Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: interplay of unit cell and surface-level design and performance under quantifiable benchmarks

• Main Authors: Rafique, Ammar, Hassan, Naveed Ul, Zubair, Muhammad, Naqvi, Ijaz Haider, Mehmood, Muhammad Qasim, Renzo, Marco Di, Debbah, Merouane, Yuen, Chau
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; 6G; Unit cell
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173609
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ability of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to produce complex radiation patterns in the far-field is determined by various factors, such as the unit cell's design, spatial arrangement, tuning mechanism, the communication and control circuitry's complexity, and the illuminatin...