Deployment of a wearable metasurface with a segmented ground plane

A method, comprising:

• obtaining, by a system comprising at least one processor, first performance characteristics data of a first metasurface design with a continuous ground plane modeled for operation at a defined operating frequency;
• deriving, by the system, a second metasurface design with a discontinuous ground plane corresponding to the first metasurface design, the deriving comprising:
• modeling respective candidate metasurface designs with respective different discontinuous ground plane parameters, comprising respective different combinations of ground discontinuity positions, ground discontinuity sizes, and ground discontinuity quantities;
• determining respective candidate performance characteristics data for the respective candidate metasurface designs;
• evaluating the respective candidate performance characteristics data relative to the first performance characteristics data, to obtain respective difference data;
• and
• outputting, as the second metasurface design for deployment as a metasurface, a selected candidate metasurface design of the respective candidate metasurface designs based on the respective difference data of the selected candidate metasurface design being determined to satisfy a difference criterion, at the defined operating frequency.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining baseline performance characteristics data at a defined operating frequency of a baseline metasurface design comprising a continuous ground plane;
• obtaining respective performance difference data, relative to the baseline performance data, of respective candidate performance characteristics data associated with respective candidate metasurface designs, wherein the respective candidate metasurface designs comprise respective different combinations of ground discontinuity positions, ground discontinuity sizes, and ground discontinuity quantities;
• determining a candidate metasurface design from the respective candidate metasurface based on which of the respective candidate metasurface designs is associated with performance difference data of the respective performance difference data that is greatest at the defined operating frequency, the determining resulting in a selected candidate metasurface design;
• and
• deploying a metasurface for use in a wearable device based on the selected candidate metasurface design.