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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...

www.nature.com

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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! ⌛

siof-ottica.it

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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 29

...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! 🗨️

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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 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 28

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

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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 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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Laboratory for Nanometallurgy - ETH Zürich @lnm-eth.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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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

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 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 26

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

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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 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 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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SIOF-Plasmonica @plasmonica.bsky.social · Mar 21

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.

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