Francesco Monticone

NEW WEBSITE IS ONLINE! Visit http://monticone.ece.cornell.edu/ for updated information and news.

Upcoming Conferences and Talks:

• June 26-July 1, 2016: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Foster’s Reactance Theorem Implications for Scattering and Cloaking”.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Boosting the Directivity of Optical Nanoantennas”. (invited talk)
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Scattering and Radiation Singularities in Epsilon-NearZero Structures”.
• April 4-6, 2016: SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Extraordinary Light Trapping in Plasmonic and Metamaterial Structures”. (invited talk)

Past Conferences:

• December 9, 2015: Nanophotonics Colloquium, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • F. Monticone, “Scattering Engineering at the Extreme with Metamaterials and Plasmonics”. (invited talk)

• October 23, 2015: Symposium Nanoscale Quantum Optics 2015, AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Trapping Light in Plain Sight”.

• September 7-10, 2015: 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2015, Oxford, UK.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Leaky Waves, Wood’s Anomalies and Extraordinary Optical Trapping”.
  • F. Monticone, C. Valagiannopoulos, S. Savoia, R. Fleury and A. Alù, “PT-Symmetric Metamaterial Systems for Aberration-Free Imaging and Wave Manipulation”.

• July 19-25, 2015: 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
  • F. Monticone, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, “Linear and Nonlinear Optical Nano-Antennas,” (invited talk).
  • F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “MIMO Optical Wireless at the Nanoscale” .
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Realization and Operation of Modular 3-D Optical Nanocircuits,” (invited talk).
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Embedded Scattering Eigenstates: Light Trapping in 2D and 3D Systems”.
  • F. Monticone, C. Valagiannopoulos, and A. Alù, “Aberration-Free Planar Focusing based on Parity-Time Symmetric Nonlocal Metamaterials”.

• June 28 – July 3, 2015: OSI 2015 – The International Conference on Optics of Surfaces and Interfaces, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Embedded Photonic Eigenstates: Towards Ideal Light Localization and Confinement in Open Nanostructures”.

• March 2-6, 2015: 2015 APS March Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
  • F. Monticone, C. Valagiannopoulos, S. Savoia, R. Fleury and A. Alù, “Parity-Time Symmetric Nonlocal Metamaterials for Focusing and Image Processing”.
• August 25-30, 2014, 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Scattering Engineering: from Broadband Cloaking and Resonance Effects to Embedded Scattering Eigenvalues in 3D Nanostructures”. Special Session: Photonic topological insulators and metamaterials I.
  • C. Della Giovampaola, B. Edwards, A. Silva, F. Monticone, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Recent Progress in Metamaterials That Perform Mathematical Operations”.

• July 6-12, 2014, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
  • F. Monticone, V. Galdi, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “‘Computing Metasurfaces’ to Perform Mathematical Operations”.
  • C. Della Giovampaola, B. Edwards, A. Silva, F. Monticone, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Waveguide-based Metamaterials as a Platform for Mathematical Operations”.

• October 6-10, 2013, Frontiers in Optics 2013, Orlando, FL, USA.
  • F. Monticone, X. Li, and A. Alù, “Boosting Optical Magnetism with Symmetry Breaking in a Subwavelength Plasmonic Metamolecule”.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Controlling the Nanoscale Optical Transmission with Single and Stacked Metasurfaces”.

• September 16-21, 2013, 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2013, Bordeaux, France.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “On the Physical Bounds of Cloaking and Invisibility”.
  • A. Silva, F. Monticone, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Mathematical Manipulation with Metamaterials”.

• July 7-12, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
  • F. Monticone, Xiaoqin Li, and A. Alù, “Strong Optical Magnetism and Fano Resonances in Asymmetric Plasmonic Metamolecules”.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Molding the Optical Transmission with a Meta-Transmitarray”.
  • F. Monticone, Romain Fleury, and Andrea Alù, “Physical Bounds and Limitations of Cloaking and Invisibility Using Passive Metamaterials”.
  • A. Silva, F. Monticone, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Metastructures for Signal Manipulation”.

• January 9-12, 2013, URSI-USNC National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, USA. F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Fundamental Passivity and Causality Bounds on Metamaterial Cloaking”.

• January 3-6, 2013, NanoMeta 2013, Seefeld, Tirol, Austria.
  • F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Manipulating the Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Meta-Transmitarray”.
  • A. Alù, F. Monticone, and Romain Fleury, “Fundamental Physical Bounds on Metamaterial Cloaking”.

bold typeface indicates the presenting author