A Reconfigurable Multifunctional Metasurface for Full‐Space Control of Electromagnetic Waves

Abstract

AbstractMetasurfaces have attracted much attention in recent years due to their powerful abilities in manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves. However, most of the previously reported metasurfaces are incapable of real‐time control of full‐space EM waves, including transmission, reflection, and absorption at the same time. In this paper, a reconfigurable multifunctional metasurface is proposed that demonstrates real‐time control of transmission, absorption, and reflection of EM waves, which can be continuously controlled from total transmission to total reflection, and to perfect absorption. In the case of total reflection, the reflected waves can be further manipulated in a programmable way by changing the digital coding sequences via bias voltages. Meanwhile, the metasurface can independently control vertical and horizontal polarized waves in broadband. The reconfigurable functionalities of the metasurface are validated by experiments, which agree very well with numerical simulations. In addition, a potential application of the reconfigurable multifunctional metasurface in a stealth radome is proposed and demonstrated.