Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer transmitting architecture based on asynchronous space-time-coding digital metasurface [Invited]

Zhen Jie Qi; Jun Yan Dai; Si Ran Wang; Qun Yan Zhou; Wankai Tang; Kaicen Wang; Peng Zhang; Shuo Liu; Long Li; Qiang Cheng; Tie Jun Cui

doi:10.3788/COL202321.080005

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 8, 080005(2023)

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer transmitting architecture based on asynchronous space-time-coding digital metasurface [Invited]

Zhen Jie Qi¹, Jun Yan Dai^1,2,3、*, Si Ran Wang¹, Qun Yan Zhou¹, Wankai Tang⁴, Kaicen Wang¹, Peng Zhang^5、**, Shuo Liu^1,2,3, Long Li⁶, Qiang Cheng^1,2,3、***, and Tie Jun Cui^1,2,3、****

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

²Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

³Frontiers Science Center for Mobile Information Communication and Security, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

⁴National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

⁵National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Information Control and Effects, Shenyang 110035, China

⁶Key Laboratory of High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

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