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December 1-6, 2024 - Boston, MA 2 invited talks at MRS Fall January 6-10, 2025 - Snowbird, UT Invited talk at PQE 2025 January 25-30, 2025 - San Francisco, CA 3 invited talks at SPIE Photonics West January 29-31, 2025 - Princeton, NJ Invited talk at Topological Dynamics Workshop

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.

Non-Reciprocity and Topology Our group has been exploring several exciting concepts to exploit symmetry- breaking to enable extreme wave phenomena (see our MURI and STC efforts), including 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.

Andrea Alù at TEDxAustin Click here to download text

November 30, 2024: Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2024 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate. November 14, 2024: Our paper on subambient daytime radiative cooling of vertical surfaces has been published in Science, with a commentary in Physics Today. August 7, 2024: Our paper on space-time nonlocal metasurfaces for event-based detection has been published in Physical Review Letters. June 28, 2024: Our paper on hyperbolic shear metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters and featured as Editor’s Suggestion. June 10, 2024: Andrea Alù has joined the ISSNAF Scientific Council. [Interview] June 6, 2024: Andrea Alù has received the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for seminal contributions to the field of photonic metamaterials and their applications. May 27, 2024: Our paper on reconfigurable all-optical computing metasurfaces has been published in Nature Communications.

Blavatnik National Award for Physics and Engineering

Welcome to Andrea Alù’s research group webpage Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor, 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.