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Error analysis of programmable metasurfaces for beam steering
Authors
Sergi Abadal Cavallé
Alberto Cabellos Aparicio
Julius Georgiou
Hamidreza Taghvaee
Publication date
25 February 2020
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'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
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© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Recent years have seen the emergence of programmable metasurfaces, where the user can modify the electromagnetic (EM) response of the device via software. Adding reconfigurability to the already powerful EM capabilities of metasurfaces opens the door to novel cyber-physical systems with exciting applications in domains such as holography, cloaking, or wireless communications. This paradigm shift, however, comes with a non-trivial increase of the complexity of the metasurfaces that will pose new reliability challenges stemming from the need to integrate tuning, control, and communication resources to implement the programmability. While metasurfaces will become prone to failures, little is known about their tolerance to errors. To bridge this gap, this paper examines the reliability problem in programmable metamaterials by proposing an error model and a general methodology for error analysis. To derive the error model, the causes and potential impact of faults are identified and discussed qualitatively. The methodology is presented and exemplified for beam steering, which constitutes a relevant case for programmable metasurfaces. Results show that performance degradation depends on the type of error and its spatial distribution and that, in beam steering, error rates over 20% can still be considered acceptable.This work has been supported by the European Commission under grant H2020-FETOPEN-736876 (VISORSURF) and by ICREA under the ICREA Academia programme. The person and base station icons in Figure 1 were created by Jens Tärningand Clea Doltz from the Noun Project.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
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