Metasurface-Driven Electronic Warfare - by Rafael Goncalves Licursi de Mello (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- About the Author: Rafael Gonçalves Licursi de Mello, PhD, received his PhD from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in Electronics with a focus on reconfigurable metasurfaces for antennas.
- 400 Pages
- Science, Physics
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About the Book
"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."--From the Back Cover
Understand the metasurface revolution in electronic warfare
Electronic warfare (EW) ensures safe usage of the electromagnetic spectrum by one's own forces while denying it to adversaries. Modern warfare is an extraordinarily fluid and dynamic activity, with numerous involved systems reconfigurable at the front or back ends. Metasurfaces, however, are artificially engineered surfaces that promise to take this dynamism to unprecedented levels by making platforms (aircraft, vessels, etc.) and the environment itself reconfigurable - a revolution that even major EW authorities have yet to fully comprehend.
Metasurface-driven Electronic Warfare outlines the parameters of this revolution and its transformative potential in the EW space. Beginning with a historical overview of EW dynamism, it then provides the electromagnetic basics to understand metasurfaces, their operation mechanisms, and capacity for shaping electromagnetic waves. A series of detailed studies of metasurface applications in EW makes this an indispensable guide to an increasingly dynamic battlefield.
Readers will also find:
- Clear cost-benefit analyses of metasurface substitutions in modern EW scenarios
- Detailed discussion of metasurface applications including stealth, electronic support, electronic attack, electronic protection, their use in drone swarms, smart environments, and more
- Simulations of EW scenarios with accompanying MATLAB codes and exercises
Metasurface-driven Electronic Warfare is ideal for EW analysts, specialists, and operators, as well as signals intelligence and electrical engineering researchers and students. Because it covers the essentials in both areas, the book is also appropriate to support graduate courses on metasurfaces or EW.
About the Author
Rafael Gonçalves Licursi de Mello, PhD, received his PhD from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in Electronics with a focus on reconfigurable metasurfaces for antennas. Experienced in both hardware and software parts of the EW problem, he has served as Signal Processing Engineer, Senior Signals Intelligence Researcher, Senior RF Antenna Research Engineer, and Vice-President of RF and Radar Systems 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.
