This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $135,000 to Brown University provides funding for a collaborative research project on "Curving Data Around Obstacles Using Sub-THz Accelerating Beams." The project aims to develop novel wireless communications technology utilizing high-frequency beams that can adapt to obstructions, laying the foundations for the use of self-accelerating beams in mobile wireless local area networks (LANs) operating in the near-field regime. The research explores strategies to create electrically reconfigurable metasurfaces that can generate and manipulate such beams, which could be integrated into a transmitting base station for agile adaptation to transient blockage events. The project period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028.
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