This session covers advancements in nano-scale light manipulation, focusing on plasmonics and metamaterials. It includes new designs, theoretical approaches, experimental techniques, and applications in sensing, imaging, and photonic devices, highlighting challenges and opportunities in cutting-edge optical engineering.

This session explores advanced metasurface modeling techniques spanning microwave to optical frequencies. It highlights design principles, numerical methods, and material considerations that enable precise wavefront control. Emphasis is placed on unified modeling approaches that bridge scales, supporting innovative applications in antennas, imaging, sensing, and compact linear and non linear photonics devices for next-generation electromagnetic systems.

This session will focus on advanced manufacturing techniques, including additive manufacturing, hybrid processes, and other emerging fabrication methods, that enable fast prototyping, enhanced customization, and improved performance of antennas and, more broadly, radiofrequency and microwave devices. The session aims to showcase innovative contributions that exploit the design freedom and material versatility offered by these technologies to overcome fabrication challenges and unlock new possibilities in the realization and optimization of electromagnetic devices.

This session explores cutting-edge advances in nonlinear metasurfaces and flat-optics, examining efficient frequency generation, all-optical signal processing, and terahertz wave generation in ultrathin nanostructured platforms. It highlights design strategies and material engineering that enable efficient nonlinear optical processes in subwavelength structures. Emphasis is placed on architectures that achieve innovative applications in all-optical signal processing, terahertz generation, quantum photonics, and compact nonlinear devices for next-generation integrated nonlinear optical systems.

This session focuses on advanced concepts and methodologies for controlling electromagnetic scattering and tailoring wave propagation through engineered artificial media across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The session highlights both fundamental and application-driven approaches, encompassing rigorous modelling techniques, physical insights into wave–matter interactions, and design strategies for next-generation EM platforms.

This session explores emerging concepts and applications of time modulation in electromagnetics. The temporal platform not only offers new opportunities to uncover unconventional wave phenomena but also to enhance the functionality of electromagnetic devices beyond the limits of conventional time-invariant designs. This session will highlight recent advances in antennas, filters, absorbers, isolators, circulators, and sensors enabled by the temporal platform, as well as other electromagnetic systems where time modulation plays a key role.

This session explores the interaction of light with nanostructures and metasurfaces. The focus is on harnessing these sophisticated architectures to control electromagnetic waves to tailor the emitted light at will or convert light energy into heat and/or acoustic vibrations. The session also includes metalens coupling with photonic integrated circuits.

The goal of this special session is to bring together high-quality, cutting-edge contributions by PhD students and young professionals addressing emerging research topics in antennas and metasurfaces. The session will cover both theoretical and experimental aspects related to the analysis and design of innovative antennas, metasurfaces, periodic structures, lenses, and near-field focusing devices for next-generation wireless communication and power transfer systems. The session aims to provide an interactive and stimulating forum for young researchers who have already made significant contributions in this field, fostering scientific exchange, promoting collaborations, and engaging a broad audience by highlighting new ideas and perspectives in antennas and metasurfaces.

Antennas are becoming a key part of modern wireless systems with advanced functionalities, including Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) (a.k.a. Joint Communication And (Radar) Sensing, JCAS), Real Time Localization Systems (RTLS), and Radiative Wireless Power Transfer (RWPT). This session explores some of the latest developments on new materials and reconfigurable antenna topologies for efficient wireless networks with advanced RLTS/JCAS/RWPT functionalities, including hybrid digital/analog beamforming, dynamic frequency allocation and frequency-beam scanning, covering both theoretical and experimental results.

This session focuses on inverse problem methodologies applied to the synthesis, design, and characterization of electromagnetic devices and systems. It aims to bring together advances in inverse design, optimization, and diagnostics, spanning from theoretical formulations to computational techniques and experimental validation.

This session explores the latest advancements in electromagnetic systems operating from Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared wavelengths. It focuses on how novel materials, nanophotonics, and integrated devices are overcoming current design limits to enable next-generation sensing, imaging, and communication technologies.

The session focuses on recent advancements in nanomaterials and complex media for sensing and optoelectronic devices. It addresses novel material platforms, engineered media, and recursive fractal structures enabling enhanced light–matter interaction across a broad spectral range. Contributions will cover material fabrication and experimental characterization, as well as theoretical modeling and design, with applications ranging from optical sensing and optoelectronics to antenna systems.