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most citedBuilding a Smart EM Environment -- AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins

84 citations · 524 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.SY2025

One-Time Programmable Passive Electromagnetic Skins

Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Aaron Angel Salas Sancez +1

The implementation of simple, inexpensive, and mass-production-oriented solutions for smart electromagnetic environments (SEMEs) is dealt with by introducing the concept of "one-ti…

eess.SY2025

Time-Modulated EM Skins for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Lorenzo Poli, Aakash Bansal, Giacomo Oliveri +3

An innovative solution, based on the exploitation of the harmonic beams generated by time-modulated electromagnetic skins (TM-EMSs), is proposed for the implementation of integrate…

eess.SP2024

Unconventional Array Design in the Autocorrelation Domain -- Isophoric 1D Thinning

Lorenzo Poli, Giacomo Oliveri, Nicola Anselmi +3

The synthesis of thinned isophoric arrays (TIAs) radiating mask-constrained patterns is addressed. By leveraging on the recently-introduced formulation of the design of antenna arr…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

On the Improvement of the Performance of Inexpensive Electromagnetic Skins by means of an Inverse Source Design Approach

Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Andrea Massa

A new methodology for the improvement of the performance of inexpensive static passive electromagnetic skins (SP-EMSs) is presented. The proposed approach leverages on the non-uniq…

eess.SY2024

Synthesis of Wide-Angle Scanning Arrays through Array Power Control

Pietro Rosatti, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

A new methodology for the synthesis of wide-angle scanning arrays is proposed. It is based on the formulation of the array design problem as a multi-objective one where, for each s…

eess.SY2023

Memory-Enhanced Dynamic Evolutionary Control of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Francesco Zardi, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

An innovative evolutionary method for the dynamic control of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is proposed. It leverages, on the one hand, on the exploration capabilities…

eess.SP2023

Reconfigurable and Static EM Skins on Vehicles for Localization

Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi, Giacomo Oliveri +2

Electromagnetic skins (EMSs) have been recently considered as a booster for wireless sensing, but their usage on mobile targets is relatively novel and could be of interest when th…

eess.SP2023★ 24 cited

Optically-Transparent EM Skins for Outdoor-to-Indoor mm-Wave Wireless Communications

Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Andrea Massa

Optically-transparent opportunistic electromagnetic skins (OTO-EMSs) are proposed to enable outdoor-to-indoor (O2I) millimiter-wave (mmW) wireless communications with existing wind…

eess.SP2022★ 20 cited

Multi-Scaling Differential Contraction Integral Method for Inverse Scattering Problems with Inhomogeneous Media

Yu Zhong, Francesco Zardi, Marco Salucci +2

Practical applications of microwave imaging often require the solution of inverse scattering problems with inhomogeneous backgrounds. Towards this end, a novel inversion strategy,…

eess.SY2022★ 24 cited

Features and Potentialities of Static Passive EM Skins for NLOS Specular Wireless Links

Giacomo Oliveri, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

The ability of passive flat patterned electromagnetic skins (EMSs) to overcome the asymptotic limit of the total path attenuation (TPA) of flat metallic reflectors of arbitrary siz…

eess.SY2022★ 36 cited

Generalized Analysis and Unified Design of EM Skins

Giacomo Oliveri, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

A generalized formulation is derived for the analysis of the field manipulation properties of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) in the working regimes of interest for wireless communica…

eess.SP2022★ 43 cited

Multi-Scale Single-Bit RP-EMS Synthesis for Advanced Propagation Manipulation through System-by-Design

G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci +2

A new method for synthesizing Single-Bit Reconfigurable Passive Electromagnetic Skins (1RP-EMSs) featuring advanced beam shaping capabilities is proposed. By using single-bit unit…

eess.SY2021★ 73 cited

Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas

Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri +3

The optimal planning of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) installed on the building facades to enhance the received signal strength, thus the wireless coverage and/or the quality-of-ser…

eess.SY2021★ 61 cited

On the Design of Modular Reflecting EM Skins for Enhanced Urban Wireless Coverage

Paolo Rocca, Pietro Da Rù, Nicola Anselmi +4

The design of modular, passive, and static artificial metasurfaces to be used as electromagnetic skins (EMSs) of buildings for improving the coverage in urban millimeter-wave commu…

eess.SY2021★ 84 cited

Building a Smart EM Environment -- AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins

Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Paolo Rocca +2

An innovative process for the design of static passive smart skins (SPSSs) is proposed to take into account, within the synthesis, the electromagnetic (EM) interactions due to thei…

physics.app-ph2021★ 48 cited

On the Use of Nonlinear Metasurfaces for Circumventing Fundamental Limits of Mantle Cloaking for Antennas

Stefano Vellucci, Alessio Monti, Mirko Barbuto +4

The aim of this communication is to investigate and demonstrate the possibility to overcome the fundamental limitations of mantle cloaking for antennas by exploiting nonlinear meta…

quant-ph2021

Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Computing

Paolo Rocca, Nicola Anselmi, Giacomo Oliveri +2

Thinning antenna arrays through quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is proposed. Given the lattice of the candidate locations for the array elements, the problem of selecting which ant…

eess.SY2021

Holographic Smart EM Skins for Advanced Beam Power Shaping in Next Generation Wireless Environments

Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci +1

An innovative approach for the synthesis of inexpensive holographic smart electromagnetic (EM) skins with advanced beamforming features is proposed. The complex multiscale smart sk…

cs.IT2021★ 14 cited

Capacity-Driven Low-Interference Fast Beam Synthesis for Next Generation Base Stations

G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, N. Anselmi +1

The problem of the real-time multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array control when requirements on capacity performance, out-of-cell interference, and computational efficiency a…

eess.SP2021★ 22 cited

SbD-Based Synthesis of Low-Profile WAIM Superstrates for Printed Patch Arrays

G. Oliveri, A. Polo, M. Salucci +2

An innovative strategy for the design of low-profile wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) superstrates to active return loss (ARL) stability of scanned microstrip-printed periodic…

physics.app-ph2021★ 7 cited

Conformal Transformation Electromagnetics Based on Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping for the Synthesis of Doubly Connected Metalenses

M. Salucci, F. Boulos, A. Polo +1

An innovative transformation electromagnetics (TE) paradigm, which leverages on the Schwarz-Christoffel (SC) theorem, is proposed to design effective and realistic field manipulati…

eess.SP2021★ 23 cited

Autocorrelation-Driven Synthesis of Antenna Arrays -- The Case of DS-Based Planar Isophoric Thinned Arrays

G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, M. A. Hannan +2

A new methodology for the design of isophoric thinned arrays with a priori controlled pattern features is introduced. A fully analytical and general (i.e., valid for any lattice an…

eess.SY2021★ 21 cited

Minimum-Complexity Failure Correction in Linear Arrays via Compressive Processing

F. Zardi, G. Oliveri, M. Salucci +1

Given an array with defective elements, failure correction (FC) aims at finding a new set of weights for the working elements so that the properties of the original pattern can be…

cs.IT2021★ 23 cited

A Total-Variation Sparseness-Promoting Method for the Synthesis of Contiguously Clustered Linear Arrays

N. Anselmi, G. Gottardi, G. Oliveri +1

By exploiting an innovative total-variation compressive sensing (TV-CS) formulation, a new method for the synthesis of physically contiguous clustered linear arrays is presented. T…