Saturday, July 17, 2021

Abstract-Multi-Beam Steering for 6G Communications Based on Graphene Metasurfaces

 


Huifang Ai, Qianlong Kang, Wei Wang, Kai Guo, Zhongyi Guo

 (a) Indoor THz communication scheme for multi-user scenarios. (b) Schematic of a graphene metasurface that consists of a metal substrate, a dielectric layer, and top graphene ribbons. (c) A sectional view of the graphene metasurface. p is the grating period, w is the width of the graphene ribbon and s is the thickness of the SiO2 dielectric layer.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/14/4784/htm

As communication technology is entering the 6G era, a great demand for high-performance devices operating in the terahertz (THz) band has emerged. As an important part of 6G technology, indoor communication requires multi-beam steering and tracking to serve multi-users. In this paper, we have designed a graphene metasurface that can realize multi-beam steering for directional radiations. The designed metasurface consists of graphene ribbons, dielectric spacer, and metal substrate. By designing the graphene ribbons and controlling the applied voltage on them, we have obtained single-, double-, and triple-beam steering. In addition, we have also numerically calculated the far-field distributions of the steered multi-beam with a diffraction distance of 2 m. Our design has potential applications in future indoor directional 6G communications.

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