Transmissive RIS for 6G Communications: Design, Prototyping, and Experimental Demonstrations

06/30/2022
by   Junwen Tang, et al.
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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely considered as a key technique to improve spectral efficiency for 6G communications. Compared with most existing research that only focuses on the reflective RIS, the design and prototyping of a novel transmissive RIS are presented in this paper, and its enhancement to the RIS-aided communication system is experimentally demonstrated. The 2-bit transmissive RIS element utilizes the penetration structure, which combines a 1-bit current reversible dipole and a 90 digital phase shifter based on a quadrature hybrid coupler. A transmissive RIS prototype with 16×16 elements is designed, fabricated, and measured to verify the proposed design. The measured phase shift and insertion loss of the RIS element validate the 2-bit phase modulation capability. Being illuminated by a horn feed, the prototype achieves a maximum broadside gain of 22.0 dBi at 27 GHz, and the two-dimensional beamforming capability with scan angles up to ±60 is validated. The experimental results of the RIS-aided communication system verify that by introducing the extra gain and beam steering capability, the transmissive RIS is able to achieve a higher data rate, reduce the transmit power, improve the transmission capability through obstacles, and dynamically adapt to the signal propagation direction.

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