasurface /
- programmable /
- dual-beam /
- independent control
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图 1 (a) 超构表面单元结构示意图; (b)单元顶层金属结构示意图; (c)单元中间层金属结构示意图; (d)单元底层金属结构示意图; (e) 单元结构反射相位曲线; (f) 单元结构反射幅度曲线
Figure 1. (a) Schematic of the coding metasurface elements; (b) schematic of the top-layer of metal structure; (c) schematic of the middle-layer of metal structure; (d) schematic of the bottom-layer of metal structure; (e) reflection phases of the elements; (f) reflection amplitudes of the elements.
图 2 (a) 超构表面波束调控示意图; (b) 双波束(30º, 0º)和(20º, 180º)离散相位分布图; (c) 双波束(30º, 0º)和(20º, 180º)u-v平面归一化远场方向图(
$ u=\mathrm{sin}\theta \mathrm{cos}\phi , v=\mathrm{sin}\theta \mathrm{sin}\phi $ )Figure 2. (a) Schematic of the metasurface for three-dimension beam-control; (b) the calculated discretized phase distributions for the radiation directions of (30º, 0º) and (20º, 180º); (c) the calculated normalized radiation patterns in uv-plane (
$ u=\mathrm{sin}\theta \mathrm{cos}\phi $ ,$ v=\mathrm{sin}\theta \mathrm{sin}\phi $ ).图 3 (a) 超构表面在xoz-平面实现对称双波束扫描功能示意图; (b) 超构表面在yoz-平面实现对称双波束扫描功能示意图; (c) 超构表面在xoz-平面上的远场仿真结果; (d) 超构表面在yoz-平面上的远场仿真结果
Figure 3. (a) Schematic of the symmetric-beam scanning of the metasurface in xoz-plane; (b) schematic of the symmetric-beam scanning of the metasurface in yoz-plane; (c) the simulated radiation patterns of the metasurface in xoz-plane; (d) the simulated radiation patterns of the metasurface in yoz-plane.
图 4 超构表面非对称波束设计的远场仿真结果图. 波束辐射方向 (θ, φ)依次为 (a) (20º, 0º), (20º, 90º); (b) (19º, 180º), (30º, 270º); (c) (30º, 0º), (20º, 180º); (d) (0º, 0º), (11º, 0º); (e) (19º, 180º), (9º, 180º), (11º, 0º); (f) (28º, 180º), (5º, 0º), (32º, 0º)
Figure 4. The simulated three-dimension radiation patterns of asymmetric-beam control of the metasurface. The radiation angles (θ, φ) are: (a) (20º, 0º), (20º, 90º); (b) (19º, 180º), (30º, 270º); (c) (30º, 0º), (20º, 180º); (d) (0º, 0º), (10º, 0º); (e) (19º, 180º), (9º, 180º), (11º, 0º); (f) (28º, 180º), (5º, 0º), (32º, 0º), respectively.
图 5 (a) 超构表面样品图; (b)−(i) 超构表面独立波束设计远场测试结果图. 超构表面实现对称双波束扫描功能的测试结果图, 分别在 (b) xoz-平面与(c) yoz-平面; 超构表面非对称独立波束设计的测试结果图, 波束辐射方向 (θ, φ)依次为 (d) (20º, 0º), (20º, 90º); (e) (19º, 180º), (30º, 270º); (f) (30º, 0º), (20º, 180º); (g) (0º, 0º), (11º, 0º); (h) (19º, 180º), (9º, 180º), (11º, 0º); (i) (28º, 180º), (5º, 0º), (32º, 0º)
Figure 5. (a) Photograph of the fabricated metasurface; (b)−(i) the measurement results of the metasurface. measurement results of symmetric-beam scanning in (b) xoz-plane and (c) yoz-plane; measurement results of asymmetric-beam control of the metasurface, and the radiation angles (θ, φ) are (d) (20º, 0º), (20º, 90º); (e) (19º, 180º), (30º, 270º); (f) (30º, 0º), (20º, 180º); (g) (0º, 0º), (11º, 0º); (h) (19º, 180º), (9º, 180º), (11º, 0º); (i) (28º, 180º), (5º, 0º), (32º, 0º), respectively.
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[1] Yu N F, Genevet P, Kats M A, Aieta F, Tetienne J P, Capasso F, Gaburro Z 2011 Science 334 333
Google Scholar
[2] Ding G W, Chen K, Luo X Y, Zhao J M, Jiang T, Feng Y J 2019 Phys. Rev. Appl. 11 044043
Google Scholar
[3] Sun S, Yang K Y, Wang C M, Juan T K, Chen W T, Liao C Y, He Q, Xiao S, Kung W T, Guo G Y, Zhou L, Tsai D P 2012 Nano Lett. 12 6223
Google Scholar
[4] Liu S, Cui T J, Xu Q, Bao D, Du L, Wan X, Tang W X, Ouyang C, Zhou X Y, Yuan H, Ma H F, Jiang W X, Han J, Zhang W, Cheng Q 2016 Light: Sci. Appl. 5 e16076
Google Scholar
[5] Yan L, Zhu W, Karim M F, Cai H, Gu A Y, Shen Z, Chong P H J, Tsai D P, Kwong D L, Qiu C W, Liu A Q 2018 Adv. Opt. Mater. 6 1800728
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[6] Chen K, Cui L, Feng Y, Zhao J, Jiang T, Zhu B 2017 Opt. Express 25 5571
Google Scholar
[7] Chen K, Feng Y, Yang Z, Cui L, Zhao J, Zhu B, Jiang T 2016 Sci. Rep. 6 35968
Google Scholar
[8] Chen K, Feng Y, Monticone F, Zhao J, Zhu B, Jiang T, Zhang L, Kim Y, Ding X, Zhang S, Alu A, Qiu C W 2017 Adv. Mater. 29 1606422
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[9] Chen W T, Yang K Y, Wang C M, Huang Y W, Sun G, Chiang I D, Liao C Y, Hsu W L, Lin H T, Sun S, Zhou L, Liu A Q, Tsai D P 2014 Nano Lett. 14 225
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[10] Yang H H, Yang F, Cao X Y, Xu S H, Gao J, Chen X B, Li T 2017 IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 65 6
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[11] Luo X Y, Guo W L, Chen K, Zhao J M, Jiang T, Liu Y, Feng Y J 2021 IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 69 6
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Google Scholar
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Li X N, Zhou L, Zhao G-Z 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 238101
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Google Scholar
Zhang Y, Feng Y J, Jiang T, Cao J, Zhao J M, Zhu B 2017 Acta Phys. Sin. 66 204101
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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