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Christophe Caloz

Christophe Caloz

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
80
Citations
30449
World Ranking
513
National Ranking
8

Physics

D-Index
79
Citations
30087
World Ranking
3069
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2020 - OSA Fellows Christophe Caloz KU Leuven, Belgium, and Polytechnique Montréal, Canada For pioneering contributions to electromagnetic metamaterials and sustained leadership in bridging the gap between microwave and photonics technologies
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Christophe Caloz is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy. Their research output includes a significant number of publications focused on atomic and molecular physics, optics, aerospace engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Christophe Caloz's work include metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, antenna design and analysis, orbital angular momentum in optics, mechanical and optical resonators, electromagnetic simulation and numerical methods, and microwave engineering and waveguides.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Christophe Caloz include:

  • "Electromagnetic Chirality, Part 1: The Microscopic Perspective [Electromagnetic Perspectives]," 2020, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
  • "Generalized Space-Time Engineered Modulation (GSTEM) Metamaterials: A global and extended perspective," 2022, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
  • "Spread-Spectrum Selective Camouflaging Based on Time-Modulated Metasurface," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "Roadmap on electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces," 2024, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • "Electromagnetic Inversion With Local Power Conservation for Metasurface Design," 2020, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christophe Caloz include Amir Bahrami, Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger, Zhiyu Li, and Mojtaba Dehmollaian.

Publication venues where Christophe Caloz has contributed most frequently are arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Physical Review Applied, and the 2020 Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials).

Christophe Caloz has received recognition including the OSA Fellows award in 2020 for contributions to electromagnetic metamaterials and bridging microwave and photonics technologies. Additionally, Caloz is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Electromagnetic metamaterials : transmission line theory and microwave applications : the engineering approach

    Christophe Caloz;Tatsuo Itoh

  • Composite right/left-handed transmission line metamaterials

    A. Lai;T. Itoh;C. Caloz

  • Leaky-Wave Antennas

    D. R. Jackson;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • Application of the transmission line theory of left-handed (LH) materials to the realization of a microstrip "LH line"

    C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • A novel composite right-/left-handed coupled-line directional coupler with arbitrary coupling level and broad bandwidth

    C. Caloz;A. Sanada;T. Itoh

  • Transmission line approach of left-handed (LH) materials and microstrip implementation of an artificial LH transmission line

    C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • Dominant mode leaky-wave antenna with backfire-to-endfire scanning capability

    Lei Liu;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • Arbitrary dual-band components using composite right/left-handed transmission lines

    I-Hsiang Lin;M. DeVincentis;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • What is Nonreciprocity

    Christophe Caloz;Andrea Alù;Sergei Tretyakov;Dimitrios Sounas

  • Novel microwave devices and structures based on the transmission line approach of meta-materials

    C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • Characteristics of the composite right/left-handed transmission lines

    A. Sanada;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • Giant non-reciprocity at the subwavelength scale using angular momentum-biased metamaterials

    Dimitrios L. Sounas;Christophe Caloz;Andrea Alù

  • Metamaterial-based electronically controlled transmission-line structure as a novel leaky-wave antenna with tunable radiation angle and beamwidth

    Sungjoon Lim;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • General Metasurface Synthesis Based on Susceptibility Tensors

    Karim Achouri;Mohamed A. Salem;Christophe Caloz

  • Planar distributed structures with negative refractive index

    A. Sanada;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • CRLH metamaterial leaky-wave and resonant antennas

    C. Caloz;T. Itoh;A. Rennings

  • NOVEL ZEROTH-ORDER RESONANCE IN COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT- HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE RESONATORS

    Atsushi Sanada;Christophe Caloz;Tatsuo Itoh

  • Spacetime Metamaterials—Part I: General Concepts

    Christophe Caloz;Zoe-Lise Deck-Leger

  • A compact enhanced-bandwidth hybrid ring using an artificial lumped-element left-handed transmission-line section

    H. Okabe;C. Caloz;T. Itoh

  • A planar zeroth-order resonator antenna using a left-handed transmission line

    A. Sanada;M. Kimura;I. Awai;C. Caloz

  • Leaky‐Wave Antennas

    Constantine A. Balanis

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuo Itoh
Tatsuo Itoh University of California, Los Angeles
Dimitrios L. Sounas
Dimitrios L. Sounas Wayne State University
Ke Wu
Ke Wu Polytechnique Montréal
Alejandro Álvarez Melcón
Alejandro Álvarez Melcón Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Sergei A. Tretyakov
Sergei A. Tretyakov Aalto University
Sungjoon Lim
Sungjoon Lim Chung-Ang University
Maksim Skorobogatiy
Maksim Skorobogatiy Polytechnique Montréal
Smail Tedjini
Smail Tedjini Grenoble Institute of Technology
Peter Russer
Peter Russer Technical University of Munich
Daniel Erni
Daniel Erni University of Duisburg-Essen

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