LATEST NEWS

• August 19th, 2022 - One further step towards demonstrating our paradigm for surface-enhanced chiroptical sensing! "One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal for Surface Mode Polarization Control" published today on Advanced Optical Materials.
  

• May 10th, 2021 - Controlling dielectric nanoantennas with temperature! "Optical tuning of dielectric nanoantennas for thermo-optically reconfigurable nonlinear metasurfaces" online on Optics Letters.

• May 3rd, 2021 - Finally online! "Tunable broadband light emission from graphene" discusses the control of hot carrier photoluminescence with planar cavities

• December 31st, 2020 - Published online on the last day of 2020! "Spectral characterization of mid-infrared Bloch surface waves excited on a truncated 1D photonic crystal" in collaboration with Sapienza University and IFN-CNR.

• September 1st, 2020 - Welcome to Dr Thorsten Feichtner, who is joining us for 18 months with a MSCA fellowship financed by the H2020 program of the EU Commission! Thorsten's project will be at the intersection between nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, and nanocircuitry... stay tuned!!!

• August 19th, 2020 - just published on ACS Photonics: "Plasmonic superchiral lattice resonances in the mid-infrared", the first results of the PRIN project "Plasmon-enhanced vibrational circular dichroism"!
  

• August 10th, 2020- "Broadband control of the optical properties of semiconductors through site-controlled self-assembly of microcrystals": in a collaboration between the University Milano Bicocca and Politecnico di Milano we investigate the optical properties of periodic silicon microcrystals for monolithic optoelectronic devices.
  

• July 13th 20 - still another paper from the GEMINI consortium!!! "Characterization of integrated waveguides by atomic-force-microscopy-assisted mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy", where we employ photothermal induced resonance microscopy for the on-chip characterization of waveguides

• May 5th, 2020 - "Spin orbitronics at a topological insulator-semiconductor interface" just published on Phys. Rev. B, happy to contribute with nano-optical simulations!

• August 28th, 2019- "Evidence of Cascaded Third-Harmonic Generation in Noncentrosymmetric Gold Nanoantennas" now online on Nano Letters!
  

• May 31st, 2019 - review paper "Semiconductor infrared plasmonics" now online! A lot of work and of inspiring discussions shared with Thierry Taliercio at the University of Montpellier... hope you will enjoy it!

• May 6th, 2019- a wonderful collaboration: "Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields" now published online on Nature Materials! See also the dissemination video online!
  

• April 5th, 2019 - "Tip-Enhanced Infrared Difference-Nanospectroscopy of the Proton Pump Activity of Bacteriorhodopsin in Single Purple Membrane Patches" now online, we were happy to contribute with combined optical and thermal simulations!
  

• December 12th, 2018 - the GEMINI consortium goes nonlinear! "Plasmonic mid-infrared third harmonic generation in germanium nanoantennas" just published online on Light: Science & Applications

• July 25th, 2018 - "Benchmarking the use of heavily doped Ge for plasmonics and sensing in the mid-infrared" just published online on ACS Photonics: How good is Ge compared to Au for mid-IR plasmonics?

• June 13th, 2018 - Superchiral surface waves on the cover of Chirality!
  

• June 1st, 2018 - Chiral plasmons meet electrons on arXiv: "Generation and control of an ultrafast electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near-fields"

• April 30th, 2018- Our sensitivity test on Plasmon-Enhanced Second Harmonic Sensing is finally out in J. Phys. Chem. C!

• March 27th, 2018 - "Superchiral surface waves for all-optical enantiomer separation" just posted on arXiv: from chiroptical spectroscopy to chiral forces!!!

• March 9th, 2018 - "Evidence for cascaded third harmonic generation in non-centrosymmetric gold nanoantennas", i.e., SHG matters for THG as well!

• January 30th, 2018 - "Limits of Kirchhoff’s Laws in Plasmonics": how careful should we be when using impedance descriptions for plasmonic nanocircuits?

Curriculum vitae

I studied at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), where I first got my Degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 and then the Ph.D. in Physics under the supervision of Prof. Lamberto Duò, working on linear and non-linear near-field microscopy and on the near-field properties of metal nanoparticles. I received the Ph.D. in 2007 with the dissertation "Field enhancement and confinement at optical wavelengths: nonlinear near-field microscopy and resonant metal nanoparticles". During the Ph.D., I also worked in Basel (Switzerland) by the group of Prof. Dieter Pohl and Prof. Bert Hecht, working on resonant optical antennas.

After a one-year Post Doc in Milano, in 2008 I was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, which I spent working in the group of Prof. Bert Hecht in Würzburg (Germany) focusing on near-field polarization engineering with optical cross antennas and on the impedance description of plasmonic antenna circuits.

I have been Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) since 2010 and Associate Professor since 2014 at the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

My research interests are in nano-optics and plasmonics. At present my main activities are focused on:

• Polarization control and chirality at the nanoscale

• Linear and nonlinear properties of Au nanoantennas

• Mid-infrared plasmonics and sensing with heavily-doped Ge materials

I was the coordinator of the FET-Open EU project GEMINI ("GErmanium Mid-Infrared plasmoNIcs for sensing") and I am currently the coordinator of the PRIN project "Plasmon enhanced vibrational circular dichroism".

Selected publications

(see the links at the bottom of the page for the full publication list)

• T. Taliercio and P. Biagioni
  “Semiconductor infrared plasmonics”
  Nanophotonics 8, 949 (2019)

• G. Pellegrini, M. Finazzi, M. Celebrano, L. Duò, M. A. Iatì, O. M. Maragò, and P. Biagioni
  “Superchiral surface waves for all-optical enantiomer separation”
  J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 28336 (2019)

• G. Pellegrini, M. Finazzi, M. Celebrano, L. Duò, and P. Biagioni
  “Chiral surface waves for enhanced circular dichroism” - Phys. Rev. B 95, 241402(R) (2017).

• M. P. Fischer, Ch. Schmidt, E. Sakat, J. Stock, A. Samarelli, J. Frigerio, M. Ortolani, D. J. Paul, G. Isella, A. Leitenstorfer, P. Biagioni, and D. Brida
  “Optical activation of germanium plasmonic nanoantennas in the mid infrared” - Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047401 (2016).

• E. Sakat, I. Bargigia, M. Celebrano, A. Cattoni, S. Collin, D. Brida, M. finazzi, C. D’Andrea, and P. Biagioni
  "Time-resolved photoluminescence in gold nanoantennas" - ACS Photonics 3, 1489 (2016).

• L. Baldassarre, E. Sakat, J. Frigerio, A. Samarelli, K. Gallacher, E. Calandrini, G. Isella, D. K. Paul, M. Ortolani, and P. Biagioni
  "Midinfrared plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy with germanium antennas on silicon substrates" - Nano Lett. 15, 7225 (2015).

• M. Celebrano, X. Wu, M. Baselli, S. Großmann, P. Biagioni, A. Locatelli, C. De Angelis, G. Cerullo, R. Osellame, B. Hecht, L. Duò, F. Ciccacci, and M. Finazzi
  "Mode matching in multiresonant plasmonic nanoantennas for enhanced second harmonic generation" - Nature Nanotechnology 10, 412 (2015).

• F. Bottegoni, M. Celebrano, M. Bollani, P. Biagioni, G. Isella, F. Ciccacci, and M. Finazzi
  "Spin voltage generation through optical excitation of complementary spin populations" - Nature Mater. 13, 790 (2014).

• P. Biagioni, D. Brida, J.-S. Huang, J. Kern, L. Duò, B. Hecht, M. Finazzi, and G. Cerullo
  "Dynamics of four-photon photoluminescence in gold nanoantennas" - Nano Lett. 12, 2941 (2012).

• P. Biagioni, J.-S. Huang, and B. Hecht
  "Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation" - Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 024402 (2012).

• P. Biagioni, M. Savoini, J.-S. Huang, L. Duò, M. Finazzi, and B. Hecht
  “Near-field polarization shaping by a near-resonant plasmonic cross antenna” - Phys. Rev. B 80, 153409 (2009)

• P. Biagioni, M. Celebrano, M. Savoini, G. Grancini, D. Brida, S. Mátéfi-Tempfli, M. Mátéfi-Tempfli, L. Duò, B. Hecht, G. Cerullo, and M. Finazzi
  “Dependence of the two-photon photoluminescence yield of gold nanostructures on the laser pulse duration” - Phys. Rev. B 80, 045411 (2009).

• P. Biagioni, J. S. Huang, L. Duò, M. Finazzi, and B. Hecht
  “Cross resonant optical antenna” - Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256801 (2009).