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...

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! ⌛

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).

#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...🧵

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!

#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...)

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

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".

#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 🫠.

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....

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

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.

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!

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

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...).

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.

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 😏!

🎺🎺 #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".

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.

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...

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

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...

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:👇

A new year 🎆 means a new Edition of our Workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics 💡! The 2025 edition will be hosted by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia #UniMoRe and #CNR-NANO; it will take place on June 25-27 in Complesso San Geminiano, in the historical heart of #Modena. Topics include:👇

Have you complained about how broken the academic publishing industry presently is? Here is an opportunity to walk the talk and support factually a scientific society-based publication model – that is, made by scientists and for scientists. Ultimately, our choices as authors are driving this system.

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Plants play a LOT of clever tricks with light (beyond that little miracle that is photosynthesis). If the topic interest you, there is a #PhD position open to work on it with Dr. Rox Middleton (a very bright young researcher at @uniofbath.bsky.social) #PhDjobs botphot.com/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to the newly elected 🗳️ members of the Presidential Board of the Italian optical society (SIOF): Ilaria Rea, Roberto Rella, Maria Grazia Manera, Michele Celebrano @vynisle.bsky.social, Francesca Rossi, Andrea Cusano, Silvia Soria, Pietro Gucciardi, Tommaso Ongarello, Isabella Carrer.

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This Editorial 📜 completes the #PLASMONICA2023 Special Issue and charts the path ahead 🛣️ for the partnership between PLASMONICA and JEOS:RP for #europeanoptics. Check out the initiative we announce at doi.org/10.1051/jeos... and follow us ☑️ here for updates soon!

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