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Andrea Alù is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, USA. He is also affiliated with the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is involved in research projects on electromagnetics and acoustics.

Dr. Alù is currently seeking brilliant and highly motivated graduate students and postdocs to join his group at UT Austin. If you believe to be an exceptional candidate with interests in electromagnetism, plasmonics, and/or acoustics please feel free to contact me.

Dr. Andrea Alù received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy in 2007. He joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Since 2002 he has been actively working in the fields of metamaterials and plasmonics at the University of Roma Tre and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He has received several international awards in recognition of his research achievements, including the L. B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics, the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics and three URSI Young Scientist Awards.

Dr. Alù’s research specializes in electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonics, with applications spanning microwaves, infrared and optical frequencies, including nanooptics and nanophotonics, cloaking and transparency, nanocircuits and nanostructures modeling, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas. His research has significantly contributed to the fields of plasmonic cloaking, optical nanoantennas and nanocircuits and to the theory and modeling of metamaterials. He is currently teaching a graduate course on advanced electromagnetics and metamaterials. He has published more than 90 journal papers and 11 book chapters. A selected list of recent publications may be found here.

News

November 1, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “On Certain Design Criteria for Nanoantennas in the Visible,” has been published in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Special Issue on Functional Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics, Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 2009-2015, (invited paper).
October 12, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an all-optical metamaterial circuit board at the nanoscale,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 15.
October 6, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 15, 153901, October 6, 2009.
September 30, 2009: Andrea Alù has become an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
September 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 14, 143902.
September 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 113101 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 21.
September 16, 2009: M. D. Guild has won the best student paper award at Auxetics 2009 with our paper M. D. Guild, M. R. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Acoustic Wave Scattering Cancellation Using Auxetic Materials and Layers with Negative Stiffness Inclusions,” Bolton, U.K.
September 14, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
September 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 80, No. 11, 113101 (4 pages).
August 30, 2009: Mina Jean Hanna has joined our group as a new undergraduate research assistant.
August 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
July 31, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 5.
July 28, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-chain optical nanotransmission line for low-loss ultra-confined light beam,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
July 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 4, 043902.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 19, No. 12.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Coaxial-to-waveguide matching with ε-near-zero ultranarrow channels and bends,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
July 5, 2009: Xing-Xiang Liu has joined our group as a new graduate student.
June 29, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, "Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel," has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 24, 245135 (5 pages).
June 26, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 235412 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 26.
June 19, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
June 15, 2009: Pai-Yen Chen has joined our group as a new graduate student.
June 12, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, "Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel," has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 10, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 23, 235412 (12 pages).
June 8, 2009: a Viewpoint article by Prof. F. Javier Garcia de Abajo highlighting our recent paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009) has been published in Physics, Vol. 2, No. 47!
June 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, No. 23, 233901.
April 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
April 15, 2009: the news brief “Cloaked eye still sees,” highlighting our recent PRL paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has appeared in Science News!
April 9, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
March 25, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 5723-5730, March 25, 2009.
March 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
March 4, 2009: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10, 093002 (17 pages), 2008 has been selected in the Journal of Optics Highlights for 2008.
February 18, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless sharp bends and corners in waveguides using epsilon-near-zero effects,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, No. 4, 044905 (4 pages).
February 17, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 3101-3114.
February 14, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
January 20, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical nanoswitch: an engineered plasmonic nanoparticle with extreme parameters and giant anisotropy,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, 013026 (14 pages).

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