中文摘要：

Subwavelength electromagnetics 是在与 subwavelength 结构控制电磁波的 subwavelength 规模和创新技术处理轻事的相互作用的一个学科。尽管历史几乎 100 年以前能被始于，这些研究区域的 flourish 是仅仅 30 年。在这篇论文，我们给了历史，当前的地位和 subwavelength electromagnetics 的未来趋势的简短评论。特别地，与 metamaterials， plasmonics， metasurfaces 和 photonic 晶体联系的里程碑被加亮。

英文摘要：

Subwavelength electromagnetics is a disci- pline that deals with light-matter interaction at subwave- length scale and innovative technologies that control electromagnetic waves with subwavelength structures. Although the history can be dated back to almost one hundred years ago, the flourish of these researching areas have been no more than 30 years. In this paper, we gave a brief review of the history, current status and future trends of subwavelength electromagnetics. In particular, the milestones related with metamaterials, plasmonics, meta- surfaces and photonic crystals are highlighted.