Attilio Zilli
@attilio-zilli.bsky.social
Researcher in optics at Politecnico di Milano. Behind the scenes in @plasmonica.bsky.social. Mens Xanax in corpore Maloox.
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Attilio Zilli
@attilio-zilli.bsky.social
· Dec 17
As I am new to this place, I thought I might introduce my research interests with a word cloud made with Scholar Goggler 🥽 @scholargoggler.bsky.social. If you are working on this stuff too, please like ♥️ this post so I can follow you back!
Christmas lights in the lab🎄with supercontinuum generation 🔆 - Best wishes to all for the festive season!
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Christmas lights in the lab🎄with supercontinuum generation 🔆 - Best wishes to all for the festive season!
Behind the curtains, lot of hard work is being put in by the organizing team spearheaded by Francesco Pineider and Alessio Gabbani. This promises to be another top notch #PLASMONICA Workshop and for sure I will not miss it!
All I want for Xmas is... 🎁 a Workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics💡! For its 12th edition, #PLASMONICA2026 will finally reach #Pisa. It will be hosted by the Univ. of Pisa #UniPi and supported by #CNR-NANO, @sns.it, SIOF, and EOS @europeanoptics.bsky.social. #SaveTheDate 📅 8-10 July, 2026. 🧵/1
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Behind the curtains, lot of hard work is being put in by the organizing team spearheaded by Francesco Pineider and Alessio Gabbani. This promises to be another top notch #PLASMONICA Workshop and for sure I will not miss it!
Procrastinators, rejoice! The deadline to apply for #PLASMONICAschool2026 has been extended until November 16th ⏰. Bring a mate and don't be late!
Have you been living under a rock and never heard about #PLASMONICAschool2026? No worries: it's not too late to join our School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics 💡: there is still one week left to apply ⌛. Check all the info in the 🧵 below 👇 and at 🌐 www.plasmonica.it/2026school/.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Procrastinators, rejoice! The deadline to apply for #PLASMONICAschool2026 has been extended until November 16th ⏰. Bring a mate and don't be late!
Nonlinear plasmonic sensing, but monitoring changes in the wavevector ↙️↘️ rather than wavelength domain. Kudos 🙌 to the perseverance of A. Verneuil, joint Ph.D. of @uttroyes.bsky.social (A.-L. Baudrion) and #PoliMi (
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Nonlinear plasmonic sensing, but monitoring changes in the wavevector ↙️↘️ rather than wavelength domain. Kudos 🙌 to the perseverance of A. Verneuil, joint Ph.D. of @uttroyes.bsky.social (A.-L. Baudrion) and #PoliMi (
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....
Pardon me for shamelessly advertising our recent work on nonlinear interferometry (by Yigong Luan supervised by Marco Finazzi, @vynisle.bsky.social, and myself at #PoliMi) also now featured on the homepage of 💡 Light: Science and Application. Article free to read at:
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale - Light: Science & Applications
We demonstrate polarization encoding of upconverted light with orthogonal polarization states into opposite diffraction orders of a metasurface, enabling all-optical tuning between linear and circular...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Pardon me for shamelessly advertising our recent work on nonlinear interferometry (by Yigong Luan supervised by Marco Finazzi, @vynisle.bsky.social, and myself at #PoliMi) also now featured on the homepage of 💡 Light: Science and Application. Article free to read at:
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me.
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Plasmonica School 2026
www.plasmonica.it
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me.
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
I cannot enroll as a student any more, but you'll find me here 😉
📢Applications are open for #PLASMONICAschool2026 — the 5th edition of our International School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics! 👩🏫
📅 23–27 March 2026
📍 Arcetri, Florence (Italy)
⏳ Deadline for applications: Nov 7th
📝 Info and submission: www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
📩 Contact: school@plasmonica.it
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📅 23–27 March 2026
📍 Arcetri, Florence (Italy)
⏳ Deadline for applications: Nov 7th
📝 Info and submission: www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
📩 Contact: school@plasmonica.it
🧵/1
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I cannot enroll as a student any more, but you'll find me here 😉
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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...
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
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
July 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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! ⌛
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#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...🧵
We think it has been an effective way to draw in actors outside academia and reach new audiences...🧵
June 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#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...🧵
We think it has been an effective way to draw in actors outside academia and reach new audiences...🧵
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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).
June 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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).
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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".
Best poster 🏅 to Shukun Weng from #IIT Genova for his poster "Electrically tunable ion transportation of MoS2/SiN nanochannel".
June 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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".
Best poster 🏅 to Shukun Weng from #IIT Genova for his poster "Electrically tunable ion transportation of MoS2/SiN nanochannel".
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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!
June 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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#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...)
June 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#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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... and the group picture 📷 of #PLASMONICA2025 is out! We are such a good-looking Community ☺️
June 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
... and the group picture 📷 of #PLASMONICA2025 is out! We are such a good-looking Community ☺️
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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...).
June 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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#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 🫠.
June 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#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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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....
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
. If you missed the talk, you can catch up by reading this comment article: doi.org/10.1038/s415....
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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....
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
. If you missed the talk, you can catch up by reading this comment article: doi.org/10.1038/s415....
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!
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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 🕳️
June 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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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.
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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🎺🎺 #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".
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🎺🎺 #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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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 😏!
June 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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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.
June 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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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...
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:👇
April 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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...