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Wenjing Yan

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arXiv2019

Passive Beamforming and Information Transfer via Large Intelligent Surface

Large intelligent surface (LIS) has emerged as a promising new solution to improve the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless networks. A LIS, composed of a large number of low-cost and energy-efficient reconfigurable passive reflecting elements, enhances wireless communications by reflecting impinging electro-magnetic waves. In this paper, we propose a novel passive beamforming and information transfer (PBIT) technique, in which the LIS simultaneously enhances the primary communication and sends information to the receiver. We develop a passive beamforming method to improve the average receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).We also establish a two-step approach at the receiver to retrieve the information from both the transmitter and the LIS. Numerical results show that the proposed PBIT system, especially with the optimized passive beamforming, significantly outperforms the system without LIS enhancement. Furthermore, a tradeoff between the passive-beamforming gain and the information rate of the LIS has been demonstrated.

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arXiv2019

Semi-Blind Channel-and-Signal Estimation for Uplink Massive MIMO With Channel Sparsity

This paper considers the transceiver design for uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with channel sparsity in the angular domain. Recent progress has shown that sparsity-learning-based blind signal detection is able to retrieve the channel and data by using massage-passing based sparse matrix factorization methods. Short pilots sequences are inserted into user packets to eliminate the so-called phase and permutation ambiguities inherent in sparse matrix factorization. In this paper, to exploit the knowledge of these short pilot sequences more efficiently, we propose a semi-blind channel-and-signal estimation (SCSE) scheme in which the knowledge of the pilot sequences are integrated into the message passing algorithm for sparse matrix factorization. The SCSE algorithm involves enumeration over all possible user permutations, and so is time-consuming when the number of users is relatively large. To reduce complexity, we further develop the simplified SCSE (S-SCSE) to accommodate systems with a large number of users. We show that our semi-blind signal detection scheme substantially outperforms the state-of-the-art blind detection and training-based schemes in the short-pilot regime.

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arXiv2017

Large room temperature spin-to-charge conversion signals in a few-layer graphene/Pt lateral heterostructure

Electrical generation and detection of pure spin currents without the need of magnetic materials are key elements for the realization of full electrically controlled spintronic devices. In this framework, achieving a large spin-to-charge conversion signal is crucial, since considerable outputs are needed for plausible applications. Unfortunately, the values obtained so far have been rather low. Here we exploit the spin Hall effect by using Pt, a non-magnetic metal with strong spin-orbit coupling, to generate and detect pure spin currents in a few-layer graphene channel. Furthermore, the outstanding properties of graphene, with long distance spin transport and higher electrical resistivity than metals, allows us to achieve in our graphene/Pt lateral heterostructures the largest spin-to-charge voltage signal at room temperature reported so far in the literature. Our approach opens up exciting opportunities towards the implementation of spin-orbit-based logic circuits and all electrical control of spin information without magnetic field.

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arXiv2017

Ultra-confined acoustic THz graphene plasmons revealed by photocurrent nanoscopy

Terahertz (THz) fields are widely applied for sensing, communication and quality control. In future applications, they could be efficiently confined, enhanced and manipulated - well below the classical diffraction limit - through the excitation of graphene plasmons (GPs). These possibilities emerge from the strongly reduced GP wavelength, lp, compared to the photon wavelength, l0, which can be controlled by modulating the carrier density of graphene via electrical gating. Recently, GPs in a graphene-insulator-metal configuration have been predicted to exhibit a linear dispersion (thus called acoustic plasmons) and a further reduced wavelength, implying an improved field confinement, analogous to plasmons in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) near conductive substrates. While infrared GPs have been visualised by scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), the real-space imaging of strongly confined THz plasmons in graphene and 2DEGs has been elusive so far - only GPs with nearly free-space wavelength have been observed. Here we demonstrate real-space imaging of acoustic THz plasmons in a graphene photodetector with split-gate architecture. To that end, we introduce nanoscale-resolved THz photocurrent near-field microscopy, where near-field excited GPs are detected thermoelectrically rather than optically. The on-chip GP detection simplifies GP imaging, as sophisticated s-SNOM detection schemes can be avoided. The photocurrent images reveal strongly reduced GP wavelengths (lp = l0/66), a linear dispersion resulting from the coupling of GPs with the metal gate below the graphene, and that plasmon damping at positive carrier densities is dominated by Coulomb impurity scattering. Acoustic GPs could thus strongly benefit the development of deep subwavelength-scale THz devices.

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arXiv2016

Competing effects at Pt/YIG interfaces: spin Hall magnetoresistance, magnon excitations and magnetic frustration

We study the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) and the magnon spin transport (MST) in Pt/Y3Fe5O12(YIG)-based devices with intentionally modified interfaces. Our measurements show that the surface treatment of the YIG film results in a slight enhancement of the spin-mixing conductance and an extraordinary increase in the efficiency of the spin-to-magnon excitations at room temperature. The surface of the YIG film develops a surface magnetic frustration at low temperatures, causing a sign change of the SMR and a dramatic suppression of the MST. Our results evidence that SMR and MST could be used to explore magnetic properties of surfaces, including those with complex magnetic textures, and stress the critical importance of the non-magnetic/ferromagnetic interface properties in the performance of the resulting spintronic devices.

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arXiv2016

A two-dimensional spin field-effect transistor

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin current for logic operations. The approach followed so far, inspired by the seminal proposal of the Datta and Das spin modulator, has relied on the spin-orbit field as a medium for electrical control of the spin state. However, the still standing challenge is to find a material whose spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) is weak enough to transport spins over long distances, while also being strong enough to allow their electrical manipulation. Here we demonstrate a radically different approach by engineering a heterostructure from atomically thin crystals, which are "glued" by weak van der Waals (vdW) forces and which combine the superior spin transport properties of graphene with the strong SOC of the semiconducting MoS$_{2}$. The spin transport in the graphene channel is modulated between ON and OFF states by tuning the spin absorption into the MoS$_{2}$ layer with a gate electrode. Our demonstration of a spin field-effect transistor using two-dimensional (2D) materials identifies a new route towards spin logic operations for beyond CMOS technology.

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