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Research project

Next Generation Optical Metrology Driven by Nanophotonics

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Kevin Macdonald

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Kevin

Email: kfm@orc.soton.ac.uk

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Eric

Email: erp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

An ultra-compact metasurface and specklemeter based chromatic confocal sensor
Przemyslaw Ludwik Falak, Justin Ho-Tin Chan, James Williamson, Andrew Henning, Timothy Lee, Shahrzad Zahertar, Christopher Holmes, Martynas Beresna, Haydn Martin, Gilberto Brambilla & Xiangqian Jiang, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73, 1-8
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2024.3381698
Type: article
Picometer topological optical metrology at a million measurements per second
Cheng-Hung Chi, Thomas Grant, Eric Plum, Kevin MacDonald & Nikolay Zheludev, 2024
Type: conference
Continuous space-time crystal state driven by nonreciprocal optical forces
Venugopal Shyamkumar Raskatla, Tongjun Liu, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay Zheludev, 2024
Type: conference
Nonlinear Terahertz Generation: Chiral and Achiral Meta-atom Coupling
Qingwei Wang, Xueqian Zhang, Quan Xu, Xi Feng, Yongchang Lu, Li Niu, Xieyu Chen, Eric Plum, Jianqiang Gu, Quanlong Yang, Ming Fang, Zhixiang Huang, Shuang Zhang, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2023, Advanced Functional Materials, 33(29)
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202300639
Type: article
Picophotonic localization metrology beyond thermal fluctuations
Tongjun Liu, Cheng-Hung Chi, Jun-Yu Ou, Jie Xu, Eng Aik Chan, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2023, Nature Materials, 22(7), 844-847
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01543-y
Type: article