Sergei A. Tretyakov's research while affiliated with Aalto University and other places
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Publications (729)
Metasurfaces enable efficient manipulation of electromagnetic radiation. In practice, control over reflection direction is possibly the most useful. Extensive research has been done in the field of anomalous reflectors over the past years, resulting in numerous introduced geometries and several distinct design approaches. Without a comprehensive co...
Incorporating both gain and loss into electromagnetic systems provides possibilities to engineer effects in unprecedented ways. Concerning electromagnetic effects in isotropic media that have concurrently electric and magnetic responses, there is in fact a degree of freedom to distribute the gain and loss in different effective material parameters....
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are electromagnetically passive controllable structures, deflecting the incident wave beam in directions predefined by the control signal. A usual way to design RIS based on metasurfaces (MSs) is based on the application of the approximation in which the reflective properties of a uniform MS are attributed...
During the last decade, possibilities to realize new phenomena and create new applications by varying system properties in time have gained increasing attention in many research fields. Although the interest in using time-modulation techniques for engineering electromagnetic (EM) response has become revitalized only in recent years, the field origi...
In conventional inductive wireless power devices, the energy is transferred via only reactive near fields, which is equivalent to nonradiative Förster energy transfer in optics. Radiation from transmitting and receiving coils is usually considered as a parasitic effect that reduces the power-transfer efficiency. As long as the distance between the...
Temporal modulation unlocks possibilities to dynamically control and modify the response of electromagnetic systems. Employing explicit dependencies of circuit or surface parameters on time enables the engineering of systems with conventionally unachievable functionalities. Here, we propose an alternative approach that enables the emulation of elec...
Conventional coherent absorption occurs only when two incident beams exhibit mirror symmetry with respect to the absorbing surface, i.e., the two beams have the same incident angles, phases, and amplitudes. This study proposes a more general metasurface paradigm for coherent perfect absorption with impinging waves from arbitrary asymmetric directio...
A perfect anomalous reflector is designed by employing the receiving and scattering array antenna theory to optimize the scattering characteristics of a planar reflecting surface. For periodic reflectors with a supercell consisting of a relatively few reactively loaded radiating elements, reflection amplitudes into propagating Floquet modes are con...
Wave phenomena in bianisotropic media have been broadly studied in classical electrodynamics, as these media offer different degrees of freedom to engineer electromagnetic waves. However, they have been always considered to be stationary (time-invariant) in the studies. Temporally varying the magnetoelectric coupling manifesting bianisotropy engend...
Reconfigurable reflectors have significant potential in future telecommunication systems, and approaches to the design and realization of full and tunable reflection control are now actively studied. Reflectarrays, being the classical approach to realize scanning reflectors, are based on the phased-array theory (the so-called generalized reflection...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are a promising tool for optimization of propagation channels for advanced wireless communication systems. These tools are especially relevant for high-frequency (millimeter-band) links where directive antennas are used. RIS panels act as high-gain passive repeaters, whose reflected waves interfere with the...
Active development is taking place in reconfigurable and static metasurfaces that control and optimize reflections. However, existing designs typically only optimize reflections from the metasurface panels, neglecting interference with reflections originating from supporting walls and nearby objects in realistic scenarios. Moreover, when the area i...
The operational bandwidth of resonant circuits is limited by the resonator's size, which is known as the Chu limit. This limit restricts miniaturization of antennas, as the antenna bandwidth is inversely proportional to its size. Here, we propose slow time modulation of resistive elements to engineer bandwidth of small antennas. The temporal modula...
Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties are uniform in space but periodically vary in time. The synthesis of these materials and experimental observation of their physics remain very challenging because of the stringent requirement for uniform modulation of material properties in volumetric samples. In this...
Temporally varying electromagnetic media have been extensively investigated recently to unveil new means for controlling light. However, spin-dependent phenomena in such media have not been explored thoroughly. Here, we reveal the existence of spin-dependent phenomena at a temporal interface between chiral and dielectric media. In particular, we sh...
Realizing continuous sweeping of perfect anomalous reflection in a wide angular range has become a technical challenge. This challenge cannot be overcome by the conventional aperiodic reflectarrays and periodic metasurfaces or metagratings. In this paper, we investigate means to create scanning reflectarrays for the reflection of plane waves coming...
Engineering and optimization of wireless propagation channels will be one of the key elements of future communication technologies. Metasurfaces may offer a wide spectrum of functionalities for passive and tunable reflecting devices, overcoming fundamental limits of commonly used conventional phase-gradient reflectarrays and metasurfaces. In this p...
In conventional inductive wireless power devices, the energy is transferred via only reactive near fields, which is equivalent to non-radiative F\"orster energy transfer in optics. Radiation from transmitting and receiving coils is usually considered as a parasitic effect that reduces the power transfer efficiency. As long as the distance between t...
One of the main advantages of reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces is their capability to produce asymmetric scattering depending from which side they are illuminated and on the handedness of circularly polarized illuminations. For most applications, these metasurfaces are designed for illumination by a single source at a time. The resulting biani...
Static reactive metasurfaces allow excitation and propagation of surface waves. In this paper, we theoretically elucidate how surface-wave propagation along a reactive boundary is affected by temporal discontinuities of effective parameters characterizing the boundary. First, we show that by switching the value of the surface reactance, the velocit...
Generalized duality transformations significantly modify the constitutive relations of electromagnetic media, preserving principal electromagnetic properties. Here, we contemplate transformation of Tellegen nihility as a specific type of extreme-property nonreciprocal bi-isotropic media and show that some intriguing electromagnetic properties of th...
Conventional coherent absorption occurs only when two incident beams exhibit mirror symmetry with respect to the absorbing surface, i.e., the two beams have the same incident angles, phases, and amplitudes. In this work, we propose a more general metasurface paradigm for coherent perfect absorption, with impinging waves from arbitrary asymmetric di...
Metasurfaces providing resonances arising from quasibound states in the continuum have been proposed as sensors in the THz band due to the existence of strong resonances characterized by high-quality factors. Controlling geometrical parameters, the quality factor can be adjusted and, theoretically, designed at will. However, losses in materials cri...
Metasurfaces enable efficient manipulation of electromagnetic radiation. In particular, control over plane-wave reflection is one of the most useful features in many applications. Extensive research has been done in the field of anomalous reflectors over the past years, resulting in numerous introduced geometries and several distinct design approac...
Breaking the so-called diffraction limit on the resolution of optical devices and achieving subwavelength focusing requires tailoring the evanescent spectrum of wave fields. There are several possible approaches, all of which have limitations, such as the generation of strong additional scattering, limited focusing power, issues at the implementati...
Engineering and optimization of wireless propagation channels will be one of the key elements of future communication technologies. Metasurfaces may offer a wide spectrum of functionalities for passive and tunable reflecting devices, overcoming fundamental limits of commonly used conventional phase-gradient reflectarrays and metasurfaces. In this p...
Realizing continuous sweeping of perfect anomalous reflection in a wide angular range has become a technical challenge. This challenge cannot be overcome by the conventional aperiodic reflectarrays and periodic metasurfaces or metagratings. In this paper, we investigate means to create scanning reflectarrays for the reflection of plane waves coming...
Exploring the interaction of light with time-varying media is an intellectual challenge that, in addition to fundamental aspects, provides a pathway to multiple promising applications. Time modulation constitutes here a fundamental handle to control light on entirely different grounds. That holds particularly for complex systems simultaneously stru...
p>Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are a promising tool for optimization of propagation channels for advanced wireless communication systems. These tools are especially relevant for high-frequency (millimeter-band) links where directive antennas are used. RIS panels act as high-gain passive repeaters, whose reflected waves interfere with t...
p>Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are a promising tool for optimization of propagation channels for advanced wireless communication systems. These tools are especially relevant for high-frequency (millimeter-band) links where directive antennas are used. RIS panels act as high-gain passive repeaters, whose reflected waves interfere with t...
During the last decade, possibilities to realize new phenomena and create new applications by varying system properties in time have gained increasing attention in many research fields, spanning a wide range from acoustics to optics. While the interest in using time-modulation techniques for engineering electromagnetic response has got revitalized...
We provide a theoretical description of light scattering by a spherical particle the permittivity of which is modulated in time at twice the frequency of the incident light. Such a particle acts as a finite-sized photonic time crystal and, despite its subwavelength spatial extent, can host optical parametric amplification. Conditions of parametric...
Operational bandwidth of resonant circuits is limited by the resonator's size, which is known as the Chu limit. This limit restricts miniaturization of antennas, as the antenna bandwidth is inversely proportional to its size. Here, we propose slow time modulation of resistive elements to engineer bandwidth of small antennas. The temporal modulation...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted major attention in the last few years, due to their useful characteristics. An RIS is a nearly passive thin surface that can dynamically change the reradiated field and can therefore realize anomalous reflection, refraction, focalization, or other wave transformations for engineering the rad...
Megahertz-range wireless power transfer has become a promising approach for increasing spatial freedom of charging. This article proposes a cylindrical-shaped coil, which can produce the homogeneous magnetic field in a plane. The coil consists of two helical windings, which are wound to guide the current in opposite directions. A single power sourc...
Results of experimental characterization of anomalous reflectors of two types (conventional phase-gradient metasurface and non-local metasurface) are presented. Measured results are compared with analytical and numerical models.
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to dynamically control the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications, RISs have recently emerged as a promising technology for realizing programmable and reconfigurable wireless propagation environments through nearly passive signal transformations. With the...
Wireless connectivity is regarded as a fundamental need for our society. Between 2020 and 2030, it is forecast that the data traffic of the global internet protocol will increase by 55% each year, eventually reaching 5016 EB, with data rates scaling up to 1 Tb/s. Besides supporting very high data rates, future wireless networks are expected to offe...
Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties are uniform in space but periodically vary in time. The synthesis of such materials and experimental observation of their physics remain very challenging. In this work, we extend the concept of photonic time crystals to metasurfaces. We demonstrate that time-varying me...
In this paper, we investigate the scattering of surface waves on reactive impedance boundaries when the surface impedance undergoes a sudden change in time. We report three exotic wave phenomena. First, it is shown that by switching the value of the surface capacitance of the boundary, the velocity of surface waves can be fully controlled, and the...
The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for optimization of propagation channels is one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for improving efficiency of the next generation of communications systems. In this article, we combine physical optics approximation and the theory of diffraction gratings to study the scattering...
Exact solutions for perfect anomalous reflection through metasurfaces have been recently developed in terms of both ideal nondispersive impenetrable boundary conditions (BCs) and penetrable BCs on top of a grounded slab. The second model is more accurate for the description of metasurfaces realized in PCB technology. Focusing on this particular cla...
To achieve omnidirectional wireless power transfer (WPT), it is crucial to tune the direction of the total magnetic field from the transmitter (Tx) coils toward the receiver coil (Rx) that can be placed at different positions with respect to Tx. Several methods, such as amplitude modulation, phase-shifting, and frequency modulation, have been propo...
Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multifunctional and reconfigurable metasurface can be realized, capable of full control over incident radiation. Here, we experimentally val...
Known coherent metasurfaces control the interference of waves of a given frequency with other coherent waves at the same frequency, either illuminating from a different direction or created as intermodulation products. In this paper, we introduce a class of metasurfaces that are modulated in time coherently with the illuminating radiation. Such mod...
Metasurfaces providing resonances arising from quasi-bound states in the continuum have been proposed as sensors in the THz band due to the existence of strong resonances characterized by high quality factors. Controlling geometrical parameters, the quality factor can be adjusted and, theoretically, designed at will. However, losses in materials cr...
One of the main advantages of reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces is their capability to produce asymmetric scattering depending from which side they are illuminated. For most applications, these metasurfaces are expected to be illuminated with a single source at a time. However, it can be foreseen that under simultaneous illumination by two or m...
Invariance under time translation (or stationarity) is probably one of the most important assumptions made when investigating electromagnetic phenomena. Breaking this assumption is expected to open up novel possibilities and result in exceeding conventional limitations. However, to explore the field of time-varying electromagnetic structures, we pr...
Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multi-functional and reconfigurable metasurface can be realized, capable of full control over incident radiation. Here, we experimentally va...
Recently, time-varying electromagnetic structures have been extensively investigated to unveil new physical phenomena. In this direction, one of the important and historical topics is studying temporal discontinuities in these structures. Here, we consider fast changes of bianisotropic media. Specifically, we focus on introducing a temporal interfa...
Waveguide characterization of dielectric materials is a convenient and broadband approach for measuring dielectric constant. In conventional microwave measurements, material samples are usually mechanically shaped to fit waveguide opening and measured in closed waveguides. This method is not practical for millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave mea...
Most applications of metasurfaces require excitation and control of both electric and magnetic surface currents. For such purposes, the metasurface must have a finite thickness to handle magnetic surface currents. For metasurface sheets of negligible thickness that offer only electric response, coherent illumination can compensate the need to creat...
We provide a theoretical description of light scattering by a spherical particle whose permittivity is modulated in time at twice the frequency of the incident light. Such a particle acts as a finite-sized photonic time crystal and, despite its sub-wavelength spatial extent, can host optical parametric amplification. Conditions of parametric Mie re...
Reconfigurable reflectors have a significant potential in future telecommunication systems, and approaches to the design and realization of full and tunable reflection control are now actively studied. Reflectarrays, being the classical approach to realization of scanning reflectors, are based on the phased-array theory (the so-called generalized r...
One of the main challenges in wireless power transfer (WPT) devices is performance degradation when the receiver’s position and characteristics vary. Therefore, the load resistance and receiver position must be monitored to ensure proper optimization of power transfer. This study proposes a machine learning (ML) assisted method that estimates the p...
Most applications of metasurfaces require excitation and control of both electric and magnetic surface currents. For such purpose, the metasurface must have a finite thickness to handle magnetic surface currents. For metasurface sheets of negligible thickness that offer only electric response, coherent illumination can compensate the need to create...
Many advances in reflective metasurfaces have been made during the last few years, implementing efficient manipulations of wave fronts, especially for plane waves. Despite numerous solutions that have been developed throughout the years, a practical method to obtain subwavelength focusing without the generation of additional undesired scattering is...
This Roadmap takes the reader on a journey through the research in electromagnetic wave propagation control via reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Meta-surface modelling and design methods are reviewed along with physical realisation techniques. Several wireless applications are discussed, including beam-forming, focusing, imaging, localisation,...
Adding active components to a photonic device may dramatically enrich and improve its performance but, at the same time, creates the risk of instability, namely, occurrence of unwanted self-oscillations. Stability considerations are not always given the attention they deserve when setups employing gain media are investigated; thus, the desired effe...
Wireless power transfer—the transmission of electromagnetic energy without physical connectors such as wires or waveguides—typically exploits electromagnetic field control methods that were first proposed decades ago and requires some essential parameters (such as efficiency) to be sacrificed in favour of others (such as stability). In recent years...
Exploring the interaction of light with time-varying media is an intellectual challenge that, in addition to fundamental aspects, provides a pathway to multiple promising applications. Time modulation constitutes here a fundamental handle to control light on entirely different grounds. That holds particularly for complex systems simultaneously stru...
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to dynamically control the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications, RISs have recently emerged as a promising technology for realizing programmable and reconfigurable wireless propagation environments through nearly passive signal transformations. With the...
div>The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for optimization of propagation channels is one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for improving the efficiency of the next generation of communications systems. In this work, we combine the physical optics approximation and the theory of diffraction gratings to study the s...
div>The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for optimization of propagation channels is one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for improving the efficiency of the next generation of communications systems. In this work, we combine the physical optics approximation and the theory of diffraction gratings to study the s...