Yang, F., Tan, T. C., Prakash, S., Kumar, A., Ariando, A., Singh, R., Wang, N., & Pitchappa, P. (2023). Reconfigurable Wide‐Angle Beam‐Steering Terahertz Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide. Advanced Optical Materials, 12(9). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202302047
Abstract:
AbstractThe sixth generation (6G) wireless network is envisioned to provide faster and more reliable communication by utilizing electromagnetic waves in the terahertz spectrum. However, terahertz waves suffer from high propagation loss and, hence, wavefront manipulation solutions to focus and redirect terahertz waves are of paramount importance. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one such promising dynamic wavefront engineering solution proposed for 6G networks, but the technological realization of 6G (>100 GHz) RIS is still largely lacking. Here, spatially‐selective vanadium dioxide (VO2) patches incorporating coding metasurfaces for dynamic beam steering of terahertz waves are presented. The reversible and abrupt insulator‐to‐metal phase transition property of VO2 is exploited to achieve a reconfigurable transmission angle for the normal incident terahertz wave. By designing metasurfaces with specific linear phase gradients and designer phase sequencing, electrically switchable beam steering is achieved from co‐polarized 0° (normal transmission) in the OFF state to cross‐polarized 0° (control), 11°, 23°, 36°, and 52° in the ON state at 0.6 THz. Scaling up the proposed concept to achieve individual control of each active element (VO2) within the metasurface will enable a complete 6G RIS solution for full 3D terahertz beam manipulation to support the future THz wireless communication networks.
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This research / project is supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research - MTC Programmatic Grant
Grant Reference no. : M22L1b0110
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Yang, F., Tan, T. C., Prakash, S., Kumar, A., Ariando, A., Singh, R., Wang, N., & Pitchappa, P. (2023). Reconfigurable Wide‐Angle Beam‐Steering Terahertz Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide. Advanced Optical Materials, 12(9). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202302047
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