人工局域表面等离激元是一种基于表面等离激元超材料的电磁谐振模式，在微波、毫米波和太赫兹频段可实现深亚波长场束缚、高品质因子、高介电灵敏度等优异传感特性，并且与平面印刷电路工艺兼容，易于和信号检测电路、无线通信电路集成，因此在小型化便携式的物联传感领域展现出广阔的应用前景。本文重点介绍人工局域表面等离激元传感的新原理、相关技术及典型应用。在传感新原理方面，讨论了新型人工局域表面等离激元的谐振结构、电磁模式、以及涡旋波传感原理；在传感指标提升技术方面，探讨了模式间耦合和有源放大两种传感增强方法；在应用探索方面，回顾了人工局域表面等离激元在溶液浓度传感、细胞传感和力学量传感等方向的代表性工作，介绍了小型化人工局域表面等离激元传感系统的最新进展。最后，对人工局域表面等离激元传感的发展趋势进行了讨论和展望。

信息超表面由于其强大的处理空间电磁波的能力，成为国内外物理和信息领域的研究热点之一。文中主要介绍信息超表面在无线通信领域的一系列研究进展。信息超表面能实时操控电磁波及直接处理数字编码信息，并进一步对信息进行感知、理解，甚至记忆、学习和认知，这使其在无线通信领域展现出巨大潜能。文中首先介绍信息超表面在承担无线中继职能时所涉及的信道建模研究进展、以及其对信道的改善作用；其次介绍信息超表面在新体制发射机中的应用，通过对入射到信息超表面上的载波进行幅度或相位调制，实现了多种简化的发射机架构。此外，文中还介绍了利用信息超表面近场、远场以及散射场等信息，实现了多种新型无线通信系统。最后，文章对基于信息超表面的无线通信进行了总结和展望。

1016001Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and energy harvesting technologies are expected to provide revolutionary technological changes in important fields such as 5G communications and the Internet of Things. The short-range coupling WPT has gradually been commercialized, but there are still many technical bottlenecks in the practical process of microwave power transmission that can realize long-distance applications, such as the contradiction between the limited aperture of transceiver antennas and the WPT efficiency. The developments of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces have brought new breakthroughs for solving the above-mentioned problems. In this paper, we will focus on the combination of the two important technologies, and systematically review the applications of metamaterials in microwave wireless power transfer and wireless energy harvesting. The results show that the near-field focusing metasurface can significantly improve the transfer efficiency. We will also introduce the research progress of optically transparent metasurfaces and reconfigurable metasurfaces for improving WPT performance and practicability. Based on the periodically close arrangements of subwavelength metamaterial units, a wireless energy harvester with wide-angle incidence and polarization-insensitive characteristics is designed, which can replace conventional receiving antennas with higher harvesting efficiency. Furthermore, coplanar integration with the rectifying diodes makes a new concept of the rectifying metasurface, which can simplify the overall structure, reduce the size, and improve the efficiency. Finally, we will discuss the future progress of WPT, and point out the vital role that programmable and intelligent metamaterial technologies will play very important roles in future simultaneous wireless information and power transfer systems.

We present a conformal metamaterial with simultaneous optical transparency and broadband millimeter-wave absorption for a curved surface. By tailoring the reflection response of meta-atoms at oblique angles, it is possible to achieve excellent absorption performance from 26.5 to 40.0 GHz within a wide angular range from 0° to 60° for transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic waves. In the meantime, by employing transparent substrates, including polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene terephthalate, good optical transmittance (80.1%) and flexibility are obtained simultaneously. The reflectivity of a curved metallic surface coated with the proposed curved metamaterial is simulated and measured experimentally. Both results demonstrate excellent absorption performance of the metamaterial, which is highly favored for practical applications.