Staff Profile

Dr. Victor Pacheco-Peña is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Physics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. He leads the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Laboratory and the Emerging Technologies and Materials Group (ETM). Additional information can be found in his Google Scholar, ORCID and ResearchGate profiles.

He has been a visiting researcher at the Imperial College London (UK) and University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 2014 and 2015, respectively. From 2013-2016 he was a predoctoral researcher at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) where he was funded by a University Teacher Training Aid (FPU Fellowship) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. From 2016-2018 he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

He has been awarded as "Young Scientist" by the AT-AP-RASC 2022 (Gran Canaria, Spain) and URSI GASS 2020 (Rome, Italy), "Young Scientist of the Year" by the Spanish URSI during the XXXI Spanish Conference URSI 2016 and has received a CST University Publication Award for the best international journal publication using CST Microwave Studio ^(R) in 2016, among other awards.

His current research is focused on Metamaterials, THz, Plasmonics, Optics and Electromagnetism.

Qualifications

• PhD Communications Technologies, Public University of Navarra, Spain
• MRes Communications Technologies, Public University of Navarra, Spain
• MSci Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador

Membership

• URSI Senior Member
• IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
• AP-S/URSI
• Metamorphose - Metamaterials Membership
• Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)

Awards

• 2022: AT-AP-RASC 2022 Young Scientist Award for early career researchers, Gran Canaria, 2022
• 2020: URSI GASS 2020 Young Scientist Award for early career researchers, Rome 2020
• 2019: Manuscript highlighted in "PhysicsWorld.com", IOP
• 2018: Newcastle University Research Fellowship
• 2016: Young Scientist of the Year, URSI 2016, Spain
• 2015: University Teacher Training Aid (FPU) Mobility grant, University of Pennsylvania USA, Spanish Ministry of Education, Spain
• 2015: Manuscript included in "Optics and Photonics News 2015", The Optical Society
• 2014: University Teacher Training Aid (FPU) Mobility grant, Imperial College London UK, Spanish Ministry of Education, Spain
• 2014: Manuscript included in "Highlights 2014", Journal of Optics
• 2012: University Teacher Training Aid (FPU), Spanish Ministry of Education, Spain
• 2012: International Talent Scholarship, Government of Navarra, Spain
• 2010: Academic Scholarship, Erasmus Mundus Lot20, EU
• 2009: International Representative, ITU Telecom World 2009, Switzerland
• 2005: Academic Scholarship, Kazma Family Foundation, Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador

Dr. Victor Pacheco-Peña's field of expertise is focused on the design of devices using artificial electromagnetic materials (metamaterials) and periodic structures at microwave, millimeter, terahertz and optical frequencies.

His research background in metamaterials and wave-matter interaction also includes the design and demonstration of metamaterial-based antennas and lenses for sensing and imaging applications. Within the past years, his focus has been on the development of high resolution dielectric structures and metamaterial lenses applied to microscopy applications.

Research Themes:

• Metamaterials, metasurfaces and periodic structures.
• Spatial, temporal and space-time metamaterials.
• Non-traditional computing: wave-based computing
• Terahertz (THz) devices.
• Plasmonic nanostructures.
• Communication Technologies.
• Optics and Electromagnetism.

Professional research service:

• The multidisciplinary research of Dr. Victor Pacheco-Peña has enabled him to become an active reviewer in more than 25 international peer-reviewed journals including Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Optics Express, Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Microwave theory and Techniques, IEEE Photonic Journal and Applied Physics Letters.
• Topic Board Editor in the journal "Electronics".
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Photonics (Plasmonics section).

    He has participated as a guest editor in the journals:

• Optics Express (2023): "Feature issue introduction: temporal and spatiotemporal metamaterials" (Guest Editor).
• Electronics (2019): “Terahertz Technology and Its Applications: Part I” (Lead Guest Editor).
• Electronics (2021): “Terahertz Technology and Its Applications: Part II” (Lead Guest Editor).
• Applied Sciences (2019): “Terahertz Sensing” (Guest Editor).

Dr. Victor Pacheco-Pena has participated in the following courses within the last few years:

Undergraduate Modules

• PHY2021: Principles of Electromagnetism (Module leader).
• PHY2038: Optics and Principles of Electromagnetism
• PHY3037-EEE3016: Photonics
• PHY3025: Group Project
• PHY3027: BSc Physics project
• PHY8050: MPhys Extended Project
• Propagation and transmission of waves. Teaching assistant. MSci Telecommunications Engineering (2014-2016)
• Electricity and Magnetism. Undergraduate demonstrator. MSci Engineering (2009-2010)
• Engineering Mathematics II. Undergraduate demonstrator. MSci Telecommunications Engineering (2007-2010)

Postgraduate Modules

• EEE8097: Individual Project
• PHY8007: MRes Physics Project
• CAD tools for high frequency. Teaching assistant. MRes Communications Technologies (2014-2016)

• Articles

  • Pacheco-Peña V. Time interfaces for broadband coherent wave manipulation. Nature Physics 2023, 19, 1561–1562.
  • Macdonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Time derivatives via interconnected waveguides. Scientific Reports 2023, 13, 13126.
  • Liberal I, Vásquez-Lozano JE, Pacheco-Peña V. Quantum antireflection temporal coatings: quantum state frequency shifting and inhibited thermal noise amplification. Laser & Photonics Reviews 2023, 17(9), 2200720.
  • Riley JA, Horak M, Krapek V, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Plasmonic sensing using Babinet’s principle. Nanophotonics 2023, 12(30), 3895-3909.
  • Knightley T, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Neural network design of multilayer metamaterial for temporal differentiation. Advanced Optical Materials 2023, 11(5), 2202351.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Merging Effective Medium Concepts of Spatial and Temporal Media: Opening new avenues for manipulating wave-matter interaction in 4D. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 2023, 65(4), 39-49.
  • Huidobro PA, Alam MZ, Engheta N, Pacheco-Peña V. Feature issue introduction: temporal and spatiotemporal metamaterials. Optics Express 2023, 31(11), 18072-18074.
  • Warren MA, Shakouri A, Pacheco-Peña V, Hallam T. Development of a novel design of Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for improved sensitivity and cell identification. ACS Omega 2023, 8(21), 18882-18890.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, M Solis D, Engheta N. Time-varying electromagnetic media: opinion. Optical Materials Express 2022, 12(10), 3829-3836.
  • Riley JA, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Plasmonic meniscus lenses. Scientific Reports 2022, 12, 894.
  • Aljuaid W, Riley JA, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. On-fiber high-resolution photonic nanojets via high refractive index dielectrics. Optics Express 2022, 30(24), 43678-43690.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Hallam T, Healy N. MXene supported surface plasmons on telecommunications optical fibers. Light: Science and Applications 2022, 11(1), 22.
  • Alves RA, Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cía M. Madelung Formalism for Electron Spill-Out in Nonlocal Nanoplasmonics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2022, 126(34), 14758-14765.
  • Ventisei A, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting Petri Nets for Graphical Modelling of Electromagnetic Pulse Switching Operations. Advanced Theory and Simulations 2022, 5(3), 2100429.
  • Beruete M, Engheta N, Pacheco-Peña V. Experimental demonstration of deeply subwavelength dielectric sensing with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) waveguides. Applied Physics Letters 2022, 120, 081106.
  • MacDonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Amplitude-Controlled Electromagnetic Pulse Switching Using Waveguide Junctions for High-Speed Computing Processes. Advanced Intelligent Systems 2022, 4(12), 2200137.
  • Nicolussi M, Riley JA, Pacheco-Peña V. Unidirectional transparency in epsilon-near-zero based rectangular waveguides induced by parity-time symmetry. Applied Physics Letters 2021, 119(26), 263507.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Temporal equivalent of the Brewster angle. Physical Review B 2021, 104, 214308.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Spatiotemporal isotropic-to-anisotropic meta-atoms. New Journal of Physics 2021, 23(9), 095006.
  • Legaria S, Teniente J, Kuznetsov S, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Highly Efficient Focusing of Terahertz Waves with an Ultrathin Superoscillatory Metalens: Experimental Demonstration. Advanced Photonics Research 2021, 2000165.
  • Castaldi G, Pacheco-Peña V, Moccia M, Engheta N, Galdi V. Exploiting space-time duality in the synthesis of impedance transformers via temporal metamaterials. Nanophotonics 2021, 10(14), 1-13.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Riley JA, Liu C-Y, Minin O, Minin I. Diffraction limited photonic hook via scattering and diffraction of dual‑dielectric structures. Scientific Reports 2021, 11, 20278.
  • Jáuregui-López I, Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Tripod-loop metasurfaces for Terahertz-sensing Applications: A comparison. Applied Sciences 2020, 10(18), 6504.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Temporal Aiming. Light: Science and Applications 2020, 9, 129.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Alves R, Navarro-Cia M. From symmetric to asymmetric bowtie nanoantennas: electrostatic conformal mapping perspective. Nanophotonics 2020, 9(5), 1177-1187.
  • Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Enabling High-Speed Computing with Electromagnetic Pulse Switching. Advanced Materials Technologies 2020, 5(12), e2000796.
  • Pacheco-Pena V, Engheta N. Effective medium concept in temporal metamaterials. Nanophotonics 2020, 9(2), 379-391.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Anti-reflection temporal coating. Optica 2020, 7(4), 323-331.
  • Greybush N, Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N, Murray CB, Kagan CR. Plasmonic Optical and Chiroptical Response of Self-Assembled Au Nanorod Equilateral Trimers. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 1617-1624.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Photonic nanojets with mesoscale high-index dielectric particles. Journal of Applied Physics 2019, 125(8), 084104.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Engheta N. On the performance of an ENZ-based sensor using transmission line theory and effective medium approach. New Journal of Physics 2019, 21, 043056.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Alves R, Navarro-Cia M. Hidden symmetries in bowtie nanocavities and diabolo nanoantennas. ACS Photonics 2019, 6(8), 2014-2024.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M. Understanding quantum emitters in plasmonic nanocavities with conformal transformation: Purcell enhancement and forces. Nanoscale 2018, 10(28), 13607-13616.
  • Legaria S, Pacheo-Pena V, Beruete M. Super-oscillatory metalens at terahertz for enhanced focusing with reduced side lobes. Photonics 2018, 5(4), 56.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Steering surface plasmons with a graded index dielectric medium. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2018, 51(48), 45101.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Phase reversal technique applied to fishnet metalenses. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2018, 2018, 9461858.
  • Mingliang Z, Pacheco-Peña V, Yu Y, Chen W, Greybush N, Sten A, Engheta N, Murray C, Kagan C. Nanoimprinted Chiral Plasmonic Substrates with Three-Dimensional Nanostructures. Nano Letters 2018, 18(11), 7389-7394.
  • Navarro-Cia M, Pacheco-Peña V, Kuznetsov S, Beruete M. Extraordinary THz Transmission with a Small Beam Spot: The Leaky Wave Mechanism. Advanced Optical Materials 2018, 6(8), 1701312.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. On the performance of the zoned fishnet metamaterial lens with positive and negative reference phase. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2017, 16, 1460-1463.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N, Kuznetsov S, Gentselev A, Beruete M. Experimental realization of an epsilon-near-zero graded-index metalens at terahertz frequencies. Physical Review Applied 2017, 8, 034036.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Aluminum nanotripods for light-matter coupling robust to nanoemitter orientation. Laser & Photonics Reviews 2017, 11(5), 1700051.
  • Minin IV, Minin OV, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Subwavelength optical trap in the field of a standing wave on photonic jets. Quantum Electronics 2016, 46(6), 555-557.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Increasing Surface Plasmons Propagation via Photonic Nanojets with Periodically Spaced 3D Dielectric Cuboids. Photonics 2016, 3(1), 1-7.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M. Epsilon-near-zero metalenses operating in the visible. Optics & Laser Technology 2016, 80, 162-168.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Doubling the propagation distance of surface plasmon polaritons. SPIE 2016, 2016, 1-2.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Navarro-Cia M. Description of Bow-Tie nanoantennas excited by localized emitters using conformal transformation. ACS Photonics 2016, 3(7), 1223-1232.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Comprehensive analysis of photonic nanojets in 3D dielectric cuboids excited by surface plasmons. Annalen der Physik 2016, 528(9-10), 684-692.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Orazbayev B, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Zoned fishnet lens antenna with reference phase for side-lobe reduction. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2015, 63(8), 3710-3714.
  • Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Pacheco-Peña M, Crespo G, Teniente J, Navarro-Cia M. Soret Fishnet Metalens Antenna. Scientific Reports 2015, 5, 1-6.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Minin IV, Minin OV. Multifrequency focusing and wide angular scanning of terajets. Optics Letters 2015, 40(2), 245-248.
  • Minin IV, Minin OV, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Localized photonic jets from flat, three-dimensional dielectric cuboids in the reflection mode. Optics Letters 2015, 40(10), 2329-2332.
  • Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Exploiting the dispersion of the double-negative-index fishnet metamaterial to create a broadband low-profile metallic lens. Optics Express 2015, 23(7), 8555-8564.
  • Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Serebryannikov AE, Beruete M. Experimental demonstration of deflection angle tuning in unidirectional fishnet metamaterials at millimeter-waves. Applied Physics Letters 2015, 106(6), 061109-1-5.
  • Torres V, Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Teniente J, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Experimental demonstration of a millimeter-wave metallic ENZ lens based on the energy squeezing principle. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2015, 63(1), 231-239.
  • Minin IV, Minin OV, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. All-dielectric periodic terajet waveguide using an array of coupled cuboids. Applied Physics Letters 2015, 106(25), 254102.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Engheta N. Advances in ε-Near-Zero Metamaterial Devices. Optics and Photonics News 2015, December.
  • Beaskoetxea U, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Akalin T, Maci S, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M. 77 GHz High Gain Bull’s-Eye antenna with sinusoidal profile. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2015, 14, 205.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Beaskoetxea U, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Zoned near-zero refractive index fishnet lens antenna: Steering millimeter waves. Journal of Applied Physics 2014, 115, 124902-1-8.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Minin IV, Minin OV. Terajets produced by dielectric cuboids. Applied Physics Letters 2014, 105, 084102-1-4.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Mechanical 144 GHz beam steering with all-metallic epsilon-near-zero lens antenna. Applied Physics Letters 2014, 105(24), 243503-1-5.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Engheta N. e-near-zero (ENZ) graded index quasi-optical devices: steering and splitting millimeter waves. Journal of Optics 2014, 16(9), 094009-1-7.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Ultra-compact planoconcave zoned metallic lens based on the fishnet metamaterial. Applied Physics Letters 2013, 103(18), 183507.
  • Torres V, Pacheco-Peña V, Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Terahertz epsilon-near-zero graded-index lens. Optics Express 2013, 21, 9156-9166.
  • Beruete M, Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Serebryannikov AE. Frozen mode from hybridized extraordinary transmission and Fabry-Perot resonances. Physical Review B 2013, 87, 205128-1-9.

• Book Chapter

  • Pacheco-Peña V, Yakovlev A. Computing with square electromagnetic pulses. In: Adamatzky A, ed. Handbook of Unconventional Computing: Volume 2: Implementations. Singapore: World Scientific, 2021, pp.465-492.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Ventisei A, Macdonald RG, Knightley T, Riley JA, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Utilizing Petri-Nets to represent electromagnetic waveguide junction switching processes. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Riley JA, Horak M, Krapek V, Pacheco-Peña V. Using Babinet’s principle in plasmonics for dielectric sensing. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Knightley T, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Temporal differentiation by neural network designed multilayer metamaterial. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Space-time effective media enabled by spatial interfaces and temporal boundaries: a four-dimensional approach. In: The 17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2023. 2023, Crete, Greece: Metamaterials.
  • Pacheco-Peña V. Routing, switching and computing using electromagnetic waves”. In: Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium – PIERS 2023. 2023, Prague: PIERS The Electromagnetics Academy.
  • Horak M, Calkovsky V, Krapek V, Riley JA, Pacheco-Peña V, Mach J, Sikola T. Plasmon Resonances in Ga Nanoparticles and Plasmonic Antennas for Biosensing. In: 13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2023). 2023, Paris, France: META Conference.
  • Riley JA, Nicolussi M, Pacheco-Peña V. Near-zero reflection by Parity-time symmetry in rectangular waveguides emulating Epsilon-Near-Zero media. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Ventisei A, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Modelling of interconnected electromagnetic waveguide junctions using Petri-nets. In: The 17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2023. 2023, Chania, Greece: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Manipulation of waves in four dimensions with space-time media. In: Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium – PIERS 2023. 2023, Prague: PIERS The Electromagnetics Academy.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. How to exploit light-matter interactions in space (x,y,z) and time (t) to enable spatiotemporal effective materials?. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023). 2023, Munich, Germany: IEEE.
  • Riley JA, Minin OV, Minin IV, Pacheco-Peña V. Generating photonic hooks using dual-dielectric designs. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Four-dimensional media: from zero temporal reflections to effective media. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Macdonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting Waveguide Networks to Calculate Solutions of Partial Differential Equations. In: The 17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2023. 2023, Chania, Greece: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Rogers William, Johnson-Richards C, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Enabling perfect splitting using four-port interconnected rectangular waveguides. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, Sapporo, Japan: URSI GASS.
  • Riley JA, Horak M, Krapek V, Pacheco-Peña V. Dielectric sensing by Babinet’s principle in plasmonics. In: The 17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2023. 2023, Crete, Greece: Metamaterials.
  • Riley JA, Horak M, Krapek V, Pacheco-Peña V. Designing plasmonic sensors using Babinet's principle. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023). 2023, Munich, Germany: IEEE.
  • Macdonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Arbitrary order analogue differentiation using transmission line techniques. In: XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2023. 2023, URSI GASS.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. What is the temporal analogue of the spatial Brewster angle?. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC). 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain: IEEE.
  • Knightley T, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Temporal differentiation using multi-layered metamaterials designed via Neural Networks. In: UK Semiconductors 2022. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Riley JA, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Tailoring surface plasmon polaritons for lensing applications. In: UK Semiconductors 2022. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Riley JA, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Producing surface plasmon polariton focusing using all-metallic devices. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC). 2022, Gran Canaria: IEEE.
  • Riley JA, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. On the performance of plasmonic meniscus lenses for surface plasmon focusing. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC). 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain: IEEE.
  • Macdonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. On the calculation of temporal derivatives using interconnected parallel plate waveguides. In: UK Semiconductors 2022. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Solís DM, Engheta N. Four-Dimensional (4D) Light Manipulation. In: CLEO: Applications and Technology 2022. 2022, San Jose: Optica Publishing Group.
  • MacDonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting waveguide junctions for the switching of transverse electromagnetic pulses of non-constant amplitude. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC 2022). 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain: IEEE.
  • MacDonald RG, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting transmission line theory to calculate temporal derivatives. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC 2022). 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain: URSI.
  • Jáuregui-López I, Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Electric Field Enhancement in THz Tripod Metasurfaces for Sensing Applications. In: XXXVII Simposio Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2022. 2022, Málaga.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Controlling wave-matter interactions at will with spatiotemporally modulated media. In: UK Semiconductors 2022. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Aljuaid W, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Attaching truncated dielectric particles to optical fibres to produce high resolution focusing for potential imaging and sensing systems. In: UK Semiconductors 2022. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Yakovlev A, Macdonald RG, Ventisei A, Knightley T, Aljuaid W, Rogers W, Riley JA, Pacheco-Peña V. (Invited) From TEM pulse switching to computing with light”, 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting. In: 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC). 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain: IEEE.
  • Jáuregui-López I, Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. THz Tripod Metasurfaces for Sensing Applications: From the Basic, to More Elaborated Designs. In: Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) 2021. 2021, NYC, NY, USA: IEEE.
  • Yakovlev A, MacDonald RG, Ventisei A, Knightley T, Riley J, Pacheco-Peña V. TEM pulse routing and switching via series and parallel interconnected waveguide crossings. In: Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) 2021. 2021, NYC, NY, USA: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Yakovlev A. Routing TEM pulses with interconnected transmission lines for computing applications with electromagnetic waves. In: XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science. 2021, Rome, Italy: URSI GASS.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Real-time control of direction of energy propagation of electromagnetic waves with null temporal reflection via temporal metamaterials. In: Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) 2021. 2021, NYC, NY, USA: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Linear-to-circular polarization conversion using time-dependent metamaterials. In: 11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics META 2021. 2021.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Exploiting time-dependent metamaterials for frequency conversion in guided-wave structures. In: 11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2021). 2021, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Riley J, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting the concept of effective media to manipulate surface plasmons without dielectrics. In: XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science. 2021, Rome, Italy: Union Radio Scientifique Internationale - URSI.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Exploiting temporal boundaries in temporal metamaterials for real-time control of electromagnetic wave propagation. In: IEEE COMCAS 2021. 2021, IEEE.
  • Riley J, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Exploiting meniscus lenses for surface plasmons focusing. In: XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science. 2021, Rome, Italy: URSI GASS.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Engineering spatiotemporal metamaterials for 4D wave-mater interaction control. In: XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science. 2021, Rome, Italy: URSI GASS.
  • Riley J, Healy N, Pacheco-Peña V. Controlling surface plasmons using all-metallic structures. In: 11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics META 2021. 2021, Poland.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Control de ondas electromagnéticas en tiempo real a través de metamateriales modulados en el tiempo. In: XXXVI Simposium Nacional de la Union Cientifica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2021. 2021, Madrid, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Alves Rúben, Navarro-Cía M. Plasmonic nanoantennas and nanocavities: a transformation electromagnetics perspective. In: 2020 XXXIIIrd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science. 2020, Rome, Italy: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Overcoming the diffraction limit with high-index dielectric particles. In: Thirteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2019). 2019, Rome, Italy: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Alves R, Navarro-Cía M. Impact of plasmonic bowtie nanoantennas and nanocavities on the dynamics of nearby nanoemitters. In: META 2019, the 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N. Controlling wave-matter interaction in 4 dimensions: from 3D to 4D metamaterials. In: Rank Prize Symposium on Parallels Between Acoustics and EM Radiation in Structured Materials. 2019, Grasmere.
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  • Navarro-Cia M, Pacheco-Peña V, Kuznetsov SA, Beruete M. The role of leaky-waves in high-performance extraordinary THz transmission quasi-optical filters. In: Photon 2018. 2018, Birmingham, UK: Institute of Physics.
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  • Kiasat Y, Pacheco-Peña V, Edwards B, Engheta N. Temporal Metamaterials with Non-Foster Networks. In: CLEO 2018. 2018, San Jose, California, USA.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Navarro-Cia M. Understanding Bowtie nanoantennas excited by a localized emitter. In: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (2017). 2017, San Diego, CA, USA: IEEE.
  • Legaria S, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Performance of Binary Fresnel Lenses using metamaterials. In: 11th International Congress on Engineered Materials Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena Metamaterials 2017. 2017, Marseille, France.
  • Legaria S, Pacheco-Peña V, Perez-Escudero JM, Beruete M. Perfeccionamiento de lentes binarias de Fresnel utilizando metamateriales. In: XXXII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2017. 2017, Cartagena, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Engheta N, Kuznetsov S, Gentselev A, Beruete M. Enfoque de ondas de terahercio a través de una lente metálica ENZ de índice gradual. In: XXXII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2017. 2017, Cartagena, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Dimer and trimer nanoantennas from a transformation optics perspective. In: The 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META'17. 2017, Seoul, South Korea.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Orazbayev B, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. V-Band Reference-Phase-Based Zoned Fishnet Metalens. In: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/USNC-URSI National Radio Science meeting (2016). 2016, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Navarro-Cia M. Transformation electromagnetics for nanoantennas and localized emitters. In: XXXI Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2016. 2016, Madrid, Spain.
  • Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Pacheco-Peña V, Crespo G, Teniente J, Navarro-Cia M. Soret Lens-Antenna based on the Fishnet Metamaterial. In: The 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2016). 2016, Davos, Switzerland.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Torres V, Orazbayev B, Navarro-Cia M, Engheta N. Permittivity-Near-Zero (ENZ) Meta-devices at THz Frequencies. In: EMN meeting on THz Energy Materials Nanotechnology 2016. 2016, San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M. Optical Focusing via Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Metalens. In: META’16, the 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (2016). 2016, Malaga, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Nanojets fotónicos excitados por plasmones de superficie a través de cuboides dieléctricos 3D. In: XXXI Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2016. 2016, Madrid, Spain.
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  • Minin IV, Minin OV, Nefedov I, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Beam compressed system based on dielectric cluster of self-similar three-dimensional dielectric cuboids. In: Global Symposium on Millimeter Waves (GSMM) & ESA Workshop on Millimetre-Wave Technology and Applications (2016). 2016, Espoo, Finland.
  • Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Zoning Technique for a Broadband Fishnet Metamaterial Lens. In: 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz 2015. 2015, Hong Kong, China: IEEE.
  • Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Zoned fishnet metamaterial lens with millimeter wave dual-band response. In: 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015). 2015, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Minin IV, Minin OV. Terajets basados en Cuboides Dieléctricos: Propiedades Focales de alta resolución. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Orazbayev B, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. Lentes Zonadas con Referencia de Fase Basadas en el Metamaterial Tipo Fishnet. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Pacheco-Peña V, Crespo G, Teniente J, Navarro-Cia M. Lente de Soret Basada en el Metamaterial Fishnet. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Minin IV, Minin OV, Suslyaev VI, Dorofeev IO, Yakubov VP, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M. Investigation of some new focusing properties of cuboid-aided photonic jet. In: Proceedings of the VI International Conference Actual Problems of Radiophysics APR – 2015. 2015, Tomsk, Russia.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Haritoshin NA, Minin IV, Minin OV, Beruete M. High resolution Terajets via 3D dielectric cuboids at THz frequencies. In: 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2015. 2015, Oxford, UK.
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  • Beaskoetxea U, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Akalin T, Maci S, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M. High Gain Flat 77GHz Sinusoidal Bull’s Eye. In: The 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015). 2015, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Pacheco-Peña V, Falcone F, Navarro-Cia M, Serebryannikov AE, Beruete M. Experimental Demonstration of Deflection Angle Tuning in Diffraction-Inspired Unidirectional Structures. In: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. 2015, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Torres V, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Teniente J, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Epsilon-near-zero lens for beamshaping of sub-terahertz waves. In: 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz 2015. 2015, Hong Kong, China: IEEE.
  • Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M, Torres V, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Astafev MA, Kuznetsov SA. Dispositivos de ondas milimétricas y terahercio basados en medios y superficies artificiales. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Serebryannikov AE. Deflection Angle Tuning in Thin Structures with Diffraction Inspired Unidirectionality. In: 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015). 2015, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Pacheco-Peña V, Navarro-Cia M, Serebryannikov AE, Beruete M. Control del ángulo de deflexión en estructuras unidireccionales basadas en placas agujereadas en terminadas en una red de difracción dieléctrica. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Beruete M, Fernandez-Dominguez AI, Luo Y, Navarro-Cia M. Conformal transformation for nanoantennas. In: 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2015). 2015, New York, NY, USA.
  • Beaskoetxea U, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Akalin T, Maci S, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M. Antena Bull’s Eye de Ondas de Fuga de Perfil Senoidal para Aplicaciones Radar. In: XXX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2015. 2015, Pamplona, Spain.
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  • Torres V, Orazbayev B, Pacheco-Peña V, Teniente J, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Engheta M. 144 GHz Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Lens. In: The 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015). 2015, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Torres V, Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Teniente J, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. 144 GHz Epsilon-near-zero Lens Antenna. In: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting. 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada: IEEE.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Slimming the Fishnet Metamaterial lens. In: 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014. 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands: IEEE.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Engheta N. Plano-concave lens based on ultra-narrow hollow rectangular waveguides mimicking an effective ENZ medium. In: XXIX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2014. 2014, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Orazbayev B, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Engheta N. Focusing Millimetre Waves by Means of a Permittivity-Near Zero Narrow-Waveguide Lens. In: 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Metamaterials 2014. 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Rodriguez-Ulibarri P, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. Focusing Millimeter Waves Using a Zoned Fishnet Metalens. In: 14th Mediterran Microwave Symposium 2014. 2014, Marrakech, Morocco: IEEE.
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  • Pacheco-Peña V, Orazbayev B, Beaskoetxea U, Torres V, Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M. All-metallic Zoned Fishnet Metamaterial Lens for the Unlicensed Millimetre-wave V-band. In: 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Metamaterials 2014. 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Epsilon-Near-Zero graded index structure as a bi-concave metallic lens using stacked rectangular near cut-off waveguides. In: The 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2013). 2013.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Navarro-Cia M, Beruete M, Sorolla M, Engheta N. Plano-Planar lenses using e near-zero stacked waveguides at millimeter waves. In: The 6th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials 2012). 2012.
  • Pacheco-Peña V, Torres V, Navarro-Cía M, Beruete M, Sorolla M. Lentes ENZ de perfil plano basadas en guías de onda apiladas. In: XXVII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI 2012. 2012.

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