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Frequency-hopping wave engineering with metasurfaces

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  • Hiroki Takeshita

    (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa)

  • Ashif Aminulloh Fathnan

    (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa
    National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN))

  • Daisuke Nita

    (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa)

  • Atsuko Nagata

    (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa)

  • Shinya Sugiura

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Hiroki Wakatsuchi

    (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa)

Abstract

Wave phenomena can be artificially engineered by scattering from metasurfaces, which aids in the design of radio-frequency and optical devices for wireless communication, sensing, imaging, wireless power transfer and bio/medical applications. Scattering responses vary with changing frequency; conversely, they remain unchanged at a constant frequency, which has been a long-standing limitation in the design of devices leveraging wave scattering phenomena. Here, we present metasurfaces that can scatter incident waves according to two variables—the frequency and pulse width—in multiple bands. Significantly, these scattering profiles are characterized by how the frequencies are used in different time windows due to transient circuits. In particular, by using more than one frequency with coupled transient circuits, we demonstrate variable scattering profiles in response to unique frequency sequences, which can break a conventional linear frequency concept and markedly increase the available frequency channels in accordance with a factorial number of frequencies used. Our proposed concept, which is analogous to frequency hopping in wireless communication, advances wave engineering in electromagnetics and related fields.

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  • Hiroki Takeshita & Ashif Aminulloh Fathnan & Daisuke Nita & Atsuko Nagata & Shinya Sugiura & Hiroki Wakatsuchi, 2024. "Frequency-hopping wave engineering with metasurfaces," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-44627-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44627-8
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