Metamaterial-Enhanced Technology
We have been exploring several ways in
which metamaterials can advance real-life
technology, from highly efficient opto-
electronics (see our MURI effort) to energy
harvesting, sensing, radio-wave and optical
antennas and metasurfaces.
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.
OSA Webinar (2020)
Non-Reciprocity and Topology
Our group has been exploring several
exciting concepts to exploit symmetry-
breaking to enable extreme wave
phenomena (see our MURI effort), including
large non-reciprocity and topological
metamaterials for light and
sound.
Multi-Physics Metamaterials
We have been exploring multi-physics platforms to extend
the playground of opportunities
enabled by metamaterials for
technology, including opto-mechanical
phenomena, thermal effects,
plasmonics and polaritonics.
April
14, 2021: Our paper
on
tailoring light with layered and
moiré metasurfaces has been
published in Trends in Chemistry,
and featured on the cover.
April 7, 2021: Andrea Alù has
received the 2021 Dan Maydan
Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ‘for seminal
contributions to nano-optics, nano-photonics,
plasmonics and phononics’.
March
22, 2021: Our paper
on broadband field
localization and nonlinearities in nonreciprocal and
topological hotspots has been published in Physical
Review Applied, and selected as Editors’Suggestion.
March
18, 2021: Our paper
on
wavefront-selective Fano resonant
metasurfaces has been published in
Advanced Photonics and featured on
the cover. [Press release]
March 17, 2021: Our paper
on
efficient frequency-domain analysis
of N-path time switched networks has been published
in IEEE Transactions on on Circuits and Systems, and
selected as the Paper Highlight of the Feb. 2021 issue.
March 16, 2021: Andrea
Alù has been elected
Fellow of MRS.
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.
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