Generalized Analysis and Unified Design of EM Skins

A generalized formulation is derived for the analysis of the field manipulation properties of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) in the working regimes of interest for wireless communications. Based on such a theoretical framework, a unified method for the design of anomalous-reflecting and focusing EMSs is presented. Representative results, from a wide set of numerical experiments, are reported and validated with full-wave HFSS simulations to give the interested readers some insights on the accuracy, effectiveness, and computational efficiency of the proposed analysis/synthesis tools.

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A generalized formulation is proposed for the analysis of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) in wireless communications. A unified method for designing anomalous-reflecting and focusing EMSs is presented based on this framework. Numerical experiments and full-wave HFSS simulations are conducted to validate the proposed analysis/synthesis tools.