Prof Andrea Di Falco
Professor
Teaching
Prof Di Falco teaches the courses of Plasmonics and Metamaterials and Advanced Condensed Matter at Master level. He is currently the module coordinator for Physics 1. Locally he gives tutoring support, organises and marks the experimental activity and the exams. He is also a demonstrator for the Photonics Lab and responsible for the organisation of the lab tour activity within the Transferrable skills module.
Research areas
Andrea Di Falco is professor in nano-photonics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of St Andrews. In 2010 he was awarded a fellowship from EPSRC, to develop the concept of flexible metamaterials and plasmonics at visible wavelengths. In 2019 he was awarded a ERC Consolidator grant to develop biophotonic applications of optically trapped photonic membranes. His interests cover different areas of photonics, from metamaterials to photonic crystals and applications of nonlinear optics and biophotonics.
Group website: http://synthopt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
PhD supervision
- Usenobong Akpan
- Jianling Xiao
- Mohammad Biabanifard Hossein Abadi
- Ziheng Guo
- Tomasz Plaskocinski
- Femy Francis
- Farhan Ali
- Yuhui Gan
Selected publications
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Open access
On-chip optical trapping with high NA metasurfaces
Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T. T., Biabanifard, M., Persheyev, S. & Di Falco, A., 15 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ACS Photonics. Articles ASAP, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Shape dependent conformable holographic metasurfaces
Xiao, J., Hunter, R. I., Robertson, D. A., Smith, G. M., Horsley, S., Schulz, S. A. & Di Falco, A., 29 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Materials Technologies. Early View, 8 p., 2202006.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anti-reflection coatings for epsilon-near-zero materials
Wynne, L., Zhang, C., Akpan, U. B., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., 1 Oct 2022, In: Optical Materials Express. 12, 10, p. 4088-4095 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Red-shifted excitation and two-photon pumping of biointegrated GaInP/AlGaInP quantum well microlasers
Titze, V. M., Caixeiro, S., Di Falco, A., Schubert, M. & Gather, M. C., 16 Mar 2022, In: ACS Photonics. 9, 3, p. 952-960 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Red-shifted excitation and two-photon pumping of biointegrated GaInP/AlGaInP quantum well microlasers
Titze, V. M., Caixeiro, S., Di Falco, A., Schubert, M. & Gather, M. C., 16 Feb 2022, 20 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Open access
Two-tier manipulation of holographic information
Yan, L., Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T. T., Biabanifard, M., Persheyev, S., Askari, M. & Di Falco, A., 23 May 2022, In: Optics Express. 30, 11, p. 19145-19151Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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All-optical manipulation of photonic membranes
Askari, M., Kirkpatrick, B. C., Čižmár, T. & Di Falco, A., 10 May 2021, In: Optics Express. 29, 10, p. 14174-15866Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effective permittivity of co-evaporated metal-organic mixed films
Mischok, A., Hale, N., Gather, M. C. & Di Falco, A., 28 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 129, 8, 7 p., 083101 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Hilbert Transform method for measuring linear and nonlinear phase shifts imparted by metasurfaces
Wynne, L., Ballantyne, H., Li, X., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., 1 Oct 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Photonics and Nanostructures : Fundamentals and Applications. In press, 100844.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low power nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero metasurfaces
Wynne, L. C., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., May 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review