2025
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD
Sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
“For contributions to engineered surfaces and metasurfaces with application to antennas, cloaking, and sub-diffraction imaging.”
George Eleftheriades is a recognized international authority and pioneer in the area of metamaterials. These are man-made media which have electromagnetic properties not found in nature. Professor Eleftheriades introduced a method for synthesizing metamaterials using loaded transmission lines. Together with his graduate students, he provided the first experimental evidence of imaging beyond the diffraction limit with a Veselago-Pendry lens and pioneered several novel microwave and optical components and antennas using these transmission-line based metamaterials. Subsequently, he pioneered the concept of “field-discontinuity” metasurfaces as well as far-field sub-diffraction imaging techniques with the aid of super-oscillations, an area in which Eleftheriades has also been making seminal contributions.
An IEEE Fellow, Eleftheriades is the Velma M. Rogers Graham Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.