Research
Cy3C | C-SpaRC | CEAMS | RF-META | VISORSURF | HSAdapt-JG
My current research interests (2026) are the implementation of electronic and/or microelectronic systems to enable or enhance emerging technologies, mainly (but not only) in the field of communication.
- Circuits and systems for: Adaptive metamaterials, Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), ICT applications.
- Asynchronous Circuit Design.
- Low-power, low latency mixed-signal integrated circuits.
- Future Emerging Technologies.
- RF-IC Design for communication systems.
- a-IGZO IC Design for satellite communications.
- Current mode IC design.
- Website: TBA
- Project type: EU Grants
- Funding: 4M EUR
- Duration: 2026-2030
- Website: www.csparc.org
- Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Infrastructure Grant
- Funding: 2.5M EUR
- Duration: 2024-2027
- Website: www.ucy.ac.cy/ceams
- Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation
- Funding: 600K EUR
- Duration: 2023-2025
- Website: N/A
- Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Infrastructure Grant
- Funding: 1M EUR
- Duration: 2019-2023
- Website: www.visorsurf.eu
- Project type: H2020 FET-OPEN
- Funding: 5M EUR
- Duration: 2017-2021
- Website: N/A
- Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Complementary Grant
- Funding: 55K EUR
- Duration: 2018-2020
Cyprus Chip Competence Center
The creation of a Cypriot Chips Competence Center (Cy3C) will contribute to the vision of making Cyprus a regional high-tech hub by providing services that are currently missing in Cyprus. Cy3C will provide specialized technical expertise, either locally or through the Competence Center network, in the area of microelectronics design to local startups, SMEs and RTOs. This will include facilitating setting up software, access to EU-wide Chips JUchip pilot lines and access to local infrastructure for testing. The Center will provide specialized training to ECE graduates related to chip and electronic system design, via a Chips-Act, purpose-built MSc course focused on Chip Design Aspects, to be hosted at the University of Cyprus (UCY).
C-SpaRC: Cyprus Space Research and Innovation Centre
Through this project, the ifrastructure for space research will be implemented in Cyprus. Our laboratory designed integrated circuits using amorphous Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide technology (a-IGZO), which are found to have inherent immunity to Single Event Upsets and are likely suitable for space applications. Taking into account that the transistors must operate correctly for years under harsh conditions such as high radiation and extreme temperature variations, the team designed these integrated circuits with radiation hardened by design approach. Their operation lies in the satellite communication field since they will be used to control programmable metasurfaces for space applications.
CEAMS: Chip-Enabled Adaptive Metasurfaces for ICT Systems
The CEAMS project developed a groundbreaking technology that combines microelectronic chips and metasurfaces. This combination allows the implementation of programmable metasurfaces with extended capabilities and improved performance over the currently available systems. CEAMS provides control over electromagnetic waves, enabling limitless possibilities for multifunctional operations and dynamic manipulation, including wave absorption, reflection, steering, and precise focusing.
The holistic, long-term vision of CEAMS is to provide the missing technology to advance the information and communication industry to the new era of using metasurfaces for ICT systems. We aim to develop a new means of electromagnetic wave manipulation through the use of adaptive networking and complex impedance tuning with integrated circuits, enabling improved communication systems. CEAMS establishes the foundations for programmable metasurfaces to replace bulky, mechanically steered, reflecting and/or receiving system components, e.g. conventional parabolic antennas, by enabling rapid electronic reconfigurations of various electromagnetic functionalities. Furthermore, such a technological advancement contributes to optimizing the transmission power required from the source and also the size and position of the receiver. To achieve this, we have established three complementary objectives leading to significant breakthroughs, and ensuring the sustainability of the RTDI system and future commercialization of this technology.
RF-META: Advanced RF Electronics Center for Adaptive Metamaterials
The RF-META project is an infrastructure project for RF electronics and adaptive metamaterials. Our laboratory designed and developed ASIC-based metasrufaces, which are tested using the infrastructure of the RF-META project. Through this project, the RF anechoic chamber at UCY was implemented, which is a vital infrastructure for metasurface testing.
VISORSURF: A Hardware Platform for Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces
VISORSURF's objective is to develop a full stack of hardware and software components for smart, interconnected planar objects with programmable electromagnetic behavior, the HyperSurfaces. The key-enablers are the metasurfaces, artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties depend on their internal structure. HyperSurfaces merge metasurfaces with embedded electronic control elements and well-defined software programming interfaces and tools. The control elements receive external software commands and alter the metasurface structure, yielding a desired electromagnetic behavior.
Metasurfaces are thin and planar artificial structures and have recently enabled the realization of novel electromagnetic and optical components with engineered and even unnatural functionalities. These include electromagnetic invisibility of objects (cloaking), total radiation absorption, as well as fine-grained manipulation of impinging electromagnetic emissions in terms of direction, polarity, phase and power in a frequency-selective manner.
Nonetheless, metasurfaces do not offer a well-defined way of integration to products and interconnectivity to the Internet of Things. Designing and operating metasurfaces remains an extremely specialized and undocumented task, limiting their accessibility and use within the broad engineering field.
VISORSURF proposes a hardware and software platform-the HyperSurface-that separates usability concerns from the underlying physics.
HSAdapt-JG: Real-time Control of the Wireless Behavior of Environments with Hypersurfaces
This project is a complementary project for the project 'VISORSURF'. The extended time and funding from this project allowed for extended research for implementing robust ASICs for metamaterials and the potential implementation of higher frequency ASIC-based programmable metasurfaces.