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December 14, 2018 - New York, NY Invited seminar at New York University December 17, 2018 - New York, NY Invited seminar at Queens College January 3-6, 2019 - Seefeld, Austria Invited talk at Nanometa January 6-11, 2019 - Snowbird, UT Plenary talk at PQE 2019

Metasurfaces and Metamaterials We have introduced the concept of nonperiodic metamaterials and metasurfaces with controlled variations along an axis of choice, providing new degrees of freedom for light manipulation at the nanoscale. Our MURI effort on this topic.

Cloaking and Invisibility One of the most exciting applications of metamaterials: our group has pioneered the use of plasmonic and mantle cloaks for drastic scattering suppression of radio-waves, infrared, matter, sound and light waves.

Plenary talk at SPIE Optics & Photonics (2016)

Metamaterial Devices and Components Our group has proposed several exciting concepts to apply metamaterials and plasmonics for novel devices to manipulate, process and tailor radio-waves, THz, infrared, optical and sound signals.

Optical Nanoantennas and Nanocircuits We have put forward several innovative concepts to tailor emission, radiation, scattering, absorption and optical signal processing at the nanoscale, inspired to established concepts of RF antennas and circuits. Our MURI effort on this topic.

Andrea Alù at TEDxAustin Click here to download text

December 9, 2018: Our paper on coherent cooptics for energy transfer, storage and release has been published in Optics and Photonics News, Year in Optics, as one of the featured news for optics research in 2018. November 15, 2017: Andrea Alù has been selected as 2018 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. November 12, 2018: Our paper on structural coloration with silicon nanopillars, in collaboration with our UT Austin colleagues, has been published in Optics Express and selected as Editor’s Pick. October 24, 2018: Our paper on nonlocal metasurfaces for optical analog computing has been published in Physical Review Letters. October 23, 2018: Positions open for tenured and tenure- track faculty at the ASRC Photonics Initiative. October 1, 2018: Andrea Alù has been elected to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administrative Committe.

Welcome to Andrea Alù’s research group webpage Andrea Alù is the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. His research interests span over a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.