Funding entity and duration: Generalitat Valenciana, 2021-2025.
Summary of the project: The objective of the project is the design of artificial materials (metamaterials or metasurfaces) aimed to exhibit singular or unusual properties when interacting with electromagnetic waves (e.g., reflections, transmissions, and unusual dispersion of the waves). The materials will be designed to operate at the mm-Wave and sub-THz band and will be created using an in-house-developed advanced mathematical optimization code, which will be able to optimize the position of microscopic elements embedded in a macroscopic substrate. These novel materials will be fabricated and tested in the APL facilities at iTEAM. The materials will allow to gain a greater control of the environment of the radio signal propagation, being the objective to create a smart environment around the user for the 6G communication signal propagation.