Metasurface-driven Electronic Warfare

Auteur

Rafael Gonçalves Licursi de Mello, PhD, received his PhD from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in Electronics with a focus on reconfigurable metasurfaces and multiband/wideband antennas. Experienced in both hardware and software parts of the EW problem, he has served as Signal Processing Engineer, Senior Signals Intelligence Researcher, and Senior RF Antenna Research Engineer at multiple deep tech companies. He began his career as a Pilot, Radar Operator, and Electronic Warfare Officer in the Maritime Patrol Aviation, where he carried out real EW missions and identified the needs for the scenario of the future.

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"Metasurfaces are the two-dimensional version of metamaterials, which are artificially engineered structures that can provide electromagnetic properties not readily found in nature. In satellite communications, metasurfaces can be used to dynamically steer the beam of ground stations allowing for a real-time tracking of satellites in low-Earth orbit, which moves fast in relation to the Earth's surface. Another example is the 6G technology that will use metasurfaces to collect signals in the environment and focus on specific users dynamically, optimizing the data link wherever we are in the cities. Besides that, metasurface also allows the creation of multiband reflectors that enable low-profile, high-gain, directive antennas that cover several standards of communication at the same time, for instance, 5G/4G/Wi-Fi 2.4/5/6E."--