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Dr. Davide Piccinotti

Former Project
Active Photonic Metamaterials

Short CV
Davide received his 3-year Degree in Materials Science from University of Padua, Italy, in 2012. After that, he attained the Master Degree in Materials Science at the same institution in 2014 completing a 6 months Erasmus period at IM2NP laboratory in Marseille (France). In that period he conducted research in As-doped Ge after laser thermal annealing by using Atom Probe Tomography technique. He began his PhD studies at the Optoelectronics Research Centre in November 2014.

Joint Articles

  1. Engineering the collapse of lifetime distribution of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds
    H. Li, J. Y. Ou, B. Gholipour, J. K. So, D. Piccinotti, V. A. Fedotov and N. Papasimakis
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 261103 (2021) doi: 10.1063/5.0054780
  2. Artificial Intelligence for Photonics and Photonic Materials
    D. Piccinotti, K. F. MacDonald, S. A. Gregory, I. J. Youngs and N. I. Zheludev
    Rep. Prog. Phys. 84, 012401 (2020) doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/abb4c7
  3. Ultraviolet hollow-core waveguides with sub-unitary index chalcogenide cladding
    J. Li, B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    Opt. Mater. Express 10 (9), 2254-2261 (2020) doi: 10.1364/OME.400058 - pdf
  4. Fiber-integrated phase-change reconfigurable optical attenuator
    T. Martins, B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, K. F. MacDonald, A. C. Peacock, O. Frazão, and N. I. Zheludev
    APL Photonics 4,111301 (2019) doi: 10.1063/1.5116000 - pdf

  5. Reconfigurable ultraviolet and high-energy-visible dielectric metamaterials
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nano Letters 19, 1643 (2019) doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04576
  6. Stoichiometric engineering of chalcogenide semiconductor alloys for nanophotonic applications
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Adv. Mater. 31, 1807083, (2019) doi: 10.1002/adma.201807083 - free access
  7. Optical response of nano-hole arrays filled with chalcogenide low-epsilon media
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Adv. Opt. Mater. 6, 1800395 (2018) doi: 10.1002/adom.201800395 - free access
  8. Compositionally controlled plasmonics in amorphous semiconductor metasurfaces
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Opt. Express 26(16), 20861-20867 (2018)doi: 10.1364/OE.26.020861 - pdf

Joint Conference Contributions

  1. (invited)Nanomechanical Functionalities in Photonic Metamaterials
    K. F. MacDonald, D. Papas, J. Li, Q. Zhang, D. Piccinotti, J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2020 (Virtual Conference), 28 Sept – 01 Oct 2020
  2. Reconfigurable optical fibre integrated phase change metadevices
    Y. Cui, M. Maier, T. Martins, D. Piccinotti, K. F. MacDonald, N. I. Zheludev and B. Gholipour
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2020, Digital Forum, 23 - 27 Aug 2020
  3. Exotic effects in nanomechanical metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, D. Papas, J. Li, T. Liu, Q. Zhang, D. Piccinotti, E. Plum and K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2020, Digital Forum, 23 - 27 Aug 2020
  4. (invited) Chalcogenide reconfigurable metamaterials
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, T. Martins, A. Karvounis, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, 11 - 15 Aug 2019
  5. Fibre-integrated phase-change devices
    T. Martins, B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, J. Y. Ou, K. F. MacDonald, O. Frazão, A. Peacock, and N. I. Zheludev
    IV International Conference on Applications in Optics and Photonics (AOP 2019), Lisbon, Portugal 31 May – 04 Jun 2019
  6. (invited) Chalcogenide phase-change photonic metamaterials
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, T. Martins, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    MRS Spring Meeting 2019, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 22-26 Apr 2019
  7. (invited) Phase-change photonic metamaterials
    K. F. MacDonald, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, T. Martins, B. Gholipour, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, Baltimore, MD, USA, 14-18 Apr 2019
  8. (poster) Hollow-core waveguides with n<1 chalcogenide cladding
    J. Li, B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2019, Seefeld, Austria, 3 - 6 Jan 2019
  9. (poster) Quantum emitters in epsilon-near-zero and negative epsilon environments
    H. Li, J. K. So, B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, N. Papasimakis, V. F. Fedotov, W. Gao, B. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2019, Seefeld, Austria, 3 - 6 Jan 2019
  10. (invited) Extraordinary properties of chalcogenide metamaterials
    K. F. MacDonald, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2018, Espoo, Finland, 27 Aug – 1 Sept 2018
  11. Extraordinary properties of epsilon-near-zero and low-index chalcogenide metamaterials
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2018, San Jose, CA, USA, 13-18 May 2018
  12. (invited) New materials for metamaterials: plasmonic and ENZ chalcogenides
    K. F. MacDonald, D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe 2018, Strasbourg, France, 22-26 Apr 2018
  13. (invited) Optical switching in nanostructured phase change materials
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Photonics West 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2018, 27 Jan - 1 Feb 2018
  14. (invited) Not-so-extraordinary transmission through an array of nano-holes in a metal film
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    PIERS 2017, Singapore, Singapore, 19 - 22 Nov 2017
  15. Tunable epsilon near-zero chalcogenides
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials'2017, Marseille, France, 28 - 31 Aug 2017
  16. (invited) Merging metamaterial and optical fiber technologies
    N. I. Zheludev, K. F. MacDonald, E. Plum, A. Karvounis, D. Piccinotti, A. Xomalis, I. Demirtzioglou, V. Savinov, B. Gholipour, Y. Jung, P. Petropoulos, and D. J. Richardson
    META2017, Seoul, South Korea, 25 - 28 Jul 2017
  17. (invited) Merging photonic metamaterial and optical fiber technologies
    A. Xomalis, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, I. Demirtzioglou, V. Savinov, B. Gholipour, J. Y. Ou, Y. Jung, E. Plum, P. Petropoulos, K. F. MacDonald, D. J. Richardson, and N. I. Zheludev
    Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics, New Orleans, LA, USA, 24 - 27 Jul 2017
  18. Combinatorial search for plasmonic and epsilon-near-zero chalcogenide alloys
    D. Piccinotti, B. Gholipour, J. Yao, K. F. MacDonald, B. E. Hayden, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO Europe - EQEC 2017 , Munich, Germany 25 - 29 Jun 2017
  19. Fibre-coupled photonic metadevices
    A. Xomalis, D. Piccinotti, A. Karvounis, H. Zhang, V. Savinov, B. Gholipour, Y. Jung, A. C. Peacock, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, D. J. Richardson, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2017, Seefeld, Austria, 4 - 7 Jan 2017
  20. (poster) Plasmonic response of chalcogenides and switchable all-dielectric metamaterials
    B. Gholipour, D. Piccinotti, J. Yao, A. Karvounis, J. Yin, C. Soci, B. E. Hayden, K. F. MacDonald, N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2017, Seefeld, Austria, 4 - 7 Jan 2017
  21. (invited) Nano-optomechanical dielectric metasurfaces reconfigurable with light
    A. Karvounis, J. Y. Ou, D. Piccinotti, W. Wu, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    Materials Research Society MRS 2015 Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, USA, 29 Nov - 4 Dec 2015