Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1950. 33.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the design, analysis, and application of metasurfaces, including frequency selective surfaces, reflectarrays, and artificial magnetic conductors, for antenna and radar systems. The research covers topics such as low-profile design, beam control, radar absorbers, and high impedance surfaces.
- Metasurfaces
- Frequency Selective Surfaces
- Reflectarrays
- Antennas
- Radar Absorbers
- Artificial Magnetic Conductors
- High Impedance Surfaces
- Beam Control
- Low-Profile Design
- Electromagnetic Bandgap
- Research works
- 61k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 20k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 33.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +43% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (7.3k and 1.6k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 7.3k works
- 2 India 1.6k works
- 3 United States 808 works
- 4 South Korea 382 works
- 5 Japan 296 works
- 6 United Kingdom 290 works
- 7 Italy 278 works
- 8 France 268 works
- 9 Canada 245 works
- 10 Iran 228 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research, followed by Xidian University and Northwestern Polytechnical University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 306 works
- 2 Xidian UniversityChina 281 works
- 3 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 190 works
- 4 Southeast UniversityChina 179 works
- 5 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 153 works
- 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 144 works
- 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 142 works
- 8 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 126 works
- 9 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 125 works
- 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 119 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies include Robert W. Heath, David R. Smith and Rui Zhang.
- 1 Robert W. Heath United States 7.1k citations
- 2 David R. Smith United States 6.3k citations
- 3 Rui Zhang Singapore 6k citations
- 4 Zhu Han United States 4.7k citations
- 5 Mérouane Debbah France 4.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Nanjing73.2 works45×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Macau, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Reykjavík University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MacauMacau | 69.0 | 35.0% | 10.3× | 47 | +560.6% |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina | 67.7 | 44.1% | 11.8× | 190 | +119.9% |
| 3 | Reykjavík UniversityIceland | 64.5 | 44.1% | 22.8× | 11 | +213.9% |
| 4 | Hubei University of Automotive TechnologyChina | 64.2 | 94.0% | 14.5× | 10 | — |
| 5 | South China University of TechnologyChina | 63.0 | 33.3% | 9.5× | 144 | +143.9% |
| 6 | Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 62.6 | 23.4% | 19.0× | 115 | +302.7% |
| 7 | University of Technology SydneyAustralia | 62.6 | 36.3% | 8.2× | 51 | +2558.3% |
| 8 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina | 61.5 | 28.8% | 19.2× | 306 | +54.9% |
| 9 | Air Force Engineering UniversityChina | 61.2 | 25.6% | 46.3× | 96 | +207.1% |
| 10 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina | 61.0 | 28.0% | 9.9× | 125 | +144.4% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 43% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.