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New Metamaterial with Unusual Reflective Property Could Boost your Wi-Fi Signal

A figure from Eleftheriades and Taravati’s research paper shows asymmetric angles in both the forward wave (blue) and the backward, reflected wave (green) striking a metasurface. (Image courtesy: George Eleftheriades)

Engineers have achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light.

Your office wall might play a part in the next generation of wireless communications. University of Toronto Engineering researchers Professor George Eleftheriades and postdoctoral fellow Sajjad Taravati have shown how reflectors made of metamaterials can channel light to enable more wireless data to be transmitted over a single frequency.

They project that this newly realized proper...

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