Design and Demonstration of Shapeshifting Electromagnetic Reflector with Decoupled Phase and Magnitude Control.
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Abstract
A novel shape-shifting mechatronic reflector system is proposed and demonstrated experimentally with a variety of real-time beam-forming examples.The reconfigurable reflector utilizes a stepper motor array to displace metasurface columns for 1D beam-forming at X-band frequencies, affording real-time de-embedding of phase to endow fully decoupled phase coverage.The design of a prototype is discussed, which consists of a printed circuit board (PCB) based resonator array forming the reflector front end, a stepper motor array assembly, a custom built chassis using 3D printed parts and a fully programmable analog and digital electronic back-end for PIN-diode biasing and motor control.The reflector system consists of an array of panels of sub-wavelength split ring resonators loaded with PIN-diodes (i.e.electrically tunable resistors) for reflection magnitude control at 10.655 GHz, thus offering excellent decoupling between the magnitude and phase.The real-time beam-forming feature of the proposed reflector system is further experimentally demonstrated using the illustrative examples of single beam steering with gain control, symmetrical dual-beam steering using 1-bit phase encoding, and the generation of asymmetric dual beam radiation patterns where the two beams are independently controlled.The last capability in particular is unlocked through achieving true decoupling between the reflection magnitudes and phases.Additionally, analysis of a measurement system used to characterize the beam-forming ability of metasurface reflectors is presented.In particular, its ability to accurately capture beam-steering within the radiating near-field zone of the reflector is explored through simulation.Finally, this work concludes with remarks on extensions of this concept towards alternative electromechanical reflector systems, where focus is given to their miniaturization towards mm-wave and sub-THz operation through the incorporation of tuneable graphene-based resistive elements.
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