Metamaterial, plasmonic and nanophotonic devices

F Monticone, A Alu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of metamaterials has opened landscapes of possibilities in basic science, and a
paradigm shift in the way we think about and design emergent material properties. In many …

Progress and perspective on advanced cloaking metasurfaces: from invisibility to intelligent antennas

S Vellucci, A Monti, M Barbuto, A Toscano… - EPJ Applied …, 2021 - epjam.epj.org
Among the different cloaking applications proposed in the literature, the antenna framework
has emerged as one of the most fruitful and mature field. In particular, mantle cloaking …

Metasurfaces 3.0: a new paradigm for enabling smart electromagnetic environments

M Barbuto, Z Hamzavi-Zarghani… - … on Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
So far, the environment has been considered as a source of fading, clutter, and blockage,
with detrimental consequences for efficiency and robustness of communication systems …

Waveform-selective mantle cloaks for intelligent antennas

S Vellucci, A Monti, M Barbuto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design of an innovative wire antenna able to automatically hide or reveal its
presence depending on the waveform of the received/transmitted signal. This …

Intelligence enabled by 2D metastructures in antennas and wireless propagation systems

M Barbuto, Z Hamzavi-Zarghani… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of the next generation of wireless systems is bringing renewed attention to
the physical layer of the communication link. Indeed, the new low-latency requirements …

[HTML][HTML] Mantle cloaking for co-site radio-frequency antennas

A Monti, J Soric, M Barbuto, D Ramaccia… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We show that properly designed mantle cloaks, consisting of patterned metallic sheets
placed around cylindrical monopoles, allow tightly packing the same antennas together in a …

[HTML][HTML] A multiband metamaterial absorber for GHz and THz simultaneously

Z Luo, S Ji, J Zhao, H Wu, H Dai - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, more and more metamaterial absorbers (MMAs) are explored not only in the
microwave band but also in terahertz band, but few studies concentrate on metamaterial …

Quadratic-gradient metasurface-dome for wide-angle beam-steering phased array with reduced gain loss at broadside

A Monti, S Vellucci, M Barbuto… - … on Antennas and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the use of deflecting covering meta-domes for increasing the scanning range of a
phased array has been proposed. Although promising, this solution still presents some …

Phase-gradient Huygens' metasurface coatings for dynamic beamforming in linear antennas

S Vellucci, M Longhi, A Monti, M Barbuto… - … on Antennas and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The beamforming capabilities of conformal cylindrical Huygens metasurface (HMS) coatings
for linear antennas are assessed. It is shown that by engineering the phase-gradient profile …

Dual-polarized reduction of dipole antenna blockage using mantle cloaks

JC Soric, A Monti, A Toscano, F Bilotti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We theoretically and experimentally explore the use of mantle covers to cloak dipole
antennas and reduce their blockage on nearby antennas. The proposed structures allow …