Prof Andrea Di Falco

Director of Impact

Professor

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3108
Email: adf10@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

Prof Di Falco teaches the course of Nanophotonics at Master level. Locally he gives tutoring support, and organises and marks the experimental activity and the exams. He also supports the teaching program of the Photonics Laboratory.

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

Femy Francis
Farhan Ali
Innes Bakkali
Zaka Ullah
Yuhui Gan
Shiju Prasad
Sarah-Jane Twigg

Selected publications

Open access

Engineering waveguide nonlinear effective length via low index thin films
Jaffray, W., Ali, F., Stengel, S., Guo, Z., Schulz, S. A., Di Falco, A. & Ferrera, M., 27 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Flexible holographic metasurfaces for shape dependent imaging and curvature sensing
Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T., Hunter, R. I., Biabanifard, M., Robertson, D. A., Smith, G. M., Horsley, S., Schulz, S. A. & Di Falco, A., 10 Jun 2024, Metamaterials XIV. MacDonald, K. F., Staude, I. & Zayats, A. V. (eds.). SPIE, 1299005. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 12990).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Generative model for multiple-purpose inverse design and forward prediction of disordered waveguides in linear and nonlinear regimes
Guo, Z., Guo, Z., Arandelovic, O. & di Falco, A., 2024, Machine Learning in Photonics. Ferranti, F., Hedayati, M. K. & Fratalocchi, A. (eds.). SPIE, 1301702. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 13017).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open access

Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces
Schulz, S. A., Oulton, R. F., Kenney, M., Alù, A., Staude, I., Bashiri, A., Fedorova, Z., Kolkowski, R., Koenderink, A. F., Xiao, X., Yang, J., Peveler, W. J., Clark, A. W., Perrakis, G., Tasolamprou, A. C., Kafesaki, M., Zaleska, A., Dickson, W., Richards, D. & Zayats, A. & 47 others, Ren, H., Kivshar, Y., Maier, S., Chen, X., Ansari, M. A., Gan, Y., Alexeev, A., Krauss, T. F., Di Falco, A., Gennaro, S. D., Santiago-Cruz, T., Brener, I., Chekhova, M. V., Ma, R.-M., Vogler-Neuling, V. V., Weigand, H. C., Talts, Ü.-L., Occhiodori, I., Grange, R., Rahmani, M., Xu, L., Kamali, S. M., Arababi, E., Faraon, A., Harwood, A. C., Vezzoli, S., Sapienza, R., Lalanne, P., Dmitriev, A., Rockstuhl, C., Sprafke, A., Vynck, K., Upham, J., Alam, M. Z., De Leon, I., Boyd, R. W., Padilla, W. J., Malof, J. M., Jana, A., Yang, Z., Colom, R., Song, Q., Genevet, P., Achouri, K., Evlyukhin, A. B., Lemmer, U. & Fernandez-Corbaton, I., 24 Jun 2024, In: Applied Physics Letters. 124, 26, 114 p., 260701.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open access

See-through conformable holographic metasurface patches for augmented reality
Gan, Y., Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T. T., Persheyev, S., Biabanifard, M. & Di Falco, A., 26 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Laser & Photonics Reviews. Early View, 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access

Self-calibrated flexible holographic curvature sensor
Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T. T., Biabanifard Hossein Abadi, M. & Di Falco, A., 15 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Materials Technologies. Early View, 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access

The role of ion dissolution in metal and metal oxide surface inactivation of SARS CoV-2
Hilton, J. V., Nanao, Y., Flokstra, M. G., Askari, M., Smith, T. K., Di Falco, A., King, P., Wahl, P. & Adamson, C. S., Feb 2024, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90, 2, 15 p., e01553-23.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access

ZrO₂ holographic metasurfaces for efficient optical trapping in the visible range
Biabanifard, M., Plaskocinski, T. T., Xiao, J. & Di Falco, A., 11 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 7 p., 2400248.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access

Laser writing of parabolic micromirrors with a high numerical aperture for optical trapping and rotation
Plaskocinski, T., Arita, Y., Bruce, G. D., Persheyev, S., Dholakia, K., Di Falco, A. & Ohadi, H., 22 Aug 2023, In: Applied Physics Letters. 123, 8, 6 p., 081106.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The role of ion dissolution in metal and metal oxide surface inactivation of SARS-CoV-2
Hilton, J., Nanao, Y., Flokstra, M., Askari, M., Smith, T. K., Falco, A. D., King, P. D., Wahl, P. & Adamson, C. S., 11 Sept 2023, (biorxiv).
Research output: Working paper › Preprint

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