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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2022

Recent Progress in Reconfigurable and Intelligent Metasurfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Tuning Mechanisms, Hardware Designs, and Applications.

Yasir Saifullah, Yejun He, Amir Boag, Guo-Min Yang, Feng Xu

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Acoustic Metasurface for Space-time Reflection Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yasir SaifullahCollege of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
Yejun HeCollege of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8564-5355
Amir BoagSchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Guo-Min YangKey Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Feng XuKey Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2021M702273National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFA0100203National Natural Science Foundation of China 62071306Shenzhen Science and Technology Program JCYJ20200109113601723Shenzhen Science and Technology Program JSGG20210420091805014Shenzhen Science and Technology Program JSGG20210802154203011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional characteristics, realized by incorporating active elements into the metasurface designs, have huge potential in numerous novel devices and exciting applications. In this article, recent progress in the field of intelligent metasurfaces are reviewed, focusing particularly on tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications. Reconfigurable and programmable metasurfaces, classified as space gradient, time modulated, and space-time modulated metasurfaces, are discussed. Then, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) that can alter their wireless environments, and are considered as a promising technology for sixth-generation communication networks, are explored. Next, the recent progress made in simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) that can achieve full-space EM wave control are summarized. Finally, the perspective on the challenges and future directions of intelligent metasurfaces are presented.

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intelligent metasurfacesmachine learningreconfigurable intelligent surfacessimultaneous transmission and reflectionsixth-generationspace-time modulationtunable

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PMID36117118
PMCPMC9685480

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