Recently, the team led by Professor Li Long at Xidian University has made a remarkable breakthrough in the domain of reconfigurable intelligent metasurfaces. Their research, entitled "Electromagnetic Multidimensional Fusion Radiation-Scattering Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurface," has been published in National Science Review, a premier English-language academic journal in China.

The research addresses the limitations of traditional intelligent reflecting surfaces, namely their single functionality and inefficient resource utilization. To tackle these issues, the study innovatively puts forward a theory for integrated electromagnetic multidimensional fusion radiation-scattering control and develops a unified physical platform. This platform is capable of simultaneously regulating the multidimensional characteristics of electromagnetic waves, encompassing phase, polarization, amplitude, waveform, frequency, and time, thereby achieving coordinated control over radiation and scattering states.

Furthermore, the research team has devised an integrated architecture for "communication-sensing-decision-making-energy supply," which empowers the metasurface to carry out multiple functions—such as communication, sensing, decision-making, and wireless energy supply—on a single hardware platform.

Experimental results indicate that the metasurface can perform efficient beam scanning and signal transmission in radiation mode, effectively cover communication blind spots in scattering mode, and has the capability to harvest wireless energy. This breakthrough presents a novel technological paradigm for the 6G communication era, the endurance of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles, and the Internet of Everything within wireless sensor networks.