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Electromagnetic Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: From Design to Applications
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Electromagnetic Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: From Design to Applications

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 2098

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Meng Wang

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1. Wuxi Campus, Southeast University, Wuxi 214127, China
2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Interests: metamaterials; metasurfaces; spoof surface plasmon polaritons; leaky-wave antennas; metamaterial antennas; array antennas
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Dr. Jun Wang

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School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: spoof surface plasmon polaritons; filter; leaky-wave Antenna; microwave device
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Dr. Haoran Zu

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Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: antenna; spoof surface plasmon polaritons; flexible microwave devices; transparent EM devices
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces have revolutionized electromagnetic wave manipulation, enabling unprecedented control over amplitude, phase, reflection, refraction, polarization, and other characteristics. These artificial structures, with tailored subwavelength designs, find applications in antennas, cloaking devices, sensors, and wireless communication systems. Recent advancements encompass novel physical phenomena, new material properties, functional device innovations, and system integration across microwave to optical regimes.

This Special Issue invites research papers, short communications, and reviews on:

  • Novel physical phenomena and their mechanistic elucidation.
  • Metamaterial functional devices with improved performance metrics, including but not limited to antennas, filters, amplifiers, etc.
  • Applications in communications, radar, sensing, energy harvesting, and related fields.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Meng Wang
Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. Haoran Zu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • microwave metamaterials/metasurfaces
  • multifunctional metamaterials/metasurfaces
  • reconfigurable intelligence metasurfaces (RISs)
  • topological metamaterials/metasurfaces
  • terahertz metamaterials/metasurfaces
  • optical metamaterials/metasurfaces
  • spoof surface plasmon polaritons

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Electromechanical Characteristics Analysis of Magnetic Shield on Superconducting Magnetic Levitation Train
by Mingyuan Hu, Lei Zhang, Ran Tao and Ping Wang
Micromachines 2025, 16(11), 1248; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16111248 - 31 Oct 2025
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The guest room and aisle of electric high-speed maglev train must be shielded from leakage magnetic flux produced by superconducting strong magnetic field. To reduce magnetic leakage, the superconducting magnetic levitation system structure is obtained by extended lagrangian optimization method. The optimized superconducting [...] Read more.
The guest room and aisle of electric high-speed maglev train must be shielded from leakage magnetic flux produced by superconducting strong magnetic field. To reduce magnetic leakage, the superconducting magnetic levitation system structure is obtained by extended lagrangian optimization method. The optimized superconducting coil structure has the advantages of reducing magnetic leakage, improving magnetic field utilization, reducing the weight of the magnetic isolation plate and the weight of the maglev train, and enhancing the load-bearing capacity of the maglev train. Based on optimized superconducting coil parameters for high-speed maglev, the magnetic shielding effect at the aisle and the guest room, the magnetic flux density distribution at the magnetic shielding is calculated and analyzed through analytical calculation. The relevant conclusions indicate that the magnetic suspension structure has the advantages of reducing end coil leakage flux and the weight of the high-speed maglev train. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electromagnetic Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: From Design to Applications)
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Design of N-Way Power Divider Based on TE10 Mode Splitting Strategy
by Jianfeng Chen, Haidi Tang, Shengqi Zhang and Leijun Xu
Micromachines 2025, 16(9), 1033; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16091033 - 10 Sep 2025
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This paper presents a novel 1-to-N power division architecture combining overmoded TE10 mode waveguides and modular N-way waveguide-to-microstrip mode converters. By decomposing the TE10 mode field distribution along the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide, the proposed design enables [...] Read more.
This paper presents a novel 1-to-N power division architecture combining overmoded TE10 mode waveguides and modular N-way waveguide-to-microstrip mode converters. By decomposing the TE10 mode field distribution along the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide, the proposed design enables flexible power splitting into arbitrary output ports (even or odd numbers) through uniform sub-TE10-mode waveguide pathways. To achieve the above function using microwave transmission lines, a tapered transition structure ensures wideband excitation of the overmoded waveguide, while linearly tapered slot antennas (LTSAs) serve as N-way mode converters. Prototypes with two-, three-, and four-channel outputs demonstrate excellent amplitude-phase uniformity (≤0.5 dB amplitude imbalance and ≤5∘ phase deviation) across 6.5–12 GHz, with return loss <−10 dB. The modular 1-to-N power divider enables the rapid reconfiguration of output channels by simply replacing the mode converter module. Full article
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Wireless Communication Using a Radiation-Type Metasurface
by Jun Chen Ke, Li Wang, Mingzhu Jiang and Qiang Wang
Micromachines 2025, 16(8), 924; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16080924 - 11 Aug 2025
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The rapid development of metasurfaces offers new possibilities to establish novel wireless communication systems with simplified architectures. However, the current demonstration systems are based on the reflection-type metasurfaces, which suffer from high profiles and integration challenges in practice. Such configurations are also inefficient [...] Read more.
The rapid development of metasurfaces offers new possibilities to establish novel wireless communication systems with simplified architectures. However, the current demonstration systems are based on the reflection-type metasurfaces, which suffer from high profiles and integration challenges in practice. Such configurations are also inefficient for handling multiple subcarriers during beam scanning and beam tracking. To address these limitations, a radiation-type metasurface fed by a microstrip array antenna is proposed in this paper, which is used to construct a new-architecture wireless communication system. Compared to the reported metasurface-based communication systems, the proposed design is more flexible for information modulation and transmission, with the system profile significantly reduced. The phase modulation is implemented by changing the transmission phase of metasurface, allowing for baseband signals to be directly imparted to the carrier wave from the feeding source. A real-time signal transmission experiment validates the performance of the proposed metasurface-based communication system. Full article
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