SIOF-Plasmonica

Efficient GHz electro-optical modulation with a nonlocal lithium niobate metasurface in the linear and nonlinear regime - Nature Communications A lithium niobate nonlocal metasurface with high-Q (~8000) resonances demonstrates efficient GHz-rate reflectivity modulation (~0.1) and one order of magnitude second harmonic modulation using sub-10V...

Just out our joint paper with UniBS and @ethz.ch on GHz speed modulation of linear and nonlinear light with a lithium niobate metasurface! Thanks @agostino.bsky.social @attilio-zilli.bsky.social @rachelgrange.bsky.social & the ETH team for this awesome collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you graduated during 2024 (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) in #optics or #photonics at an Italian institution, do not miss the chance to apply for a #thesis #award from the Italian optical society (SIOF). Info and calls 📃 on www.siof-ottica.it/categories/n.... ONE WEEK LEFT before the deadline of 31/07/2025! ⌛

Alessio Gabbani (standing, from left) and Francesco Pineider announcing the PLASMONICA 2026 workshop in Pisa at our annual Round Table in Modena.

The seat of the next edition of the workshop has been announced🥁🥁: beautiful Pisa will host #PLASMONICA2026! Kudos to all the organizers for stepping in: Francesco Pineider, Alessandro Tredicucci, Giuseppe Barillaro, Andrea Tomadin (#UniPi); Alessio Gabbani (#UniFi); Chiara Cappelli (@sns.it).

...by broadening the traditional scope of the conference, seen also that #nanophotonics 💡 is now much more mature field than it was at the inception of the #PLASMONICA series. Therefore we are looking forward to repeat the experiment in #PLASMONICA2026! Let us know your thoughts in the replies! 🗨️

#PLASMONICA2025 hosted for the first time in its history a Special Session organized with an industrial partner, namely, the Smart Eyewear Lab – a joint initiative of #EssilorLuxottica and #PoliMi.

We think it has been an effective way to draw in actors outside academia and reach new audiences...🧵

One last round of applause 👏👏👏 to the whole Organizing Committee - particularly to Stefania Benedetti and Luca Bursi - for the flawless unfolding of #PLASMONICA2025, and thanks again to #UniMoRe and #CNR-NANO for hosting us!

#PLASMONICA2025 is now over, and we know that many participants stayed in the area for the weekend 😎 while others headed home already 🚞. We wish all of you a safe trip back and hope to see you again at future events of our Community 🌈 (to be announced here within few days...)

... and the group picture 📷 of #PLASMONICA2025 is out! We are such a good-looking Community ☺️

They both bring home a pack of artisanal #tortellini, the local fresh pasta specialty 😋!

Best Oral 🏆 at #PLASMONICA2025 to Jonathan Barolak from #UniPavia for his talk "Automated design of one-dimensional #photonic crystals for all-optical image processing".
Best poster 🏅 to Shukun Weng from #IIT Genova for his poster "Electrically tunable ion transportation of MoS2/SiN nanochannel".

#PLASMONICA2025 is drawing to a close today, but the last coffee break and poster session were still lively! Complesso San Geminiano has been a fantastic venue and the shadowy porticos 🏛️ of the historical centre of #Modena helped us cope with an early summer heatwave 🫠.

The final day of #PLASMONICA2025 has started with the invited talk on “Plasmonics for energy and #sustainability“ 🔋🔆🌱 given by Emiliano Cortés from
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
. If you missed the talk, you can catch up by reading this comment article: doi.org/10.1038/s415....

A snapshot of @paunessa.bsky.social’s talk yesterday in the beautiful Sant Giminiano convent at @plasmonica.bsky.social 🔬 Don’t miss the chance to approach him if you’re still around!

#PLASMONICA2025

Yigong Luan applied our signature nonlinear interferometry technique for all-optical polarization encoding and modulation with an ultrathin dielectric grating - see doi.org/10.48550/arX... and soon on 💡Light: Science & Applications.

The recent activity of our #Nano-optics Lab at #PoliMi (@vynisle.bsky.social, @paolobiagioni.bsky.social, and Marco Finazzi) is being showcased today at #PLASMONICA2025. Yaping Hou shows lithium niobate #metasurfaces for electro-optics. The enhancement of SHG by a qBIC was measured just few day ago!

Today at #PLASMONICA2025 we witnessed the dawn of "nanoporonics"! Denis Garoli from #UniMoRe abd #IIT Genova showed us (logic) gates realized with #plasmonic #nanopores 🕳️

The special session "Metasurfaces for smart vision and imaging" organized by the Smart Eyewear Lab (#EssilorLuxottica & Politecnico di Milano #Polimi) just started 🕶! Bert Hecht from @uni-wuerzburg.de kicks it off with individually addressable #plasmonic #nanoscale OLEDs (🌐 doi.org/10.48550/arX...).

Our whole Steering Committee is attending #PLASMONICA2025 and with the occasion we took a picture of them together at the Round Table! From left to right: Emilija Petronijevic, @ninofoti.bsky.social, Nicoletta Granchi, @attilio-zilli.bsky.social, and Chiara Novara.

At our coffee break you can get an Italian Espresso so Ristretto that it fits you nanocup 😉

The second day of #PLASMONICA2025 has started 🔔 with an invited talk on "Sensing electromagnetic landscapes in 3D with single molecules and nm resolution" by Valentina Krachmalnicoff from @instlangevin.bsky.social Paris. We're having the time of our lifetime 😏!

🎺🎺 #PLASMONICA2025 has finally started! Alejandro Manjavacas (Theoretical #Nanophotonics group in @iqf-csic.bsky.social, Madrid) kicked it off with an invited talk on the "Collective lattice resonances in complex arrays of nanostructures".

Last reminder ⏲️ of the early 🐦 deadline of #PLASMONICA2025: register by tomorrow (June 6) to enjoy a discounted rate. And you are still in time to submit an abstract to present a poster too! See the 🧵 below and 🌐 plasmonica2025.nano.cnr.it for all the info, including the scientific programme.

Procrastinators,🕚 rejoice! The call for abstract📝 by #PLASMONICA2025 has been extended until April 11th. All info on the workshop in the 🧵 below, including scientific topics and invited speakers. 10 more days to collect that last stubborn data point 📊 that you wanted to include in your abstract...

Just one week left ⏳⌛📆 to submit your abstract to #PLASMONICA2025! Check out all the info in the 🧵 below, including scientific topics and invited speakers.

The third invited talk at #PLASMONICA2025, titled "Collective Lattice Resonances in Complex Arrays of Nanostructures", will be delivered by Alejandro Manjavacas from IQF-CSIC Madrid! Browse at 🌐 nanophotonics.iqf.csic.es the broad-ranging research activity 🔎 of his Theoretical #Nanophotonics group.

New paper out! We coated #plasmonic #nanoparticles with an epsilon-near-zero #enz “coat” of Al-doped ZnO, tunable in size, thickness, and doping!

Kudos to Quynh Nguyen for her amazing work!

If you love nanomaterials synthesis, plasmonics, and non-linear optics, check here: doi.org/10.1039/D4TC...

The second invited speaker at #PLASMONICA2025 is Valentina Krachmalnicoff from Institut Langevin Paris! She is known for her contributions to near-field #optics and #fluorescence lifetime #microscopy and she will talk about "Sensing 3D electromagnetic landscapes with single emitters at the nm scale"

We are glad to announce Emiliano Cortés from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social as an invited speaker at #PLASMONICA2025! Emiliano will share with us his world-class expertise on the topic of #Plasmonics for energy and sustainability 🥬. Check out 🌐 nano-energy.org to learn more about his research activity.

This year you can also submit your abstract to the special session "Metasurfaces for smart vision and imaging" 🕶organized by the Smart Eyewear Lab (www.essilorluxottica.com/it/careers/s...), a joint initiative between EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano.

- Nanoantennas + metasurfaces
- Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics
- Quantum, thermo- and magneto-plasmonics
- Surface- and tip- enhanced spectroscopy
- Strong coupling in nanoscale systems
- Plasmonic (bio)sensing
- Optical forces
- Semiconductor and THz plasmonics
- Novel optical nanomaterials