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YANG Huanhuan, CAO Xiangyu, GAO Jun, et al. Recent advances in reconfigurable metasurfaces and their applications[J]. Journal of Radars, 2021, 10(2): 206–219. doi: 10.12000/JR20137
Citation: YANG Huanhuan, CAO Xiangyu, GAO Jun, et al. Recent advances in reconfigurable metasurfaces and their applications[J]. Journal of Radars, 2021, 10(2): 206–219. doi: 10.12000/JR20137
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Recent Advances in Reconfigurable Metasurfaces and Their Applications

DOI: 10.12000/JR20137
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    Telecommunication Engineering Institute AFEU, Xi’an 710077, China

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    Unit 78111 of PLA, Chengdu 610031, China

Funds:  The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61671464, 61701523, 61801508), The Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province (2019JQ-103, 2020JM-350), Young Talents Support Program of Shaanxi Province (20200108), Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program of China (BX20180375), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2019M653960)
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  • Corresponding author: YANG Huanhuan, jianye8901@126.com; CAO Xiangyu, xiangyucaokdy@163.com
  • Received Date: 2020-11-01
  • Rev Recd Date: 2021-01-19
    • Available Online: 2021-02-22
  • Publish Date: 2021-04-28
    Abstract
  • Recently, reconfigurable metasurfaces have attracted intense attention in the field of electromagnetic metasurfaces. Compared with other metasurfaces, reconfigurable metasurfaces that uses steerable devices or materials to control the electromagnetic wave in real time are more versatile and show great promise in engineering applications. Our team has continuously explored advances of reconfigurable metasurfaces and also studied the microwave region from the perspectives of theory, technique and applications. This study reviews the research history of reconfigurable metasurfaces and summarizes some of our previous works, including a study on the amplitude, phase and polarization modulation of electromagnetic waves and their applications. Finally, the study discusses future challenges and possibilities for reconfigurable metasurfaces.

     

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