This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $135,000 to William Marsh Rice University, also known as Rice University, to conduct collaborative research on generating and manipulating curved wireless data transmission beams at sub-terahertz frequencies. The research aims to explore solutions for overcoming blockages in wireless propagation at these ultra-high frequencies, which are critical for meeting the growing demand for high-bandwidth wireless applications.
The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year award include fundamental electromagnetic calculations to establish heuristic models for link budgets and the performance of self-accelerating beams, as well as the development of electrically reconfigurable metasurfaces to dynamically generate and adapt these curved wireless beams. The researchers will also investigate strategies for link discovery and the implications of the near-field asymmetry in the wireless channel. This work is expected to open new possibilities for the implementation of high-frequency wireless local area networks, laying the groundwork for future mobile communication systems.
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