SIOF-Plasmonica

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, that will host the 5th edition of the PLASMONICA International School on Plasmonics and Nano-optics.

The frontal lectures ☝️ at #PLASMONICAschool2026 will be complemented by:
💡 seminars on the latest trends in the field
👩‍💻 hands-on tutorials
📝 active learning tasks
🎈 social events
DO check out the full program on our website (www.plasmonica.it/2026school)
DON'T forget to apply by 📅 Sunday 16/11
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Have you been living under a rock and never heard about #PLASMONICAschool2026? No worries: it's not too late to join our School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics 💡: there is still one week left to apply ⌛. Check all the info in the 🧵 below 👇 and at 🌐 www.plasmonica.it/2026school/.

The last lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Francesco Monticone from Cornell University (US 🇺🇸). Francesco is an expert on exotic and innovative electromagnetic phenomena in nanophotonics 🔬 and we will learn from him the “Fundamentals of light interaction with complex media and metamaterials”. 🧵/5

The third lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Monika Fleischer from the University of Tübingen (DE 🇩🇪), where she leads the Plasmonic nanostructures research group. She will teach us to understand and exploit the interaction between single nanoantennas 📡 and emitters, e.g. for optical sensing 🦠. 🧵/4

The second lecturer in the lineup of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Marian Florescu from the University of Southampton (UK). He is an expert in ordered and disordered nanophotonic materials 💠💠. His lectures will focus on Hyperuniformity and local self-uniformity in photonic 💡 systems. 🧵/3

Nonlinear plasmonic sensing, but monitoring changes in the wavevector ↙️↘️ rather than wavelength domain. Kudos 🙌 to the perseverance of A. Verneuil, joint Ph.D. of @uttroyes.bsky.social (A.-L. Baudrion) and #PoliMi (
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....

The first lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 will be @jacopobertolotti.com from University of Exeter (UK). He is an expert of imaging through scattering media 👓 and optical computing 💻 and will teach us the fundamentals of optical wave scattering from single particles and in diffusive media 🥛.

📢Applications are open for #PLASMONICAschool2026 — the 5th edition of our International School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics! 👩‍🏫

📅 23–27 March 2026
📍 Arcetri, Florence (Italy)
⏳ Deadline for applications: Nov 7th
📝 Info and submission: www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
📩 Contact: school@plasmonica.it

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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.