5G/6G wave efficient window glass utilising surface mount passive metasurface for enhancing microwave transmission

Abstract

Energy efficiency is fundamentally concerned in 5G/6G communication systems. Window glass considers mainly thermal energy efficiency, and it does not consider microwave efficiency too much for wireless communications, particularly in the fixed wireless access scenario, where the window glass is the only non-destructive microwave wireless propagation path between the transmitter outside the house and the signal receiver inside. Regular window glasses induce severe reflections and large penetration loss, resulting in low energy efficiency for 5G/6G communications. This paper provides a new paradigm to obtain the wave efficient window glass with designing the passive and transparent metasurface. Thanks to the glass-metasurface adjoint model and the ABCD-field adjoint analysis, it is not only appropriate for known glasses with detailed dimensions, materials etc, but also compatible with unknown pre-existing glasses such as an encrypted glass model. Moreover, the metasurface design is quite applicable for pre-existing glasses with surface mounting process, rather than the regular integrated manufacturing process in which new glasses and metasurfaces are designed and manufactured together. Spectral transmission enhancement induced by the proposed metasurface is measured, validating the effectiveness of the proposed method. In addition, surface mount process and the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) location are discussed for a limited space. Due to the passive, and low carbon design of the metasurface, the wave efficient glass can be easily obtained, and is compatible with the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) or RIS (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface) for 5G/6G communications.