Andrea Alù

1.7k total papers · 78.1k total citations
969 papers, 57.2k citations indexed

About

Andrea Alù is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Alù has authored 969 papers receiving a total of 57.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 607 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 435 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 408 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Andrea Alù's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (585 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (304 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (304 papers). Andrea Alù is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (585 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (304 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (304 papers). Andrea Alù collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Andrea Alù's co-authors include Nader Engheta, Dimitrios L. Sounas, Francesco Monticone, Romain Fleury, Pai‐Yen Chen, Yang Zhao, Mohammad‐Ali Miri, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri and Alex Krasnok and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Alù

905 papers receiving 54.8k citations

Hit Papers

Controlling sound with ac... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2016 2019 2005 2012 2014 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials
    2016 1.6k citations Steven A. Cummer, Johan Christensen et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  2. Exceptional points in optics and photonics
    2019 1.4k citations Mohammad‐Ali Miri, Andrea Alù Science profile →
  3. Achieving transparency with plasmonic and metamaterial coatings
    2005 1.2k citations Andrea Alù, Nader Engheta Physical Review E profile →
  4. Twisted optical metamaterials for planarized ultrathin broadband circular polarizers
    2012 877 citations Yang Zhao, Mikhail A. Belkin et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Sound Isolation and Giant Linear Nonreciprocity in a Compact Acoustic Circulator
    2014 827 citations Romain Fleury, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Science profile →
  6. Epsilon-near-zero metamaterials and electromagnetic sources: Tailoring the radiation phase pattern
    2007 811 citations Andrea Alù, Mário G. Silveirinha et al. Physical Review B profile →
  7. Performing Mathematical Operations with Metamaterials
    2014 780 citations Francesco Monticone, Giuseppe Castaldi et al. Science profile →
  8. Non-reciprocal photonics based on time modulation
    2017 669 citations Dimitrios L. Sounas, Andrea Alù Nature Photonics profile →
  9. Full Control of Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Composite Metascreen
    2013 666 citations Francesco Monticone, Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Manipulating light polarization with ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces
    2011 587 citations Yang Zhao, Andrea Alù Physical Review B profile →
  11. Experimental Verification of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Coupling and Energy Squeezing Using a Microwave Waveguide
    2008 575 citations Brian Edwards, Andrea Alù et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  12. Atomically Thin Surface Cloak Using Graphene Monolayers
    2011 575 citations Pai‐Yen Chen, Andrea Alù ACS Nano profile →
  13. An invisible acoustic sensor based on parity-time symmetry
    2015 562 citations Romain Fleury, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Nature Communications profile →
  14. Observation of higher-order topological acoustic states protected by generalized chiral symmetry
    2018 531 citations Xiang Ni, Matthew Weiner et al. Nature Materials profile →
  15. Giant nonlinear response from plasmonic metasurfaces coupled to intersubband transitions
    2014 508 citations Jongwon Lee, Mykhailo Tymchenko et al. Nature profile →
  16. A Reconfigurable Active Huygens' Metalens
    2017 503 citations Francesco Monticone, Lei Zhang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  17. Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductors, Nanocapacitors, and Nanoresistors
    2005 501 citations Nader Engheta, Alessandro Salandrino et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  18. Magnetic-free non-reciprocity and isolation based on parametrically modulated coupled-resonator loops
    2014 491 citations Nicholas A. Estep, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Nature Physics profile →
  19. Chirality detection of enantiomers using twisted optical metamaterials
    2017 486 citations Yang Zhao, Amir Nader Askarpour et al. Nature Communications profile →
  20. Topologically robust sound propagation in an angular-momentum-biased graphene-like resonator lattice
    2015 483 citations Alexander B. Khanikaev, Romain Fleury et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Floquet topological insulators for sound
    2016 477 citations Romain Fleury, Alexander B. Khanikaev et al. Nature Communications profile →
  22. Ultrathin Pancharatnam–Berry Metasurface with Maximal Cross‐Polarization Efficiency
    2014 470 citations Xumin Ding, Francesco Monticone et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  23. Machine-learning reprogrammable metasurface imager
    2019 463 citations Lianlin Li, Hengxin Ruan et al. Nature Communications profile →
  24. Nanophotonics: Shrinking light-based technology
    2015 446 citations A. Femius Koenderink, Andrea Alù et al. Science profile →
  25. Nonlinear metasurfaces: a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics
    2017 433 citations Alex Krasnok, Mykhailo Tymchenko et al. Materials Today profile →
  26. Electromagnetic Nonreciprocity
    2018 405 citations Christophe Caloz, Andrea Alù et al. Physical Review Applied profile →
  27. Experimental observation of a polarization vortex at an optical bound state in the continuum
    2018 403 citations Hugo M. Doeleman, Francesco Monticone et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  28. Metagratings: Beyond the Limits of Graded Metasurfaces for Wave Front Control
    2017 370 citations Younes Ra’di, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  29. Programmable time-domain digital-coding metasurface for non-linear harmonic manipulation and new wireless communication systems
    2018 357 citations Jie Zhao, Xi Yang et al. National Science Review profile →
  30. Giant non-reciprocity at the subwavelength scale using angular momentum-biased metamaterials
    2013 333 citations Dimitrios L. Sounas, Christophe Caloz et al. Nature Communications profile →
  31. Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum
    2022 332 citations Tan Shi, Zi‐Lan Deng et al. Nature Communications profile →
  32. Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters
    2019 329 citations Denis G. Baranov, Yuzhe Xiao et al. Nature Materials profile →
  33. Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials
    2020 327 citations Hussein Nassar, Behrooz Yousefzadeh et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  34. Higher-order topological states in photonic kagome crystals with long-range interactions
    2019 305 citations Mengyao Li, Dmitry V. Zhirihin et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  35. Nonlocal Metasurfaces for Optical Signal Processing
    2018 303 citations Hoyeong Kwon, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  36. Static non-reciprocity in mechanical metamaterials
    2017 291 citations Corentin Coulais, Dimitrios L. Sounas et al. Nature profile →
  37. Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum
    2021 282 citations Adam Overvig, Nanfang Yu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  38. Analogue computing with metamaterials
    2020 261 citations Dimitrios L. Sounas, Andrea Alù et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  39. Anti–parity-time symmetry in diffusive systems
    2019 246 citations Ying Li, Yu‐Gui Peng et al. Science profile →
  40. Generalized parity–time symmetry condition for enhanced sensor telemetry
    2018 223 citations Pai‐Yen Chen, Maryam Sakhdari et al. Nature Electronics profile →
  41. Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency
    2022 218 citations Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Omid Hemmatyar et al. Nature Communications profile →
  42. Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons
    2021 207 citations Qing Zhang, Guangwei Hu et al. Nature profile →
  43. Exceptional points and non-Hermitian photonics at the nanoscale
    2023 164 citations Aodong Li, Heng Wei et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  44. Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces
    2022 135 citations Stephanie C. Malek, Adam Overvig et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
  45. Ultrahigh-Q guided mode resonances in an All-dielectric metasurface
    2023 135 citations Lujun Huang, Adam Overvig et al. Nature Communications profile →
  46. Observation of temporal reflection and broadband frequency translation at photonic time interfaces
    2023 130 citations Gengyu Xu, Shixiong Yin et al. Nature Physics profile →
  47. Hyperbolic shear polaritons in low-symmetry crystals
    2022 129 citations Nikolai Christian Paßler, Xiang Ni et al. Nature profile →
  48. Broadband angular spectrum differentiation using dielectric metasurfaces
    2024 126 citations Ming Deng, Michele Cotrufo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  49. Subambient daytime radiative cooling of vertical surfaces
    2024 84 citations Fei Xie, Weiliang Jin et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Andrea Alù 33.4k 25.8k 22.9k 18.4k 14.6k 969 57.2k
Cheng‐Wei Qiu 26.3k 0.8× 18.7k 0.7× 17.5k 0.8× 14.6k 0.8× 10.9k 0.7× 707 46.1k
Federico Capasso 39.1k 1.2× 34.9k 1.4× 25.9k 1.1× 20.0k 1.1× 30.3k 2.1× 833 78.8k
J. B. Pendry 50.4k 1.5× 34.1k 1.3× 29.3k 1.3× 27.6k 1.5× 17.3k 1.2× 458 77.4k
David R. Smith 62.8k 1.9× 22.4k 0.9× 28.7k 1.3× 40.7k 2.2× 19.2k 1.3× 449 80.9k
Yuri S. Kivshar 32.4k 1.0× 51.0k 2.0× 30.7k 1.3× 12.4k 0.7× 21.2k 1.4× 1.2k 81.6k
Vladimir M. Shalaev 28.1k 0.8× 15.6k 0.6× 22.4k 1.0× 9.9k 0.5× 10.3k 0.7× 479 42.3k
Nader Engheta 20.6k 0.6× 13.6k 0.5× 14.5k 0.6× 11.5k 0.6× 10.1k 0.7× 526 33.4k
C. T. Chan 14.2k 0.4× 20.8k 0.8× 16.3k 0.7× 6.3k 0.3× 8.3k 0.6× 545 40.1k
John D. Joannopoulos 13.8k 0.4× 49.9k 1.9× 18.3k 0.8× 4.0k 0.2× 42.0k 2.9× 577 75.3k
Costas M. Soukoulis 23.9k 0.7× 14.1k 0.5× 13.3k 0.6× 13.8k 0.8× 9.4k 0.6× 371 34.6k

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