https://doi.org/10.1051/epjam/2020007
Review
Recent advances and perspectives on space-time coding digital metasurfaces
1
State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China
2
Fields & Waves Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Corso Garibaldi 107, 82100, Benevento, Italy
* e-mail: tjcui@seu.edu.cn
** e-mail: vgaldi@unisannio.it
Received:
14
October
2020
Accepted:
13
November
2020
Published online: 11 December 2020
Within the overarching framework of space-time metastructures, digital metasurfaces based on spatio-temporal coding are emerging as powerful and versatile architectures for complex field manipulations, also in view of their inherently programmable nature. Here, we provide a compact survey of our recent results and ongoing studies in this research area. Examples of field manipulations include harmonic beam steering and/or shaping and programmable nonreciprocal effects. Possible applications are abundant and range from wireless communications to radars and imaging.
Key words: Metasurfaces / space-time / digital / coding / communications / radars
© L. Zhang et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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