Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) architecture is commonly applied in wireless sensors or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, providing both wireless power sources and communication channels. However, the traditional SWIPT transmitter usually suffers from cross-talk distortion caused by the high peak-to-average power ratio of the input signal and the reduction of power amplifier efficiency. This paper proposes a SWIPT transmitting architecture based on an asynchronous space-time-coding digital metasurface (ASTCM). High-efficiency simultaneous transfer of information and power is achieved via energy distribution and information processing of the wireless monophonic signal reflected from the metasurface. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method through theoretical derivations and experimental verification, which is therefore believed to have great potential in wireless communications and the IoT devices.

Recent advances of space-time-coding digital metasurfaces demonstrate powerful capabilities in the generation of nonlinear harmonics and the accurate control of the corresponding wavefronts. However, to date the near field manipulation and the experiment characterization are still not explored. In this paper, we propose a space-time-digital coding metasurface to realize accurate manipulation of the near fields at the fundamental and +1st (-1st) harmonics simultaneously, by properly controlling the initial phase and time delay of the time varying reflectivity. A novel mapping system is established to measure the nonlinear near field distributions of multiharmonics. Both the simulation and experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.