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Curvilinear MetaSurfaces for Surface Wave Manipulation.

Journal Article
La Spada, L., Spooner, C., Haq, S., & Hao, Y. (2019)
Curvilinear MetaSurfaces for Surface Wave Manipulation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36451-8
Artificial sheet materials, known as MetaSurfaces, have been applied to fully control both space and surface waves due to their exceptional abilities to dynamically tailor wav...

Metasurfaces for Advanced Sensing and Diagnostics

Journal Article
La Spada, L. (2019)
Metasurfaces for Advanced Sensing and Diagnostics. Sensors, 19(2), 355. doi:10.3390/s19020355
Interest in sensors and their applications is rapidly evolving, mainly driven by the huge demand of technologies whose ultimate purpose is to improve and enhance health and sa...

A Tool for Modeling, Design and Applications of MetaSurfaces

Conference Proceeding
La Spada, L., & Vegni, A. M. (2018)
A Tool for Modeling, Design and Applications of MetaSurfaces. In Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference, OSA Technical Digest, (Th3C.2). https://doi.org/10.1364/laop.2018.th3c.2
We present a new approach to model, design and realize MetaSurface structures for sensing and telecommunications. The method turns out to be versatile and has great potential ...

Electromagnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications

Journal Article
La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2018)
Electromagnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications. Materials, 11(4), 603. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040603
A modeling and design approach is proposed for nanoparticle-based electromagnetic devices. First, the structure properties were analytically studied using Maxwell’s equations....

Modeling and manufacturing for surface wave control.

Conference Proceeding
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2018)
Modeling and manufacturing for surface wave control. In 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)https://doi.org/10.1109/imws-amp.2017.8247375
Recently, a huge interest emerged in the field of surface waves, in particular the possibility to control and manipulate their propagation properties at will. The aim of this ...

Electromagnetic wave control by metasurfaces: From design to manufacturing

Conference Proceeding
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2017)
Electromagnetic wave control by metasurfaces: From design to manufacturing. In 2017 XXXIInd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS)https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8105087
Recently, there have been a new interest in controlling and manipulating electromagnetic waves in different frequency ranges. The development of new two-dimensional materials,...

Electromagnetic waves control for antennas applications

Conference Proceeding
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2017)
Electromagnetic waves control for antennas applications. In 2017 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)https://doi.org/10.1109/apwc.2017.8062256
Recently, great interest in controlling and manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation from microwave to optical frequencies, has been emerged. Artificial sheet materials w...

Near-zero-index wires.

Journal Article
La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2017)
Near-zero-index wires. Optics express, 25(20), 23699-23708. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.25.023699
In this work, near-zero-index material boundary properties have been exploited to achieve new electromagnetic functionalities. The extraordinary guiding properties of a cylind...

Modeling and design for electromagnetic surface wave devices

Journal Article
La Spada, L., Haq, S., & Hao, Y. (2017)
Modeling and design for electromagnetic surface wave devices. Radio Science, 52(9), 1049-1057. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017rs006379
A great deal of interest has reemerged recently in the study of surface waves. The possibility to control and manipulate electromagnetic wave propagations at will opens many n...

Tailoring of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces

Conference Proceeding
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2017)
Tailoring of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces. In 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928143
In the last few years, non-homogeneous metasurfaces captured huge interest in tailoring electromagnetic waves, ranging from microwave to optical frequencies. Several technolog...