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CEAMS | VISIOSURF | C-SpaRC | RF-META | HSAdapt-JG

My current research interests (2024) 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.
  • CEAMS: Chip-Enabled Adaptive Metasurfaces for ICT Systems

  • Website: www.ucy.ac.cy/ceams
  • Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation
  • Funding: 600K EUR
  • Duration: 2023-2025

The CEAMS project is in the process of developing a groundbreaking technology that combines custom-designed microelectronic chips and metasurfaces. This combination allows the implementation of programmable metasurfaces with extended capabilities and improved performance over the currently available systems. CEAMS aims to provide unmatched 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 will establish 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 will contribute 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.

    VISORSURF: A Hardware Platform for Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces

  • Website: www.visorsurf.eu
  • Project type: H2020 FET-OPEN
  • Funding: 5M EUR
  • Duration: 2017-2021

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.

    C-SpaRC: Cyprus Space Research and Innovation Centre

  • Website: TBA
  • Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Infrastructure Grant
  • Funding: 2.5M EUR
  • Duration: 2024-2027
  • Through this project, the ifrastructure for space research will be implemented in Cyprus. Our laboratory will design integrated circuits for space applications, taking into account that the transistors must operate correctly for many years under harsh conditions such as high radiation and extreme temperature variations.

    RF-META: Advanced RF Electronics Center for Adaptive Metamaterials

  • Website: N/A
  • Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Infrastructure Grant
  • Funding: 1M EUR
  • Duration: 2019-2023
  • 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.

    HSAdapt-JG: Real-time Control of the Wireless Behavior of Environments with Hypersurfaces

  • Website: N/A
  • Project type: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation Complementary Grant
  • Funding: 55K EUR
  • Duration: 2018-2020

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.