Toward smart wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces: A contemporary survey

S Gong, X Lu, DT Hoang, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the …

Active metamaterials and metadevices: a review

S Xiao, T Wang, T Liu, C Zhou, X Jiang… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials, as artificially structured materials composed of subwavelength arrays of
resonant unit cells, can exhibit exotic properties beyond those accessible to natural …

RIS-aided wireless communications: Prototyping, adaptive beamforming, and indoor/outdoor field trials

X Pei, H Yin, L Tan, L Cao, Z Li, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prospects of using a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) to aid wireless
communication systems have recently received much attention from academia and industry …

Vision, application scenarios, and key technology trends for 6G mobile communications

Z Wang, Y Du, K Wei, K Han, X Xu, G Wei… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
With the global commercialization of the fifth-generation (5G) network, many countries,
including China, USA, European countries, Japan, and Korea, have started exploring 6G …

[PDF][PDF] Graphene-empowered dynamic metasurfaces and metadevices

C Zeng, H Lu, D Mao, Y Du, H Hua, W Zhao… - Opto-Electron …, 2022 - researching.cn
Metasurfaces, with extremely exotic capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves,
have derived a plethora of advanced metadevices with intriguing functionalities …

Metamaterial absorbers: from tunable surface to structural transformation

W Li, M Xu, HX Xu, X Wang, W Huang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first demonstration, remarkable progress has been made in the theoretical
analysis, structural design, numerical simulation, and potential applications of metamaterial …

Toward intelligent metasurfaces: the progress from globally tunable metasurfaces to software‐defined metasurfaces with an embedded network of controllers

O Tsilipakos, AC Tasolamprou… - Advanced optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces, the ultrathin, 2D version of metamaterials, have recently attracted a surge of
attention for their capability to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Recent advances in …

Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications

S Sun, Q He, J Hao, S Xiao, L Zhou - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are ultrathin metamaterials consisting of planar electromagnetic (EM)
microstructures (eg, meta-atoms) with pre-determined EM responses arranged in specific …

Metamaterials and metasurfaces: A review from the perspectives of materials, mechanisms and advanced metadevices

A Ali, A Mitra, B Aïssa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

Metasurfaces: From microwaves to visible

SB Glybovski, SA Tretyakov, PA Belov, YS Kivshar… - Physics reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the basic physics and applications of a special class of planar metamaterials,
often called metasurfaces, which are composed of optically thin and densely packed planar …