Welcome to our group! We are with the Section of Condensed Matter Physics of the Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). We conduct theoretical, computational, and experimental research in the broader area of quantum condensed matter photonics, including nanophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, "slow-"/"stopped-" ("flat-band") and "fast-light" phenomena, invisibility cloaking, laser physics, (quantum) self-organized criticality, topological, chiral and nonlinear optics, and computational physics. We aim at advancing, both, fundamental knowledge and, in collaboration with our international partners, conceiving practical applications in the above scientific fields by exploring advanced new optical, electromagnetic, acoustic, magnetic / topological, chiral, and quasi-2D materials and devices.
Dielectrics below the diffraction limit; Nature Reviews Physics (Mar. 2026)
Topological rainbow trapping; Nature Reviews Physics' front cover (Aug. 2025)
Discovery of the exact 3D one-way wave equation; Nature Communications (2025)
Unidirectional-wave driven metasurfaces; Nature Communications (2024)
3D topological extraordinary optical transmission (T-EOT); Comm. Phys. (2023)
Book on 'Metamaterials and Nanophotonics: Principles, Techniques and Applications' (Sept. 2022) - you may order by clicking at the image below:
3D Weyl topology in 1D photonic structures - News & Views, Light: Science & Applications (2022) (IF: 18,5)
Topological slow light beyond the time-bandwidth limit; invited Perspectives and Featured article in Appl. Phys. Lett. (2021)
Stopped-light nanolasing in 'magic-angle' twisted graphene bilayers - News & Views, Nature Nanotechnol. (2021)
Nonlinear metasurfaces; Nano Letters (2021)
Ultrabroadband 'tachyonic' 3D invisibility cloaks; Nature Communications (2019)
Accessible superchiral near-fields in all-dielectric metasurfaces; cover, ACS Photonics (2019)
Quantum-coherence driven self-organized criticality; Science Advances (2018)
Breaking Lorentz reciprocity & the time-bandwidth limit; Science (2017)
Ultraslow waves on the nanoscale; Science (2017)
Stopped and dispersionless light in lossy rough structures; Phys. Rev. Lett. (2014)
Metamaterials with quantum gain; Science (2013)
Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials; Nature Materials (2012)
Theory of light amplification in active metamaterials; Phys. Rev. Lett. (2011)
Overcoming losses with gain in negative-refractive-index metamaterials; Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010)
Invisibility & electromagnetic 'wormholes'; News & Views, Nature (2008)
'Trapped rainbow' storage of light in metamaterials; Nature (2007)
