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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award “For contributions to novel electromagnetic materials and their application.”
  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2015 - National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Engineering
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials
  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and applications of electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena
  • 2014 - OSA Fellows OSA is pleased to announce the 2014 class of Fellows. This distinction was awarded to 71 OSA members for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics. The selection of these candidates was confirmed by the Board of Directors at its meeting in October 2013. The Society appreciates the efforts of the nominators and of the members of the 2013 Fellow Members Committee who reviewed the 149 nominations eligible for consideration. This year’s committee included Ann Catrina Coleman (chair), Timothy J. Carrig, Kishan Dholakia, Qihuang Gong, Hiromasa Ito, Mary A. Johnson, Walter Margulis, Lenore McMackin, Nirmala Ramanujam, Kevin P. Thompson, Narsingh Bahadur Singh and Xiaocong Larry Yuan. Our congratulations to these new Fellows, many of whom will be honored at OSA conferences throughout the year. Andrea Alù University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. For outstanding contributions to the fields of photonic metamaterials, plasmonic phenomena and devices, cloaking, and scattering suppression.

Overview

Andrea Alù is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, principally within Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science.

The scientist's work focuses on specialized subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

Main topics of their research include:

  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics

Andrea Alù has contributed extensively to academic literature, publishing numerous papers. Some recent works include:

  • "Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Analogue computing with metamaterials," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency," 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include Michele Cotrufo, Alex Krasnok, Xiang Ni, Alexander B. Khanikaev, and Emanuele Galiffi.

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Communications, ACS Photonics, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, and Physical Review Letters.

In addition to journal articles, Andrea Alù has published a book titled Metamaterials-by-Design: Theory, Technologies, and Vision in 2024 under the SPIE publisher.

Andrea Alù has received numerous recognitions, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2020 for contributions to novel electromagnetic materials and their applications. Other honors include Fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Inventors, SPIE, American Physical Society, IEEE, and the Optical Society of America. The National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award was granted to them in 2015 for work in engineering.

Best Publications

  • Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials

    Steven A. Cummer;Johan Christensen;Andrea Alù

  • Exceptional points in optics and photonics.

    Mohammad-Ali Miri;Mohammad-Ali Miri;Andrea Alù

  • Achieving transparency with plasmonic and metamaterial coatings

    Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù;Nader Engheta

  • Epsilon-near-zero metamaterials and electromagnetic sources: Tailoring the radiation phase pattern

    Andrea Alù;Mário G. Silveirinha;Mário G. Silveirinha;Alessandro Salandrino;Nader Engheta

  • Sound isolation and giant linear nonreciprocity in a compact acoustic circulator.

    Romain Fleury;Dimitrios L. Sounas;Caleb F. Sieck;Michael R. Haberman

  • Performing mathematical operations with metamaterials.

    Alexandre Silva;Francesco Monticone;Giuseppe Castaldi;Vincenzo Galdi

  • Twisted optical metamaterials for planarized ultrathin broadband circular polarizers

    Y Zhao;M A Belkin;A Alù

  • Non-reciprocal photonics based on time modulation

    Dimitrios L. Sounas;Andrea Alù

  • Full control of nanoscale optical transmission with a composite metascreen.

    Francesco Monticone;Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri;Andrea Alù

  • Experimental verification of epsilon-near-zero metamaterial coupling and energy squeezing using a microwave waveguide.

    Brian Edwards;Andrea Alù;Michael E. Young;Mário Silveirinha;Mário Silveirinha

  • Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductors, Nanocapacitors, and Nanoresistors

    Nader Engheta;Alessandro Salandrino;Alessandro Salandrino;Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù

  • Manipulating light polarization with ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces

    Yang Zhao;Andrea Alù

  • An invisible acoustic sensor based on parity-time symmetry

    Romain Fleury;Dimitrios Sounas;Andrea Alù

  • Observation of higher-order topological acoustic states protected by generalized chiral symmetry.

    Xiang Ni;Matthew Weiner;Andrea Alù;Alexander B Khanikaev

  • Giant nonlinear response from plasmonic metasurfaces coupled to intersubband transitions

    Jongwon Lee;Mykhailo Tymchenko;Christos Argyropoulos;Pai Yen Chen

  • Pairing an epsilon-negative slab with a mu-negative slab: resonance, tunneling and transparency

    A. Alu;N. Engheta

  • Magnetic-free non-reciprocity and isolation based on parametrically modulated coupled-resonator loops

    Nicholas A. Estep;Dimitrios L. Sounas;Jason Soric;Andrea Alù

  • Atomically thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers.

    Pai Yen Chen;Andrea Alù

  • Observation of topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted van der Waals bi-layers

    Guangwei Hu;Qingdong Ou;Guangyuan Si;Yingjie Wu

  • Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

    Sajjad Abdollahramezani;Omid Hemmatyar;Hossein Taghinejad;Alex Krasnok

  • Nanophotonics: shrinking light-based technology.

    A. Femius Koenderink;Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù;Albert Polman

  • Floquet topological insulators for sound

    Romain Fleury;Alexander B Khanikaev;Andrea Alù

Frequent Co-Authors

Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta University of Pennsylvania
Dimitrios L. Sounas
Dimitrios L. Sounas Wayne State University
Filiberto Bilotti
Filiberto Bilotti Roma Tre University
Francesco Monticone
Francesco Monticone Cornell University
Alex Krasnok
Alex Krasnok Florida International University
Pai-Yen Chen
Pai-Yen Chen University of Illinois at Chicago
Alessandro Toscano
Alessandro Toscano Roma Tre University
Lucio Vegni
Lucio Vegni Roma Tre University
Christos Argyropoulos
Christos Argyropoulos Pennsylvania State University
Alessio Monti
Alessio Monti Roma Tre University

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