Andrea Alù

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Andrea Alù is 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, metamaterials 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. Before joining the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, he has developed significant parts of his PhD and postgraduate research at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. He has authored over 150 journal papers, 15 book chapters and 270 conference papers, with over 2,800 citations (h-index 24, from ISI). He has received several international awards in recognition of his research achievements, including the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, the DTRA Young Investigator Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, four URSI Young Scientist Awards, the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Young Researcher Award,  the L. B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamicsa and the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics.

Dr. Alù is an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and Optics Express, Editor of Metamaterials and Advanced Electromagnetics and guest editor of several special issues on metamaterials and plasmonics. His research specializes in metamaterials and plasmonics, with applications spanning microwaves, infrared, optical frequencies and acoustic waves, 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 graduate and undergraduate courses on electromagnetics and metamaterials. A selected list of recent publications may be found here.

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• May 16, 2012: Our paper N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer, “Taming the Thermal Emissivity of Metals: a Metamaterial Approach,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 20, 201109.
• May 15, 2012: Our paper N. Akozbek, N. Mattiucci, D. De Ceglia, R. Trimm, A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, M. A. Vincenti, M. Scalora, and M. J. Bloemer, “Experimental Demonstration of Plasmonic Brewster Angle Extraordinary Transmission through Extreme Subwavelength Slit Arrays in the Microwave,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 20, 205430 (4 pages).
• Apr. 24, 2012: A video featuring our cloaking research from TACC has been posted on Youtube.
• Apr. 13, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer, “Thermal Emission From a Metamaterial Wire Medium Slab,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 9784-9789.
• Mar. 30, 2012: Our paper A. Abass, K. Q. Le, A. Alù, M. Burgelman, and B. Maes, “Dual-Interface Gratings for Broadband Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 11, 115449 (8 pages).
• Mar. 28, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, K. Q. Le, R. Trimm, A. Alù, N. Mattiucci, A. D. Mathias, N. Akozbek, and M. J. Bloemer, “Broadband Metamaterial for Nonresonant Matching of Acoustic Waves,” has been published in Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, No. 340 (5 pages)!
• Mar. 23, 2012: Congratulations to J. C. Soric who won the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the 2012 Mini-Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS 2012), Waco, TX with the paper J. C. Soric, A. Alù, "Microwave Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials".
• Mar. 23, 2012: Our paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, New J. Phys. 13, 033026 (2011) has been selected for inclusion in the exclusive 'Highlights of 2011' collection of the New Journal of Physics.
• Mar. 13, 2012: Our paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, “Investigation of Leaky-Wave Propagation and Radiation in a Metal Cut-Wire Array,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 1630-1634.
• Mar. 8, 2012: Congratulations to Nasim M. Estakhri, who has received the first rank among all 2011 M.Sc. Engineering students at the University of Tehran.
• Feb. 21, 2012: Our paper Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuits at Infrared Wavelengths,” has been published in Nature Materials, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 208-212!
• Feb. 19, 2012: Our invited paper P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Suppressing the Electromagnetic Scattering with an Helical Mantle Cloak,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Special Cluster on Metamaterials, Vol. 10, pp. 1598-1601.
• Feb. 10, 2012: Our paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Nonlocal Transformation Optics,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, No. 6, 063902.
• Jan. 31, 2012: Andrea Alù has received the 2012 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award.
• Jan. 31, 2012: Our paper New Journal of Physics 14, 013054 (2012) on 3D cloaking has been downloaded 5093 times in the first 2 days.
• Jan. 31, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù, “Matching and Funneling Light at the Plasmonic Brewster Angle," has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 2, 024304 (9 pages).
• Jan. 27, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, G. D’Aguanno, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Boosting Optical Nonlinearities in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 4, 045129 (5 pages).
• Jan. 25, 2012: Our paper on 3D plasmonic cloaking has gathered worldwide attention in the general press, see BBC News, IoP News, Kurzweil, PhysOrg, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Wired, EnGadget, Science Illustrated. It is the most shared and most read news on BBC News.
• Jan. 25, 2012: Our paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, “Experimental Verification of Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space,” has been published in the New Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, 013054 (13 pages).
• Jan. 6, 2012: Congratulations to Pai-Yen Chen, who won the 3rd prize at the USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting  Student Paper Competition in Boulder, CO, with the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Ultra-Broadband Mantle Cloak Using Non-Foster Negative-Impedance Metasurfaces”.

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