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April 16-18, 2019 - Washington, DC Keynote talk at SPIE Defense and Commercial Ssensing April 22, 2019 - New York, NY Invited seminar at Columbia University April 22-26, 2019 - Phoenix, AZ Invited talk at MRS Spring April 25, 2019 - Long Island, NY Invited seminar at American Physical Society April 26, 2019 - Brookheaven, NY Invited seminar at Center for Functional Nanomaterials

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

April 12, 2019: Our paper on anti-parity-time symmetry in thermal diffusive systems, in collaboration with C.W. Qiu’s group, has been published in Science. April 9, 2019: Andrea Alù has been appointed on the editorial board of Applied Physics Letters. April 5, 2019: Andrea Alù has been elected President of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (Metamorphose). April 5, 2019: Our alumn Prof. Francesco Monticone has received the EurAAP Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics. March 29, 2019: Our alumn Prof. Ali Miri has received the Henry Wasser award for outstanding Assistant Professors in CUNY. March 24, 2019: Our paper on acoustic supercoupling in a zero-compressibility metamaterial has been published in Research. February 23, 2019: Prof. Younes Radi has received an URSI Young Scientist Award. February 11, 2019: Our paper on separation of valley excitons using an asymmewtric metasurface has been published in Nature Photonics. [RedCube]

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.