Pulse-driven self-reconfigurable meta-antennas.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 Feb 2023
06 Feb 2023
Historique:
received:
03
03
2022
accepted:
24
01
2023
entrez:
6
2
2023
pubmed:
7
2
2023
medline:
7
2
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Wireless communications and sensing have notably advanced thanks to the recent developments in both software and hardware. 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. Here, we present an antenna design concept based on metasurfaces to manipulate antenna performances in response to the time width of electromagnetic pulses. We numerically and experimentally show that by using a proper set of spatially arranged metasurfaces loaded with lumped circuits, ordinary omnidirectional antennas can be reconfigured by the incident pulse width to exhibit directional characteristics varying over hundreds of milliseconds or billions of cycles, far beyond conventional performance. We demonstrate that the proposed concept can be applied for sensing, selective reception under simultaneous incidence and mutual communications as the first step to expand existing frequency resources based on pulse width.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36746941
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36342-1
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-36342-1
pmc: PMC9902461
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
633Subventions
Organisme : MEXT | JST | Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO)
ID : JPMJPR193A
Organisme : MEXT | JST | Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO)
ID : JPMJPR193A
Organisme : MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
ID : 17KK0114
Organisme : MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
ID : 21H01324
Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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