Our research interests are applied electromagnetics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics. Metamaterials are structured artificial media with unusual electromagnetic properties. Metamaterials allows us to exactly create the demanded material response rather than relying on the properties of conventional materials. We design metamaterials and try to incorporate them into rf/microwave devices. These devices are mainly microwave sensors, frequency selective surfaces, absorbers, energy harvesters, miniaturized antennas, broadband and multiband antennas, and waveguides. Our research encompasses the design, simulation, fabrication and experimental characterization. We have three goals: research, education, and technology development (including healthcare, defense, and security applications). We encourage you to browse content of our website about our research efforts and recent news.

Barış Akaoğlu

Head of Group

Professor of Physics Engineering

 

We specialize in artificial electromagnetic materials (such as metamaterials, metasurfaces, frequency selective surfaces, photonic crystals) from a fundamental as well as practical perspective. Our primary emphasis is on the design and characterization of artificial electromagnetic structures, devices and materials, with the aim of enhancing, controlling, and tailoring their electromagnetic properties. These developments find applications across a wide spectrum, including broadband/multiband electromagnetic wave absorption, enhanced energy harvesting, sensing, filtering, and monitoring. We encourage ambitious undergraduate and graduate students who are intrigued by the practical applications of electromagnetism to join us on this journey of research and innovation.

 

Fulya Bağcı

Associate professor of Physics Engineering