An editorial committee meeting was held in Beijing on July 1, 2022, marking the inauguration of compilation of the book series BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) , which aim to wrap up how the BDS was constructed in China as well as its achievements.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Tianwu from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposes an ultra-thin THz CEP shifter composed of different MM arrays, which can modulate the CEP of broadband THz pulses in the sub-wavelength thickness range and maintain the electric field polarization (Figure 1a, b). The study was published in Advanced Optical Materials.

Four datasets on the Sahel-Sudano-Guinean region of Africa have been recently released on the platform of the National Tibetan Plateau / Third Pole Environment Data Center. The four datasets include: 1) 30m resolution land use/cover the (1990-2020); 2) annual NPP-VIIRS (National Polar-Orbiting Partnership - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) night time light (2013-2020); 3) long time series on night time light on the same region as data set (2), but a much longer period of time (1992-2020); 4) inventory and extent of surface water bodies (2000-2020).

According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report (JCR) recently released by Clarivate Analytics, the impact factor of Microsystems & Nanoengineering has risen to 8.006 in 2021. With a 50% increase in the total number of articles published, Microsystems & Nanoengineering has ranked No. 4 in the Instrument & Instrumentation category in JCR in terms of impact factor, continued to be ranked in the Q1, and ranked No. 1 in instrumentation subject in Chinese journals for six consecutive years.

A program on "Key technologies and software for intelligent processing of multi-platform and multi-modal point cloud data" was launched to develop key technologies and software for intelligent processing of big point cloud data.

A program on "High Sensitive Magnetoresistive Sensor" was launched to develop ultrahigh sensitive magnetic sensor for advancing weak magnetic field detection, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).