Metamaterial-Enhanced Devices: Multi-Band and Multi-Polarization Design, Reconfigurability and System Integration

Dear Colleagues,

Metamaterials and their two-dimensional counterparts, also known as metasurfaces, have attracted tremendous interest in recent years. Among their interesting features, they can be easily fabricated by conventional techniques while enabling an exceptional tailoring of electromagnetic waves. Taking advantage of features such as local and space-variant abrupt changes in phase, amplitude, and polarization of reflection and/or transmission, and interaction between distant parts via surface waves (non-locality), a wide field of possibilities can be considered to control electromagnetic wavefronts. Moreover, reconfigurable meta-structures can be achieved by loading electronic components. Such versatile meta-structures are designed for resonance frequency tunability, surface impedance control, and electronically steerable antennas/reflectors, leading to a wide range of controllable devices. Autonomous operation and temporal modulation are the most recent features that are exploited from electronically controlled meta-structures for advanced wavefront manipulation. Nowadays, novel concepts for multifunctional, high-performance, low-complexity or low-cost antennas/devices design are still emerging from new theories, phenomena, and integrations of metamaterials/metasurfaces.

I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue entitled “Metamaterial-Enhanced Devices: Multi-Band and Multi-Polarization Design, Reconfigurability and System Integration” in Microwave, an open access journal from MDPI. The Special Issue welcomes original research, review articles, and technological advancements in the field of metamaterials and metasurfaces for microwave antennas and devices. This Special Issue aims to display the recent advances in the development of passive and reconfigurable meta-structures and their related integration in microwave devices and applications. The scope includes theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions ranging from fundamental research to new designs and ideas for the development of advanced and functional applications of the metamaterial/metasurface concept.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Shah Nawaz Burokur
Guest Editor

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• metamaterial
• metasurface
• antennas
• lenses
• surface plasmons
• non-reciprocity
• holography
• reconfigurability
• polarization
• system integration