The pinching-antenna system (PASS) uses dielectric particles along a low-loss waveguide as reconfigurable passive radiators. Existing analyses conclude that the in-waveguide attenuation is negligible at low frequencies and millimeter wave bands; we show this fails at terahertz (THz), where realizable waveguide losses are dramatically larger. We develop a unified wideband THz-PASS propagation model integrating in-waveguide attenuation, atmospheric absorption, molecular re-radiation noise, and beam squint. Closed-form results follow: a band-averaged coherence factor; a cluster-center placement satisfying a band-edge SINR equalization condition; an associated placement-inversion threshold; and a proposed \emph{Switched-Feed PASS} (SF-PASS) architecture in which a centrally located radio-frequency switch routes the signal among multiple waveguide segments, with a closed-form insertion-loss payoff threshold. Numerical evaluation at the best PASS-compatible THz operating point shows that SF-PASS substantially outperforms single-feed PASS in spectral efficiency and is competitive with a large-scale antenna array at much lower hardware costs.
Pinching antenna systems (PASS) employing dielectric waveguides have recently emerged as a promising flexible antenna architecture for high-frequency wireless communications. While prior work has focused primarily on millimeter-wave regimes, extending PASS to the terahertz (THz)…
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