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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

Picophotonics: visible invisible
Carolina Rendon-Barraza, Eng Aik Chan, Sergei Kurdiumov, Tongjun Liu, Kevin F. MacDonald, Jun-Yu Ou, Nikitas Papasimakis, Tanchao Pu, Guanghui Yuan & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2595070
Type: conference
Dynamics of nanomechanical metamaterials: Pico-vibrometry with light and electron beams
Jun-Yu Ou, Tongjun Liu, Jinxiang Li, Dimitrios Papas, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
Type: conference
Optical magnetic response without metamaterials
Jinxiang Li, Nikitas Papasimakis, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6(7)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0054752
Type: article
Nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Eric Plum, Dimitrios Papas, Jinxiang Li, Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Qiang Zhang, Guoqiang Lan, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021
DOI: 10.48448/f3et-d765
Type: conference
Active Control of Nano-dielectric-induced THz Quasi-BIC in Flexible Metasurfaces: A Platform for Modulation and Sensing
Thomas CaiWei Tan, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Rajour Tanyi Ako, Wenhao Wang, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, Ibraheem Al-Naib, Eric Plum & Ranjan Singh, 2021, Advanced Materials, 33(27)
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202100836
Type: article