Future wireless communications infrastructure is advancing at a rapid rate and one of those notable advancements is through various metamaterials, namely, Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). RIS offers the wireless industry a significant number of tangible benefits for millimetre wave and traditional sub-6 Ghz wireless systems. RIS surfaces provide a potential solution for challenging coverage issues through configurable reflection/refraction/scattering patterns in the millimeter wave range in particular.

Alongside Anritsu, NPL are hosting the first UK RIS focussed workshop to demonstrate and discuss how RIS can help address future telecoms infrastructure needs. On show will be NPL’s patented Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology which has successfully completed field trials on a live 5G base station at BT’s Adastral Park. Developed and built at NPL, this breakthrough innovation demonstrated powerful signal control capabilities, offering a scalable, energy-efficient solution to enhance 5G and enable future 6G networks.

Agenda:

• Welcome & Opening Remarks

• Novel metamaterial and meta surface based antennas in millimetre and THz bands and how they are Enabling Technologies Research Advances

• Understanding Mono, Pseudo, and True Bi-statics measurements and various related applications using Distributed VNA concept

• Policy & Infrastructure Enablers

• Metamaterial RIS Demo’s

• Scaling Reflective Intelligent Surfaces for Real World Deployment: Roundtable Discussion

• Breaking the Commercial Barrier

• 6G initiatives & Metamaterials

• Metamaterials in the Real World Use

• Closing Remarks

• Networking Drinks Reception

IQST, National Physical Laboratory,

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