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George V. Eleftheriades

George V. Eleftheriades

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
27700
World Ranking
426
National Ranking
21

Physics

D-Index
83
Citations
27975
World Ranking
2762
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2008 - IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award “For pioneering contributions to the science and the technological applications of negative-refraction electromagnetic materials.”
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to conception, analysis and fabrication of electromagnetic materials and their applications.

Overview

George V. Eleftheriades is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes primarily in engineering and materials science. Their work spans multiple subfields including aerospace engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's research is notably focused on advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, with significant coverage in antenna design and analysis, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, microwave engineering and waveguides, antenna design and optimization, magneto-optical properties and applications, and full-duplex wireless communications.

Recent publications highlight a range of topics within electromagnetic materials and metasurfaces. These include:

  • Full-Duplex Nonreciprocal Beam Steering by Time-Modulated Phase-Gradient Metasurfaces (2020), Physical Review Applied
  • Microwave Space-Time-Modulated Metasurfaces (2022), ACS Photonics
  • Microwave Huygens' Metasurfaces: Fundamentals and Applications (2021), IEEE Journal of Microwaves
  • Engineered Electromagnetic Metasurfaces in Wireless Communications: Applications, Research Frontiers and Future Directions (2022), IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Arbitrary Wave Transformations with Huygens' Metasurfaces through Surface-Wave Optimization (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Sajjad Taravati, Vasileios G. Ataloglou, Konstantina S. Nikita, Marco Salucci, and Asimina Kiourti. This collaborative network reflects contributions across a broad spectrum of research projects focused on metasurface technologies and electromagnetic applications.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the largest number of publications appearing in the following journals and conferences:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Access
  • 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)
  • Physical Review Applied

Awards and recognitions include their election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009 by the Academy of Science. They received the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2008 for pioneering contributions to negative-refraction electromagnetic materials, and were named an IEEE Fellow in 2006 for their work on electromagnetic materials and their applications.

Best Publications

  • Planar negative refractive index media using periodically L-C loaded transmission lines

    G.V. Eleftheriades;A.K. Iyer;P.C. Kremer

  • Negative-Refraction Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications

    G. V. Eleftheriades;Keith G. Balmain

  • Overcoming the Diffraction Limit with a Planar Left-Handed Transmission-Line Lens

    A. Grbic;G. V. Eleftheriades

  • Experimental verification of backward-wave radiation from a negative refractive index metamaterial

    Anthony Grbic;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Metamaterials for controlling and guiding electromagnetic radiation and applications therefor

    George V. Eleftheriades;Keith G. Balmain

  • Negative refractive index metamaterials supporting 2-D waves

    A.K. Iyer;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • Compact linear lead/lag metamaterial phase shifters for broadband applications

    M.A. Antoniades;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • Design and characterization of single- and multiple-beam mm-wave circularly polarized substrate lens antennas for wireless communications

    X. Wu;G.V. Eleftheriades;T.E. van Deventer-Perkins

  • Metallo-dielectric electromagnetic bandgap structures for suppression and isolation of the parallel-plate noise in high-speed circuits

    R. Abhari;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • Arbitrary Power-Conserving Field Transformations With Passive Lossless Omega-Type Bianisotropic Metasurfaces

    Ariel Epstein;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Huygens' metasurfaces via the equivalence principle: design and applications

    Ariel Epstein;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Synthesis of Passive Lossless Metasurfaces Using Auxiliary Fields for Reflectionless Beam Splitting and Perfect Reflection

    Ariel Epstein;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Periodically loaded transmission line with effective negative refractive index and negative group velocity

    O.F. Siddiqui;M. Mojahedi;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • Perfect Anomalous Reflection with a Bipartite Huygens’ Metasurface

    Alex M. H. Wong;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Transmission line models for negative refractive index media and associated implementations without excess resonators

    G.V. Eleftheriades;O. Siddiqui;A.K. Iyer

  • Discontinuous electromagnetic fields using orthogonal electric and magnetic currents for wavefront manipulation

    Michael Selvanayagam;George V. Eleftheriades

  • Wide-scan spherical-lens antennas for automotive radars

    B. Schoenlinner;Xidong Wu;J.P. Ebling;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • A compact and low-profile metamaterial ring antenna with vertical polarization

    F. Qureshi;M.A. Antoniades;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • Periodic analysis of a 2-D negative refractive index transmission line structure

    A. Grbic;G.V. Eleftheriades

  • A Compact Transmission-Line Metamaterial Antenna With Extended Bandwidth

    Jiang Zhu;G.V. Eleftheriades

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Grbic
Anthony Grbic University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Gabriel M. Rebeiz University of California, San Diego
Juan R. Mosig
Juan R. Mosig École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sean Victor Hum
Sean Victor Hum University of Toronto
Linda P. B. Katehi
Linda P. B. Katehi Texas A&M University
Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Sergei A. Tretyakov
Sergei A. Tretyakov Aalto University
Tatsuo Itoh
Tatsuo Itoh University of California, Los Angeles

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