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May 27-31, 2019 - San Diego, CA Four invited talks at URSI EMTS June 2-7, 2019 - Boston, MA Invited talk at IMS June 2-7, 2019 - Tucson, AZ Plenary talk at Phononics June 17-21, 2019 - Roma, Italy Keynote and 3 invited talks at PIERS 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

May 31, 2019: Prof. Younes Radi has received aURSI Young Scientist Award and the 2nd prize at the Young Scientist Best Paper Award at URSI EMTS 2019, with the paper ‘Nonreciprocal Wavefront Manipulation in Bianisotropic Moving Metagratings’. May 31, 2019: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was selected also in 2016, 2017 and 2018. May 17, 2019: Our paper on all-optical reconfigurable chiral metamolecules has been featured on the cover of Materials Today. May 1, 2019: Andrea Alù has received the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense. [Press release] 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.

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.