Engineering of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Reflection Locality and Angular Stability

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2024-05-01

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14

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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume 72, issue 5, pp. 4198-4211

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are electromagnetically passive controllable structures, deflecting incident wave beams in tunable directions. A usual way to design RIS using metasurfaces (MSs) is based on the approximation in which the reflective properties of a uniform MS are attributed to unit cells of the nonuniform one. We call this approximation the reflection locality (RL) and analyze its applicability. We prove that RL holds for a wide range of incidence and deflection angles if and only if uniform MSs based on which the nonuniform one is generated possess so-called angular stability (AS). AS of an infinite uniform MS (that we call generic MS) means that its reflection coefficient is independent of the incidence angle for both TE and TM polarizations.

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Angular stability (AS), channel reciprocity, metasurface (MS), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), smart environment, wireless communication

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Shabanpour, J, Lenets, V, Lerosey, G, Tretyakov, S & Simovski, C 2024, ' Engineering of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Reflection Locality and Angular Stability ', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 4198-4211 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2024.3375659