Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Metasurface-assisted massive backscatter wireless communication with commodity Wi-Fi signals

  • Hanting Zhao,
  • Ya Shuang,
  • Menglin Wei,
  • Tie Jun Cui,
  • Philipp del Hougne,
  • Lianlin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17808-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Leveraging the large aperture and huge number of degrees of freedom offered by a programmable metasurface, the authors modulate the propagation environment of existing background commodity Wi-Fi signals to implement a secure and high-speed massive-backscatter communication link.