Bending microwave ‘Airy beams’ like Beckham

Bending microwave ‘Airy beams’ like Beckham

The researchers used a specially designed metasurface to direct the Airy beam transmissions. Credit: Aaron Nathans/Princeton University Like a football sent curving around an opposing team’s players and into their goal during a free kick, researchers are bending a type of high-energy microwave radiation around solid obstacles to unlock new bandwidths for wireless data transmission. “As our world becomes more connected and data-hungry, the demand…