The last lively poster session of the #PLASMONICA2026 workshop is under way! Most communities feel like posters are reserved to those results too preliminary or otherwise undeserving of an oral presentation slot; conversely... 🧵/1
Attilio Zilli
@attilio-zilli.bsky.social
Researcher in optics at Politecnico di Milano. Behind the scenes in @plasmonica.bsky.social. Mens Xanax in corpore Maloox.
At #PLASMONICA2026 early-career researchers were awarded prizes in memory of our much-missed co-founder Prof. Alessandro Belardini in presence of his family. 👏👏 Sveva Sodomaco @sns.it for the best talk and Marzia Ferrera #EPFL #IIT Genova for the best poster - 3rd and 2nd from the right respectively
Next year our annual workshop will move back south with an organizing team from #UniCal università della Calabria and #CNR-NANOTEC spearheaded by Antonio Ferraro. 🚩Rende (CS), Calabria 🗓️ 8 - 10 september, 2027 This time we announced early, so no excuses 😉 we wait for you at #PLASMONICA2027!
At #PLASMONICA2027 our new Steering Committee was elected 🗳️, which will organise the activities of our community and keep it thriving. Thanks to all candidates for stepping up and best wishes to the newly elected ones 👏👏 listed below 👇
The group picture of the #PLASMONICA2026 workshop is finally out! We look like an awesome community 😍
If you are attending the #PLASMONICA2026 workshop, do not forget to pay a a visit to the sponsor's exhibition 🎪 with stalls from OPTOPRIM Italia, Crisel Instruments, attocube systems, dB ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS SRL, and @thorlabs.bsky.social .
The last day of the #PLASMONICA2026 conference with an invited talk by Lorenzo Tesi from @unistuttgart.bsky.social. He just pushed the frequency range of our conference down to the THz showing us his plasmonic metasurface 🎀 resonators for for magnetic resonance 🧲 spectroscopy.
The Job Ads Board at the #PLASMONICA2026 Workshop has started to populate! Eight years ago I found a new position #PoliMi at a PLASMONICA event, and have been there since. May it work for you as well?!
#PLASMONICA2026 was kickstarted by the first invited speaker, Paola Borri from Cardiff University School of Biosciences. She explained how single gold nanoparticles can be tracked by coherent nonlinear optical techniques, and thus serve as microscopy tags for imaging complex biological systems 🦠.
The #PLASMONICA2026 workshop is currently underway in the beautiful town of Pisa! a fantastic opportunity for the Italian community of nano-optics to gather and get up to date with the latest work of colleagues in Italy and beyond!
The second day of #PLASMONICA2026 is opened by the invited speaker Jacinto Sà from Uppsala University @uu.se providing precious insight into his research at the forefront of plasmon-based nanocatalysis ⚗️.
Bring a mate and don't be late!
SIOF-Plasmonica@plasmonica.bsky.social · 4mo agoProcrastinators,🕚 rejoice! The call for abstract📝 by #PLASMONICA2026 has been extended until April 26th. All info on the workshop in the 🧵 below. Last few days to collect that last stubborn data point 📊 that you wanted to include in your abstract...
Procrastinators,🕚 rejoice! The call for abstract📝 by #PLASMONICA2026 has been extended until April 26th. All info on the workshop in the 🧵 below. Last few days to collect that last stubborn data point 📊 that you wanted to include in your abstract...
SIOF-Plasmonica@plasmonica.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat a day today 😅: we are also announcing the call for abstracts 📥 for our yearly workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics💡 #PLASMONICA2026 is open! 📅 8-10 July, 2026 in Pisa #UniPi #CNR-NANO @sns.it + free entry for junior researchers. All details at 🌐https://www.plasmonica.it/2026/. 🧵/1
Congratulations to our PhD student at sNOm Lab @vynisle.bsky.social Fabrizio Conti (left) for a best poster prize at #PlasmonicaSchool2026!
Fabrizio Conti (front) and Zhifan Dai (back) valently representing our sNOm group @vynisle.bsky.social #PoliMi at the #Poster session #PlasmonicaSchool2026.
Christmas lights in the lab🎄with supercontinuum generation 🔆 - Best wishes to all for the festive season!
Behind the curtains, lot of hard work is being put in by the organizing team spearheaded by Francesco Pineider and Alessio Gabbani. This promises to be another top notch #PLASMONICA Workshop and for sure I will not miss it!
SIOF-Plasmonica@plasmonica.bsky.social · 9mo agoAll I want for Xmas is... 🎁 a Workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics💡! For its 12th edition, #PLASMONICA2026 will finally reach #Pisa. It will be hosted by the Univ. of Pisa #UniPi and supported by #CNR-NANO, @sns.it, SIOF, and EOS @europeanoptics.bsky.social. #SaveTheDate 📅 8-10 July, 2026. 🧵/1
Procrastinators, rejoice! The deadline to apply for #PLASMONICAschool2026 has been extended until November 16th ⏰. Bring a mate and don't be late!
SIOF-Plasmonica@plasmonica.bsky.social · 10mo agoHave 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/.
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....
Pardon me for shamelessly advertising our recent work on nonlinear interferometry (by Yigong Luan supervised by Marco Finazzi, @vynisle.bsky.social, and myself at #PoliMi) also now featured on the homepage of 💡 Light: Science and Application. Article free to read at: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale - Light: Science & Applications
We demonstrate polarization encoding of upconverted light with orthogonal polarization states into opposite diffraction orders of a metasurface, enabling all-optical tuning between linear and circular...
nature.com
@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me. Come and join us! www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
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I cannot enroll as a student any more, but you'll find me here 😉
SIOF-Plasmonica@plasmonica.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢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 🧵/1
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...
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...
nature.com
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! ⌛
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#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...🧵
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).
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".
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...)
