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Sokol SL, Colwell ZA, Kandala SK, Imani MF, Sohn SM. Flexible Metamaterial Wrap for Improved Head Imaging at 3 T MRI With Low-Cost and Easy Fabrication Method. IEEE Antennas Wirel Propag Lett 2022; 21:2075-2079. [PMID: 36388763 PMCID: PMC9648536 DOI: 10.1109/lawp.2022.3190696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires spatial uniformity of the radiofrequency (RF) field inside the subject for maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and image contrast. Bulky high permittivity dielectric pads (HPDPs) focus magnetic fields into the region of interest (ROI) and increase RF field uniformity when placed between the patient and RF coils in the MR scanner. Metamaterials could replace HPDPs and reduce system bulkiness, but those in the literature often require a complicated fabrication process and cannot conform to patient body shape. Proposed is a flexible metamaterial for brain imaging made with a scalable fabrication process using conductive paint and a plastic laminate substrate. The effects of single and double-sided placement of the metamaterial around a human head phantom were investigated in a 3 T scanner. When two metamaterial sheets were wrapped around a head phantom (double-sided placement), the total average signal in the resulting image increased by 10.14% compared to placing a single metamaterial sheet underneath the phantom (single-sided placement). The difference between the maximum and minimum signal intensity values decreased by 57% in six different ROIs with double-sided placement compared to single-sided placement.
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- Samantha L Sokol
- Dept. of Elect. Eng., Sch. of Elect. Comput. & Energy Eng. Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Sciences Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Sciences Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Dept. of Elect. Eng., Sch. of Elect. Comput. & Energy Eng. Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Sciences Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, USA
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This paper introduces the concept of smart radio environments, currently intensely studied for wireless communication in metasurface-programmable meter-scaled environments (e.g., inside rooms), on the chip scale. Wireless networks-on-chips (WNoCs) are a candidate technology to improve inter-core communication on chips but current proposals are plagued by a dilemma: either the received signal is weak, or it is significantly reverberated such that the on-off-keying modulation speed must be throttled. Here, this vexing problem is overcome by endowing the wireless on-chip environment with in situ programmability which enables the shaping of the channel impulse response (CIR); thereby, a pulse-like CIR shape can be imposed despite strong multipath propagation and without entailing a reduced received signal strength. First, a programmable metasurface suitable for integration in the on-chip environment ("on-chip reconfigurable intelligent surface") is designed and characterized. Second, its configuration is optimized to equalize selected wireless on-chip channels "over the air." Third, by conducting a rigorous communication analysis, the feasibility of significantly higher modulation speeds with shaped CIRs is evidenced. The results introduce a programmability paradigm to WNoCs which boosts their competitiveness as complementary on-chip interconnect solution.
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- Mohammadreza F. Imani
- School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy EngineeringArizona State UniversityTempeAZ85287USA
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- NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat)Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBarcelona08034Spain
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Diebold AV, Pendry JB, Favaro A, Imani MF, Smith DR. Spatial coherence in 2D holography. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2021; 38:727-736. [PMID: 33983278 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.419420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Holography is a long-established technique to encode an object's spatial information into a lower-dimensional representation. We investigate the role of the illumination's spatial coherence properties in the success of such an imaging system through point spread function and Fourier domain analysis. Incoherent illumination is shown to result in more robust imaging performance free of diffraction artifacts at the cost of incurring background noise and sacrificing phase retrieval. Numerical studies confirm that this background noise reduces image sensitivity as the image size increases, in agreement with other similar systems. Following this analysis, we demonstrate a 2D holographic imaging system realized with lensless, 1D measurements of microwave fields generated by dynamic metasurface apertures.
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Boyarsky M, Imani MF, Smith DR. Grating lobe suppression in metasurface antenna arrays with a waveguide feed layer. Opt Express 2020; 28:23991-24004. [PMID: 32752386 DOI: 10.1364/oe.398440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Metasurface antennas offer an alternative architecture to electrically large beamsteering arrays often used in radar and communications. The advantages offered by metasurfaces are enabled by the use of passive, tunable radiating elements. While these metamaterial elements do not exhibit the full range of phase tuning as can be obtained with phase shifters, they can be engineered to provide a similar level of performance with much lower power requirements and circuit complexity. Due to the limited phase and magnitude control, however, larger metasurface apertures can be susceptible to strong grating lobes which result from an unwanted periodic magnitude response that accompanies an ideal phase pattern. In this work, we combine antenna theory with analytical modeling of metamaterial elements to mathematically reveal the source of such grating lobes. To circumvent this problem, we introduce a compensatory waveguide feed layer designed to suppress grating lobes in metasurface antenna arrays. The waveguide feed layer helps metasurface antennas approach the performance of phased arrays from an improved hardware platform, poising metasurface antennas to impact a variety of beamforming applications.
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del Hougne P, Imani MF, Diebold AV, Horstmeyer R, Smith DR. Learned Integrated Sensing Pipeline: Reconfigurable Metasurface Transceivers as Trainable Physical Layer in an Artificial Neural Network. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2020; 7:1901913. [PMID: 32042558 PMCID: PMC7001623 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201901913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Revised: 10/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The rapid proliferation of intelligent systems (e.g., fully autonomous vehicles) in today's society relies on sensors with low latency and computational effort. Yet current sensing systems ignore most available a priori knowledge, notably in the design of the hardware level, such that they fail to extract as much task-relevant information per measurement as possible. Here, a "learned integrated sensing pipeline" (LISP), including in an end-to-end fashion both physical and processing layers, is shown to enable joint learning of optimal measurement strategies and a matching processing algorithm, making use of a priori knowledge on task, scene, and measurement constraints. Numerical results demonstrate accuracy improvements around 15% for object recognition tasks with limited numbers of measurements, using dynamic metasurface apertures capable of transceiving programmable microwave patterns. Moreover, it is concluded that the optimal learned microwave patterns are nonintuitive, underlining the importance of the LISP paradigm in current sensorization trends.
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- Philipp del Hougne
- Institut de Physique de NiceCNRS UMR 7010Université Côte d'AzurNice06108France
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated PlasmonicsDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDuke UniversityDurhamNC27708USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated PlasmonicsDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDuke UniversityDurhamNC27708USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated PlasmonicsDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDuke UniversityDurhamNC27708USA
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Del Hougne P, Imani MF, Fink M, Smith DR, Lerosey G. Precise Localization of Multiple Noncooperative Objects in a Disordered Cavity by Wave Front Shaping. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:063901. [PMID: 30141669 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.063901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Complicated multipath trajectories of waves in disordered cavities cause object localization to be very challenging with traditional ray-tracing approaches. Yet it is known that information about the object position is encoded in the Green's function. After a calibration step, traditional time-reversal approaches retrieve a source's location from a broadband impulse response measurement. Here, we show that a nonemitting object's scattering contribution to a reverberant medium suffices to localize the object. We demonstrate our finding in the microwave domain. Then, we further simplify the scheme by replacing the temporal degrees of freedom (d.o.f.) of the broadband measurement with spatial d.o.f. obtained from wave front shaping. A simple electronically reconfigurable reflectarray inside the cavity dynamically modulates parts of the cavity boundaries, thereby providing spatial d.o.f. The demonstrated ability to localize multiple noncooperative objects with a single-frequency scheme may have important applications for sensors in smart homes.
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- Philipp Del Hougne
- Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Greenerwave, ESPCI Paris Incubator PC'up, 6 rue Jean Calvin, 75005 Paris, France
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Boyarsky M, Sleasman T, Pulido-Mancera L, Diebold AV, Imani MF, Smith DR. Single-frequency 3D synthetic aperture imaging with dynamic metasurface antennas. Appl Opt 2018; 57:4123-4134. [PMID: 29791386 DOI: 10.1364/ao.57.004123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Through aperture synthesis, an electrically small antenna can be used to form a high-resolution imaging system capable of reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) scenes. However, the large spectral bandwidth typically required in synthetic aperture radar systems to resolve objects in range often requires costly and complex RF components. We present here an alternative approach based on a hybrid imaging system that combines a dynamically reconfigurable aperture with synthetic aperture techniques, demonstrating the capability to resolve objects in three dimensions (3D), with measurements taken at a single frequency. At the core of our imaging system are two metasurface apertures, both of which consist of a linear array of metamaterial irises that couple to a common waveguide feed. Each metamaterial iris has integrated within it a diode that can be biased so as to switch the element on (radiating) or off (non-radiating), such that the metasurface antenna can produce distinct radiation profiles corresponding to different on/off patterns of the metamaterial element array. The electrically large size of the metasurface apertures enables resolution in range and one cross-range dimension, while aperture synthesis provides resolution in the other cross-range dimension. The demonstrated imaging capabilities of this system represent a step forward in the development of low-cost, high-performance 3D microwave imaging systems.
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Del Hougne P, F Imani M, Sleasman T, Gollub JN, Fink M, Lerosey G, Smith DR. Dynamic Metasurface Aperture as Smart Around-the-Corner Motion Detector. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6536. [PMID: 29695810 PMCID: PMC5916952 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24681-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Detecting and analysing motion is a key feature of Smart Homes and the connected sensor vision they embrace. At present, most motion sensors operate in line-of-sight Doppler shift schemes. Here, we propose an alternative approach suitable for indoor environments, which effectively constitute disordered cavities for radio frequency (RF) waves; we exploit the fundamental sensitivity of modes of such cavities to perturbations, caused here by moving objects. We establish experimentally three key features of our proposed system: (i) ability to capture the temporal variations of motion and discern information such as periodicity (“smart”), (ii) non line-of-sight motion detection, and (iii) single-frequency operation. Moreover, we explain theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that the use of dynamic metasurface apertures can substantially enhance the performance of RF motion detection. Potential applications include accurately detecting human presence and monitoring inhabitants’ vital signs.
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- Philipp Del Hougne
- Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France. .,Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA.
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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Diebold AV, Imani MF, Sleasman T, Smith DR. Phaseless computational ghost imaging at microwave frequencies using a dynamic metasurface aperture. Appl Opt 2018; 57:2142-2149. [PMID: 29604010 DOI: 10.1364/ao.57.002142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We demonstrate a dynamic metasurface aperture as a unique tool for computational ghost imaging at microwave frequencies. The aperture consists of a microstrip waveguide loaded with an array of metamaterial elements, each of which couples energy from the waveguide mode to the radiation field. With a tuning mechanism introduced into each independently addressable metamaterial element, the aperture can produce diverse radiation patterns that vary as a function of tuning state. Here, we show that fields from such an aperture approximately obey speckle statistics in the radiative near field. Inspired by the analogy with optical correlation imaging, we use the dynamic aperture as a means of illuminating a scene with structured microwave radiation, receiving the backscattered intensity with a simple waveguide probe. By correlating the magnitude of the received signal with the structured intensity patterns, we demonstrate high-fidelity, phaseless imaging of sparse targets. The dynamic metasurface aperture as a novel ghost imaging structure can find application in security screening, through-wall imaging, as well as biomedical diagnostics.
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Boyarsky M, Sleasman T, Pulido-Mancera L, Fromenteze T, Pedross-Engel A, Watts CM, Imani MF, Reynolds MS, Smith DR. Synthetic aperture radar with dynamic metasurface antennas: a conceptual development. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2017; 34:A22-A36. [PMID: 28463331 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.34.000a22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We investigate the application of dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. Metasurface antennas can generate a multitude of tailored electromagnetic waveforms from a physical platform that is low-cost, lightweight, and planar; these characteristics are not readily available with traditional SAR technologies, such as phased arrays and mechanically steered systems. We show that electronically tuned DMAs can generate steerable, directive beams for traditional stripmap and spotlight SAR imaging modes. This capability eliminates the need for mechanical gimbals and phase shifters, simplifying the hardware architecture of a SAR system. Additionally, we discuss alternative imaging modalities, including enhanced resolution stripmap and diverse pattern stripmap, which can achieve resolution on par with spotlight, while maintaining a large region-of-interest, as possible with stripmap. Further consideration is given to strategies for integrating metasurfaces with chirped pulse RF sources. DMAs are poised to propel SAR systems forward by offering a vast range of capabilities from a significantly improved physical platform.
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Gollub JN, Yurduseven O, Trofatter KP, Arnitz D, F Imani M, Sleasman T, Boyarsky M, Rose A, Pedross-Engel A, Odabasi H, Zvolensky T, Lipworth G, Brady D, Marks DL, Reynolds MS, Smith DR. Large Metasurface Aperture for Millimeter Wave Computational Imaging at the Human-Scale. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42650. [PMID: 28218254 PMCID: PMC5316995 DOI: 10.1038/srep42650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We demonstrate a low-profile holographic imaging system at millimeter wavelengths based on an aperture composed of frequency-diverse metasurfaces. Utilizing measurements of spatially-diverse field patterns, diffraction-limited images of human-sized subjects are reconstructed. The system is driven by a single microwave source swept over a band of frequencies (17.5–26.5 GHz) and switched between a collection of transmit and receive metasurface panels. High fidelity image reconstruction requires a precise model for each field pattern generated by the aperture, as well as the manner in which the field scatters from objects in the scene. This constraint makes scaling of computational imaging systems inherently challenging for electrically large, coherent apertures. To meet the demanding requirements, we introduce computational methods and calibration approaches that enable rapid and accurate imaging performance.
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- J N Gollub
- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Evolv Technology, 200 West Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Duke University, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Yoo I, Imani MF, Sleasman T, Smith DR. Efficient complementary metamaterial element for waveguide-fed metasurface antennas. Opt Express 2016; 24:28686-28692. [PMID: 27958512 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.028686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present a metamaterial element designed as an efficient radiator for waveguide-fed metasurface antennas. The metamaterial element is an electrically-small, complimentary electric-LC (cELC) resonator designed to exhibit large radiated power while maintaining low ohmic losses. The shape of the element is tapered to simultaneously achieve broadband operation and suppression of cross polarization radiation. Full-wave numerical studies at the K-band are conducted to examine its performance when etched into a microstrip line. In this configuration, the element shows a radiation efficiency of 90.2% and a fractional bandwidth of 8.7%. To investigate the potential benefits of the proposed element in two-dimensional platforms, the radiative characteristics of the element are calculated when the element is embedded in a dielectric-filled parallel-plate waveguide. This efficient metamaterial element has potential application as a building block for metasurface devices used in imaging, sensing, wireless power transfer, and wireless communication systems.
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Lipworth G, Rose A, Yurduseven O, Gowda VR, Imani MF, Odabasi H, Trofatter P, Gollub J, Smith DR. Comprehensive simulation platform for a metamaterial imaging system. Appl Opt 2015; 54:9343-9353. [PMID: 26560591 DOI: 10.1364/ao.54.009343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Recently, a frequency-diverse, metamaterial-based aperture has been introduced in the context of microwave and millimeter wave imaging. The generic form of the aperture is that of a parallel plate waveguide, in which complementary metamaterial elements patterned into the upper plate couple energy from the waveguide mode to the scene. To reliably predict the imaging performance of such an aperture prior to fabrication and experiments, it is necessary to have an accurate forward model that predicts radiation from the aperture, a model for scattering from an arbitrary target in the scene, and a set of image reconstruction approaches that allow scene estimation from an arbitrary set of measurements. Here, we introduce a forward model in which the metamaterial elements are approximated as polarizable magnetic dipoles, excited by the fields propagating within the waveguide. The dipoles used in the model can have arbitrarily assigned polarizability characteristics. Alternatively, fields measured from actual metamaterial samples can be decomposed into a set of effective dipole radiators, allowing the performance of actual samples to be quantitatively modeled and compared with simulated apertures. To confirm the validity of our model, we simulate measurements and scene reconstructions with a virtual multiaperture imaging system operating in the K-band spectrum (18-26.5 GHz) and compare its performance with an experimental system.
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Yurduseven O, Imani MF, Odabasi H, Gollub J, Lipworth G, Rose A, Smith DR. RESOLUTION OF THE FREQUENCY DIVERSE METAMATERIAL APERTURE IMAGER. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.2528/pier14113002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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