Members

Principle Investigator

Mehmet Ünlü

Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

Ph. D., Middle East Technical University

E-mail: munlu(at)etu.edu.tr

Office: 141, Phone: + 90 312 292 4323

Mehmet Ünlü received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 2001, 2003, and 2009, respectively.  He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at METU-MEMS Center in 2009. He served as a research scientist at Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), Ithaca, NY between 2009 and 2011, while he was working for Utah State University, Logan, UT.  He joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 2011 as a postdoctoral research fellow.  Between 2012 and 2018, he served as a faculty member at the Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He is currently serving as a faculty member at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. His major research interests are terahertz components, plasmonics, optoelectronics, NEMS, and reconfigurable circuits and antennas for microwave and millimeter-wave applications.

Prof. Ünlü received the “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Ph.D. Scholarship” between 2003 and 2009, the “Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation-METU Thesis of the Year Award” in 2009 for his Ph.D. dissertation, “Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation” and “Best Student Paper Award (3rd place) in IEEE International Microwave Symposium”  in 2013, “Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation Research Encouragement Award” in 2013, “International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award” in 2014, and “Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award” in 2015. Prof. Ünlü is a senior member of IEEE.

Graduate Students

Şekip Dalgaç

(PhD candidate, full-time)

B.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

Gaziantep University

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Iskenderun Technical University

E-mail: sdalgac(at)sivas.edu.tr

Research Area: 60-94 GHz thin film packaging

(Co-advised by Prof. Kholoud Elmabruk, SBTU)

Ahmet Oğuz Sakın

(MSc student, full-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

E-mail: asakin(at)etu.edu.tr

Research Area: Integrated optical waveguides for THz PCA arrays

Ahmet Canberk Sonğur

(MSc student, full-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

E-mail: asongur(at)etu.edu.tr

Research Area: THz time-domain antenna arrays

Beyza Akçay

(MSc student, full-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology 

E-mail: bakcay(at)etu.edu.tr

Research Area: Integrated grating couplers for THz PCA arrays

Osman Bera Akkaya

(MSc student, full-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology 

E-mail: -

Research Area: Quantum technology

(Advised/Co-advised by Prof. Ali Bozbey)

Mustafa Nuri Akarsubaşı

(MSc student, full-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

E-mail: -

Research Area: Quantum technology

(Advised/Co-advised by Prof. Ali Bozbey)

Undergraduate Students

Abdullah Emre Akman

(BSc student, part-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

E-mail: -

Research Area: Photonic integrated circuits

Feride Reyyan Kaya

(BSc student, part-time)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

E-mail: -

Research Area: Photonic integrated circuits

Alumni

Dr. Muhammed Abdullah Unutmaz

(PhD, currently working for NIST, CO, USA)

Received "IEEE Türkiye Section Thesis of the Year" award

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Hacettepe University

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering       

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Ph.D.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering       

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Research Area: Reconfigurable Terahertz Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides and Components

Dr. Kazım Demir 

(PhD, currently working for
TUBITAK BILGEM)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Gaziantep University

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Ph.D.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Research Area: Terahertz Reconfigurable Photoconductive Antennas and Photomixers

Utku Uluer 

(MSc)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

Turkish Aeronautical Association University (Graduated with Summa Cum Laude)

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Research Area: Terahertz CMOS integrated circuits

(Co-advised by Prof. Ertan Zencir, THKU)

Hasan Alper Güneş

(MSc, currently working as a quantum/RF engineer for TOBB ETU)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Research Area: Vertical optical couplers for terahertz-on-fiber applications

(Advised by Prof. Hamza Kurt, KAIST, S. Korea)

Mesut Demircioğlu

(MSc, currently working as for ASELSAN)

B.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Research Area: Surface plasmon polariton waveguide circuits beyond 1 THz

Postdoctoral Scholars

PhD Students

MSc Students

Other Graduate Students

Long Term Interns