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Il Cele @vynisle.bsky.social · Aug 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...

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 29

#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...🧵

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 29

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).

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

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 28

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".

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 28

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!

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 28

#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...)

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 26

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...).

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 27

#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 🫠.

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 27

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....

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Jun 26

Last but not least, Vaishnavi Sajeev has contributed with a poster related to her work on active #THz #plasmonics, which she performed in Mahindra University (Hyderabad, India) before joining us #PoliMi. If you are in #PLASMONICA2025, poster sessions are ongoin until tomorrow!

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Jun 26

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!

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎺🎺 #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".

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 26

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 😏!

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Feb 19

Submissions are open for #PLASMONICA2025, the workshop on #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics 💡, organized this year by #UniMoRe and #CNR-NANO! Further information and abstract templates at plasmonica2025.nano.cnr.it. The deadline for submission is 31 March ⏲️; we wait for you in #Modena! Topics include:👇

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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Feb 19

Submissions are open for #PLASMONICA2025, the workshop on #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics 💡, organized this year by #UniMoRe and #CNR-NANO! Further information and abstract templates at plasmonica2025.nano.cnr.it. The deadline for submission is 31 March ⏲️; we wait for you in #Modena! Topics include:👇

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Mar 21

A carefully curated line-up of invited speakers 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 at #PLASMONICA2025 🇮🇹 proposing a selection of diverse and timely topics in #nano-optics 💡. Can't wait to meet them in Modena. Check the whole 🧵👇 to discover them all!

SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Mar 6

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.

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Attilio Zilli @attilio-zilli.bsky.social · Mar 21

I am very happy of being involved in this collaboration between Andrea and Quynh @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and us at #PoliMi! Can't wait to so some nonlinear optical measurements 🔬🔩💡 with these beautiful new #nanoparticles ⚗️

Andrea Baldi @andreabaldi.bsky.social · Mar 14

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...

Tailoring core size, shell thickness, and aluminium doping of Au@ZnO core@shell nanoparticles

Plasmonic materials, such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), exhibit significant extinction and near-field enhancement across the visible and near-infrared spectrum, attributable to localized surface plas...

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Mar 1

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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