Docenti e ricercatori
Research Area: PHYS-03/A - Fisica Sperimentale della Materia e Applicazioni
L.go B. Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa (PI), Italy.
Research activities
My research focuses on nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical metamaterials, with particular emphasis on the design, fabrication, and characterization of nanostructured systems with tailored electromagnetic responses. A central theme of my work is the development of hybrid photonic–plasmonic architectures and metasurfaces, aimed at controlling light–matter interaction at the nanoscale and beyond the diffraction limit.
A specific line of investigation concerns the exploitation of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials and resonant nanostructures to achieve ultra-high spatial resolution in two-photon direct laser writing, enabling advanced 2D and 3D nanofabrication strategies. In parallel, I study resonant phenomena in metamaterials, including Fano-type and strong-coupling effects, with applications to high-sensitivity optical sensing, flat optics, and anti-counterfeiting technologies.
My research approach is strongly experiment-driven and interdisciplinary, combining nanofabrication, optical spectroscopy, and electromagnetic modeling, with the goal of identifying robust physical mechanisms for advanced control of light at the nanoscale and the realization of functional photonic devices.
Recent publications
- Open-hardware platform for synchronous performance testing of multiple passive radiative cooling materials.” Cell Reports Physical Science 6.7 (2025). https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/1342228
- Nanoplasmonic Isosbestics Uncover Mesoscale Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles on Soft Templates.” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/1342225
- Radiative cooling potential of a water-based paint formulation under realistic application conditions.” ACS Applied Optical Materials 2.12 (2024). https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/1342180
- Engineering Fano‐Resonant Hybrid Metastructures with Ultra‐High Sensing Performances.” Advanced Optical Materials 11.12 (2023). https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/1342227
- Leveraging on ENZ metamaterials to achieve 2D and 3D hyper‐resolution in two‐photon direct laser writing.” Advanced Materials 33.18 (2021). https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/1342207
Recent publications
- Optimizing boron nitride nano-fibers scatterers arrangement to enhance solar reflectance and selective thermal emissivity towards passive daytime radiative cooling [2026]
- Speckle analysis of reconfigurable disordered photonic materials made of polymer dispersed liquid crystals [2026]
- Design of GST phase only pixel metasurfaces for beam steering at optical telecom wavelength [2025]
- Nanoplasmonic Isosbestics Uncover Mesoscale Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles on Soft Templates [2025]
- Near-Visible Low-Power Tuning of Nematic-Liquid Crystal Integrated Silicon Nitride Ring Resonator [2025]