Dr. Andrea Di Falco

- Position:
-
Reader
- Research Theme:
- Condensed Matter and Photonics
- Research Group:
- Photonics
- Institution:
- St. Andrews
- Email address:
- adf10@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)1334 463165
- Address:
- School of Physics & Astronomy, Physical Science Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
Research interests
Dr Di Falco is a a reader 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. His interests cover different areas of photonics, from metamaterials to photonic crystals and applications of nonlinear optics and biophotonics.
Teaching
Dr Di Falco is currently the module coordinator for Physics 1. He teaches the course of Plasmonics and Metamaterials at Master level. Locally he gives tutoring support, organises and mark 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 outputs
- Holography using curved metasurfaces DOI, Photonics, 6, 1 (2019)
- Non-obstructive intracellular nanolasers DOI, Nature Communications, 9 (2018)
- Enhanced asymmetric transmission in hyperbolic epsilon-near-zero slabs DOI, Journal of Optics, 20, 8 (2018)
- Photonic trimming of quantum emitters via direct fabrication of metallic nanofeatures DOI, APL Photonics, 3, 7 (2018)
- Surface topology specific metasurface holograms DOI, ACS Photonics, 5, 5 , p. 1762-1766 (2018)
- Persistence and lifelong fidelity of phase singularities in optical random waves DOI, Physical Review Letters, 119, 20 (2017)
- The dating game at dimension zero DOI, creation and annihilation of phase singularities in optical random waves : OSA Technical Digest, Part F66-FiO 2017 (2017)
- Flexible nanowire cluster as wearable colorimetric humidity sensor DOI, Small, 13, 27 (2017)
- Conformable holographic metasurfaces DOI, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017)
- All-optical manipulation of photonic membranes DOI, : Proceedings of SPIE (2016)