Over the past few decades, electronic warfare has evolved from a simple confrontation between static systems to an extremely complex combat configuration with numerous reconfigurable systems optimizing their tasks in real time. Today, we can consider that platforms, which interact with electromagnetic waves, and the environment, which functions as a communication channel, are electronically static. In this scenario, reconfigurability is essentially ensured by the software modules and the radio hardware they control.
This webinar describes how metasurfaces can add extra layers of dynamism to the core of the problem, including platforms and even the environment.
Metasurfaces are artificial structures composed of unit cells that can be polarized when excited by electromagnetic waves. The dimensions of the unit cells, which are smaller than a wavelength, enable the structure to be treated as a surface impedance. What's more, their resonant nature allows arbitrary reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients within each cell, enabling dynamic control of electromagnetic waves. In a few years' time, metasurfaces will be deployed everywhere in cities, and ordinary people will become accustomed to them. Inevitably, they will also be widely exploited for military purposes.
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