The electric-controlled metasurface antenna array(ECMSAA)with ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable reflection suppression is proposed and realized.Firstly,an electriccontrolled metasurface with ultra-wideband frequ...The electric-controlled metasurface antenna array(ECMSAA)with ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable reflection suppression is proposed and realized.Firstly,an electriccontrolled metasurface with ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable in-phase reflection characteristics is designed.The element of the ECMSAA is constructed by loading the single electric-controlled metasurface unit on the conventional patch antenna element.The radiation properties of the conventional patch antenna and the reflection performance of electric-controlled metasurface are maintained when the antenna and the metasurface are integrated.Thus,the ECMSAA elements have excellent radiation properties and ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable in-phase reflection characteristics simultaneously.To take a further step,a 6×10 ECMSAA is realized based on the designed metasurface antenna element.Simulated and measured results prove that the reflection of the ECMSAA is dynamically suppressed in the P and L bands.Meanwhile,high-gain and multi-polarization radiation properties of the ECMSAA are achieved.This design method not only realizes the frequency reconfigurable reflection suppression of the antenna array in the ultra-wide frequency band but also provides a way to develop an intelligent low-scattering antenna.展开更多
Physical layer key generation(PKG)technology leverages the reciprocal channel randomness to generate the shared secret keys.The low secret key capacity of the existing PKG schemes is due to the reduction in degree-of-...Physical layer key generation(PKG)technology leverages the reciprocal channel randomness to generate the shared secret keys.The low secret key capacity of the existing PKG schemes is due to the reduction in degree-of-freedom from multipath fading channels to multipath combined channels.To improve the wireless key generation rate,we propose a multipath channel diversity-based PKG scheme.Assisted by dynamic metasurface antennas(DMA),a two-stage multipath channel parameter estimation algorithm is proposed to efficiently realize super-resolution multipath parameter estimation.The proposed algorithm first estimates the angle of arrival(AOA)based on the reconfigurable radiation pattern of DMA,and then utilizes the results to design the training beamforming and receive beamforming to improve the estimation accuracy of the path gain.After multipath separation and parameter estimation,multi-dimensional independent path gains are utilized for generating secret keys.Finally,we analyze the security and complexity of the proposed scheme and give an upper bound on the secret key capacity in the high signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)region.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the secret key capacity compared with the existing schemes.展开更多
A wideband high-gain and low-profile metasurface antenna is proposed by analyzing characteristic quantities and parameters in the characteristic modes(CMs). The detailed modal current and modal weighting coefficient a...A wideband high-gain and low-profile metasurface antenna is proposed by analyzing characteristic quantities and parameters in the characteristic modes(CMs). The detailed modal current and modal weighting coefficient are analyzed to explain the broadband operation and high gain. A dominant characteristic mode is well excited, leading to a broadband operation. The mode behaviors of the excitation are changed to suppress the unwanted higher-order modes and improve the radiation performance by changing the widths of two patches. The measured impedance bandwidth for-10 dB is 39.8%(5.3 GHz–7.94 GHz) with a gain of 7.8 dBi–10.04 dBi over the operating bandwidth.展开更多
A novel metasurface antenna consisting of 5×5 rectangular patch elements is presented.Thestructure with and without the central element are both analyzed by the Characteristic Mode Theory(CMT).The developed mutua...A novel metasurface antenna consisting of 5×5 rectangular patch elements is presented.Thestructure with and without the central element are both analyzed by the Characteristic Mode Theory(CMT).The developed mutually orthogonal principal modes of the optimized periodic patch structure areexcited by a center-feed dipole.A differential feeding network is employed to realize impedance matching.Prototype with profile height of 0.07λ_(0)(λ_(0)is the wavelength in free space at the lowest operatingfrequency)is fabricated and assembled to verify the simulation results.The measured results show that thereflectance coefficient of proposed matesurface antenna is less than-10 dB in the whole operating bandrange from 4.2 GHz to 5.5 GHz,a relative bandwidth of 26.8%is achieved,and the maximummeasured realized gain is more than 9 dBi with a maximum radiation efficiency of 90%.The designprovides a guideline on the application of characteristic modes(CMs)to radiation problems.展开更多
In this paper, a multi-band metasurface（MS） antenna array with low radar cross section（RCS） performance is proposed and measured. Firstly, a 44 antenna array is composed of four 22 Jerusalem cross structure antenn...In this paper, a multi-band metasurface（MS） antenna array with low radar cross section（RCS） performance is proposed and measured. Firstly, a 44 antenna array is composed of four 22 Jerusalem cross structure antenna arrays working at different frequency bands, which is aimed at enhancing the bandwidth effectively. Then, each antenna can be seen as a unit of MS in spite of adding the feeding structure. Based on phase cancellation principle, the MS is arranged into a chessboard configuration in order to realize wideband RCS reduction. Thus, excellent radiation and scattering characteristics are obtained simultaneously. Simulated and measured results indicate that this work provides a novel method to achieve bandwidth expansion as well as wideband RCS reduction of the antenna array.展开更多
Intelligent devices have significantly improved our daily lives,but have engendered security and privacy concerns.To mitigate these issues,a real-time intelligent sensing system with privacy protection is proposed bas...Intelligent devices have significantly improved our daily lives,but have engendered security and privacy concerns.To mitigate these issues,a real-time intelligent sensing system with privacy protection is proposed based on a space-timecoding metasurface antenna.The employed metasurface antenna has a low profile,fast programmability,and flexible wavefront reconfiguration capability,enabling single-beam steering across a±60°range with 15°resolution over distances of 0.6-2 m.Through rapid beam steering,timely signal processing,and synchronization optimization,the system achieves precise and realtime target tracking with an ultralow latency of 0.01 s.Crucially,the system is configured to solely detect the presence and movement of individuals without capturing visual images,thus avoiding the privacy risks inherent in video surveillance.This research holds great potential for advancement in smart homes,healthcare systems,and cognitive radars,providing a viable solution to alleviate visual privacy concerns.展开更多
An array’s degree of freedom(DoF)determines the number of jamming incidents that can be managed and the antijamming performance.Conventional arrays can improve the DoF only by increasing the number of antennas.On the...An array’s degree of freedom(DoF)determines the number of jamming incidents that can be managed and the antijamming performance.Conventional arrays can improve the DoF only by increasing the number of antennas.On the other hand,when the received signal is digitized,high-power jamming will reduce the number of bits used to represent the desired signal,further increasing the difficulty of back-end antijamming based on digital signal processing.In this paper,we propose a joint radio frequency(RF)front-end and digital back-end antijamming scheme based on a metasurface antenna array.The metasurface antennas can rapidly switch patterns when receiving signals,so that a single channel can be equivalent to multiple channels and increase the DoF.We use independent component analysis to estimate the channel and then optimize the array parameters under the minimum signal-to-jamming ratio constraint of each antenna.The proposed scheme works well under high-power jamming conditions by suppressing jamming at the RF front end and using a low-precision analog-to-digital converter.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme reduces the bit error rate of the received signals by one order of magnitude compared with the conventional array.展开更多
A novel broadband metasurface (MTS) antenna array with high front-to-back ratio (FBR) is proposed for 28 GHz millimeter-wave applications. With slot pairs loaded on patch cells, an aperturecoupled slotted-mushroom MTS...A novel broadband metasurface (MTS) antenna array with high front-to-back ratio (FBR) is proposed for 28 GHz millimeter-wave applications. With slot pairs loaded on patch cells, an aperturecoupled slotted-mushroom MTS antenna is designed to obtain broadband radiation characteristicswith a compact size. To suppress the backward radiation of this antenna, the printed ridge gapwaveguide (PRGW) technology with a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) shielding made ofmushroom unit-cells underneath the microstrip feeding line is applied. On this basis, a 4×4 MTSantenna array with the PRGW feed network is developed. Simulated results show that the FBR canbe highly improved by over 16 dB within the entire bandwidth. To validate the design, a prototypeof the proposed antenna is fabricated. Measured results show that an FBR greater than 28 dB canbe obtained over a 24% impedance bandwidth (from 24.9 GHz to 31.7 GHz) with the reflectioncoefficient less than 10 dB. The measured antenna gain ranges from 17 dBi to 19.2 dBi and thecorresponding measured aperture efficiencies are 35% and 45.6%. The measured results alsosuggest that the proposed MTS antenna possesses -35 dB cross-polarization level and stable radiation patterns. In addition, the proposed antenna remains a very low profile of 1.7 mm (0.17λ_(0) at28 GHz). All the achieved features indicate that the proposed MTS antenna is an importantcandidate for B5G and 6G wireless communication.展开更多
A new method to design an ultra-thin high-gain circularly-polarized antenna system with high efficiency is proposed based on the geometrical phase gradient metasurface（GPGM）.With an accuracy control of the transmiss...A new method to design an ultra-thin high-gain circularly-polarized antenna system with high efficiency is proposed based on the geometrical phase gradient metasurface（GPGM）.With an accuracy control of the transmission phase and also the high transmission amplitude,the GPGM is capable of manipulating an electromagnetic wave arbitrarily.A focusing transmission lens working at Ku band is well optimized with the F /D of 0.32.A good focusing effect is demonstrated clearly by theoretical calculation and electromagnetic simulation.For further application,an ultra-thin single-layer transmissive lens antenna based on the proposed focusing metasurface operating at 13 GHz is implemented and launched by an original patch antenna from the perspective of high integration,simple structure,and low cost.Numerical and experimental results coincide well,indicating the advantages of the antenna system,such as a high gain of 17.6 d B,the axis ratio better than 2 d B,a high aperture efficiency of 41%,and also a simple fabrication process based on the convenient print circuit board technology.The good performance of the proposed antenna indicates promising applications in portable communication systems.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61901493,61901492,61801485)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2020JJ5676).
文摘The electric-controlled metasurface antenna array(ECMSAA)with ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable reflection suppression is proposed and realized.Firstly,an electriccontrolled metasurface with ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable in-phase reflection characteristics is designed.The element of the ECMSAA is constructed by loading the single electric-controlled metasurface unit on the conventional patch antenna element.The radiation properties of the conventional patch antenna and the reflection performance of electric-controlled metasurface are maintained when the antenna and the metasurface are integrated.Thus,the ECMSAA elements have excellent radiation properties and ultra-wideband frequency reconfigurable in-phase reflection characteristics simultaneously.To take a further step,a 6×10 ECMSAA is realized based on the designed metasurface antenna element.Simulated and measured results prove that the reflection of the ECMSAA is dynamically suppressed in the P and L bands.Meanwhile,high-gain and multi-polarization radiation properties of the ECMSAA are achieved.This design method not only realizes the frequency reconfigurable reflection suppression of the antenna array in the ultra-wide frequency band but also provides a way to develop an intelligent low-scattering antenna.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U22A2001)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFB2902202,No.2022YFB2902205)。
文摘Physical layer key generation(PKG)technology leverages the reciprocal channel randomness to generate the shared secret keys.The low secret key capacity of the existing PKG schemes is due to the reduction in degree-of-freedom from multipath fading channels to multipath combined channels.To improve the wireless key generation rate,we propose a multipath channel diversity-based PKG scheme.Assisted by dynamic metasurface antennas(DMA),a two-stage multipath channel parameter estimation algorithm is proposed to efficiently realize super-resolution multipath parameter estimation.The proposed algorithm first estimates the angle of arrival(AOA)based on the reconfigurable radiation pattern of DMA,and then utilizes the results to design the training beamforming and receive beamforming to improve the estimation accuracy of the path gain.After multipath separation and parameter estimation,multi-dimensional independent path gains are utilized for generating secret keys.Finally,we analyze the security and complexity of the proposed scheme and give an upper bound on the secret key capacity in the high signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)region.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the secret key capacity compared with the existing schemes.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61671464 and 61801508)the Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program of China (Grant No. BX20180375)the Natural Science Research Fund of Shaanxi Province,China (Grant No. 2019JQ-103)。
文摘A wideband high-gain and low-profile metasurface antenna is proposed by analyzing characteristic quantities and parameters in the characteristic modes(CMs). The detailed modal current and modal weighting coefficient are analyzed to explain the broadband operation and high gain. A dominant characteristic mode is well excited, leading to a broadband operation. The mode behaviors of the excitation are changed to suppress the unwanted higher-order modes and improve the radiation performance by changing the widths of two patches. The measured impedance bandwidth for-10 dB is 39.8%(5.3 GHz–7.94 GHz) with a gain of 7.8 dBi–10.04 dBi over the operating bandwidth.
文摘A novel metasurface antenna consisting of 5×5 rectangular patch elements is presented.Thestructure with and without the central element are both analyzed by the Characteristic Mode Theory(CMT).The developed mutually orthogonal principal modes of the optimized periodic patch structure areexcited by a center-feed dipole.A differential feeding network is employed to realize impedance matching.Prototype with profile height of 0.07λ_(0)(λ_(0)is the wavelength in free space at the lowest operatingfrequency)is fabricated and assembled to verify the simulation results.The measured results show that thereflectance coefficient of proposed matesurface antenna is less than-10 dB in the whole operating bandrange from 4.2 GHz to 5.5 GHz,a relative bandwidth of 26.8%is achieved,and the maximummeasured realized gain is more than 9 dBi with a maximum radiation efficiency of 90%.The designprovides a guideline on the application of characteristic modes(CMs)to radiation problems.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61471389,61701523,and 61671464)
文摘In this paper, a multi-band metasurface（MS） antenna array with low radar cross section（RCS） performance is proposed and measured. Firstly, a 44 antenna array is composed of four 22 Jerusalem cross structure antenna arrays working at different frequency bands, which is aimed at enhancing the bandwidth effectively. Then, each antenna can be seen as a unit of MS in spite of adding the feeding structure. Based on phase cancellation principle, the MS is arranged into a chessboard configuration in order to realize wideband RCS reduction. Thus, excellent radiation and scattering characteristics are obtained simultaneously. Simulated and measured results indicate that this work provides a novel method to achieve bandwidth expansion as well as wideband RCS reduction of the antenna array.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.U2241243,52372101)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.JQ22010)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2023ZCJH03)the Teaching Reform Projects at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(BUPT)(Grant No.2024Y010)the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications(IPOC)(BUPT),China(Grant Nos.IPOC2022ZZ03,IPOC2024ZT13)。
文摘Intelligent devices have significantly improved our daily lives,but have engendered security and privacy concerns.To mitigate these issues,a real-time intelligent sensing system with privacy protection is proposed based on a space-timecoding metasurface antenna.The employed metasurface antenna has a low profile,fast programmability,and flexible wavefront reconfiguration capability,enabling single-beam steering across a±60°range with 15°resolution over distances of 0.6-2 m.Through rapid beam steering,timely signal processing,and synchronization optimization,the system achieves precise and realtime target tracking with an ultralow latency of 0.01 s.Crucially,the system is configured to solely detect the presence and movement of individuals without capturing visual images,thus avoiding the privacy risks inherent in video surveillance.This research holds great potential for advancement in smart homes,healthcare systems,and cognitive radars,providing a viable solution to alleviate visual privacy concerns.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U22A2001)the Program of Songshan Laboratory(included in the management of the Major Science and Technology Program of Henan Province),China(No.221100211300-03)。
文摘An array’s degree of freedom(DoF)determines the number of jamming incidents that can be managed and the antijamming performance.Conventional arrays can improve the DoF only by increasing the number of antennas.On the other hand,when the received signal is digitized,high-power jamming will reduce the number of bits used to represent the desired signal,further increasing the difficulty of back-end antijamming based on digital signal processing.In this paper,we propose a joint radio frequency(RF)front-end and digital back-end antijamming scheme based on a metasurface antenna array.The metasurface antennas can rapidly switch patterns when receiving signals,so that a single channel can be equivalent to multiple channels and increase the DoF.We use independent component analysis to estimate the channel and then optimize the array parameters under the minimum signal-to-jamming ratio constraint of each antenna.The proposed scheme works well under high-power jamming conditions by suppressing jamming at the RF front end and using a low-precision analog-to-digital converter.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme reduces the bit error rate of the received signals by one order of magnitude compared with the conventional array.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(62288101,62001342)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1401001)+1 种基金Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi(2021TD-07)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(20103224952).
文摘A novel broadband metasurface (MTS) antenna array with high front-to-back ratio (FBR) is proposed for 28 GHz millimeter-wave applications. With slot pairs loaded on patch cells, an aperturecoupled slotted-mushroom MTS antenna is designed to obtain broadband radiation characteristicswith a compact size. To suppress the backward radiation of this antenna, the printed ridge gapwaveguide (PRGW) technology with a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) shielding made ofmushroom unit-cells underneath the microstrip feeding line is applied. On this basis, a 4×4 MTSantenna array with the PRGW feed network is developed. Simulated results show that the FBR canbe highly improved by over 16 dB within the entire bandwidth. To validate the design, a prototypeof the proposed antenna is fabricated. Measured results show that an FBR greater than 28 dB canbe obtained over a 24% impedance bandwidth (from 24.9 GHz to 31.7 GHz) with the reflectioncoefficient less than 10 dB. The measured antenna gain ranges from 17 dBi to 19.2 dBi and thecorresponding measured aperture efficiencies are 35% and 45.6%. The measured results alsosuggest that the proposed MTS antenna possesses -35 dB cross-polarization level and stable radiation patterns. In addition, the proposed antenna remains a very low profile of 1.7 mm (0.17λ_(0) at28 GHz). All the achieved features indicate that the proposed MTS antenna is an importantcandidate for B5G and 6G wireless communication.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61372034)
文摘A new method to design an ultra-thin high-gain circularly-polarized antenna system with high efficiency is proposed based on the geometrical phase gradient metasurface（GPGM）.With an accuracy control of the transmission phase and also the high transmission amplitude,the GPGM is capable of manipulating an electromagnetic wave arbitrarily.A focusing transmission lens working at Ku band is well optimized with the F /D of 0.32.A good focusing effect is demonstrated clearly by theoretical calculation and electromagnetic simulation.For further application,an ultra-thin single-layer transmissive lens antenna based on the proposed focusing metasurface operating at 13 GHz is implemented and launched by an original patch antenna from the perspective of high integration,simple structure,and low cost.Numerical and experimental results coincide well,indicating the advantages of the antenna system,such as a high gain of 17.6 d B,the axis ratio better than 2 d B,a high aperture efficiency of 41%,and also a simple fabrication process based on the convenient print circuit board technology.The good performance of the proposed antenna indicates promising applications in portable communication systems.
