Designing, Building, and Characterizing RF Switch-based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

2022/07/14 by Rossanese, Marco, Mursia, Placido, Garcia-Saavedra, Andres +3 · 2 citations
#FOS: Electrical engineering #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.07121

Abstract

In this paper, we present our experience designing, prototyping, and empirically characterizing RF Switch-based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). Our RIS design comprises arrays of patch antennas, delay lines and programmable radio-frequency (RF) switches that enable passive 3D beamforming, i.e., without active RF components. We implement this design using PCB technology and low-cost electronic components, and thoroughly validate our prototype in a controlled environment with high spatial resolution codebooks. Finally, we make available a large dataset with a complete characterization of our RIS and present the costs associated with reproducing our design.

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