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most citedNew horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

54 citations · 141 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2023★ 54 cited

New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

Michaël Lobet, Nathaniel Kinsey, Iñigo Liberal +7

The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero,…

physics.optics2023

Unveiling Chirality: Exploring Nature's Blueprint for Engineering Nanostructured Materials

Alexa Guglielmelli, Liliana Valente, Giovanna Palermo +1

Chirality, the property of asymmetry, is of great importance in biological and physical phenomena. This prospective offers an overview of the emerging field of chiral bioinspired p…

physics.optics2022★ 30 cited

All-Optical tunability of metalenses infiltrated with liquid crystals

Giovanna Palermo, Andrew Lininger, Alexa Guglielmelli +8

Metasurfaces have been extensively engineered to produce a wide range of optical phenomena, allowing unprecedented control over the propagation of light. However, they are generall…

physics.optics2021★ 23 cited

Tailoring of Plasmonic Functionalized Metastructures to Enhance Local Heating Release

Antonio Ferraro, Giuseppe Emanuele Lio, Abdelhamid Hmina +3

Plasmonic nanoheaters are reported that produce a significant local heating when excited by a 532 nm wavelength focussed laser beam. A significant temperature increase derives from…

physics.app-ph2021★ 1 cited

Glioblastoma Treatments with Photo-Nanotherapeutics Induce Massive Devascularization and Tumor Elimination

Loredana Ricciardi, Sharmistha Chatterjee, Giovanna Palermo +9

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the deadliest and most aggressive cancers, remarkably resilient to current therapeutic treatments. Here, we report in vivo studies of GBM tr…

physics.app-ph2020

Biomolecular sensing at the interface between chiral metasurfaces and hyperbolic metamaterials

Giovanna Palermo, Giuseppe E. Lio, Marco Esposito +6

In recent years significant efforts have been made to design and fabricate functional nanomaterials for biomedical applications based on the control of light matter interaction at…

physics.app-ph2020★ 5 cited

Numerical modeling of active thermo-plasmonics experiments

Giuseppe E. Lio, Giovanna Palermo, Antonio De Luca +1

In this paper, we present a simple and robust numerical method able to predict, with high accuracy, the photo-thermal effects occurring for a gold nanoparticles arrangement under e…

physics.app-ph2019★ 28 cited

A numerical ellipsometric analysis (NEA) of nanoscale layered systems

Giuseppe Emanuele Lio, Giovanna Palermo, Roberto Caputo +1

A simple and robust method able to predict, with high accuracy, the optical properties of single and multi-layer nanostructures is presented. The method exploits a COMSOL Multiphys…