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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Connect with Brian

Email: B.E.Hayden@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Eric

Email: erp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

  • Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
  • Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
  • Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.
Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

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

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

Visualization of Sub-atomic Movements in Nanostructures
Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Nano Letters, 21(18), 7746-7752
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02644
Type: article
Integrated terahertz generator-manipulators using epsilon-near-zero-hybrid nonlinear metasurfaces
Yongchang Lu, Xi Feng, Qingwei Wang, Xueqian Zhang, Ming Fang, Wei E. I. Sha, Zhixiang Huang, Quan Xu, Li Niu, Xieyu Chen, Chunmei Ouyang, Yuanmu Yang, Xixiang Zhang, Eric Plum, Shuang Zhang, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2021, Nano Letters, 21(18), 7699-7707
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02372
Type: article
Picophotonics
Carolina Rendon-Barraza, Eng Aik Chan, Jinxiang Li, Tongjun Liu, Kevin F. MacDonald, Jun-Yu Ou, Dimitrios Papas, Nikitas Papasimakis, Eric Plum, Tanchao Pu, Guanghui Yuan & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
Type: conference
Metamaterial Nanomachines driven by heat, sound, electric and magnetic fields, and light
Kevin F. MacDonald, Jinxiang Li, Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Dimitrios Papas, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2594665
Type: conference
Phase-change optical nonlinearity as a cellular automaton
Liwei Zhang, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2594893
Type: conference