Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Electrochemistry
Lead researcher:

Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden,

Dr Eric Plum,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Otto Muskens
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Second harmonic generation by silicon metamaterial on a fibre tip

Jie Xu, Eric Plum, Vassili Savinov & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference

Hybrid bistability in nano-opto-mechanical metamaterial

Dimitrios Papas, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference

Gigahertz nano-optomechanical resonances in a dielectric SiC-membrane metasurface array

Idris A. Ajia, Jun-Yu Ou, H. Johnson Singh, Theo Chen-Sverre, Tongjun Liu, Nikolay I. Zheludev & Otto L. Muskens, 2021, Nano Letters, 21(11), 4563 - 4569

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00205

Type: article

Giant electrogyration in a nanomechanical metamaterial

Qiang Zhang, Eric Plum, Jun-Yu Ou, Hailong Pi, Junqing Li, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference

Second harmonic generation in a fiberized amorphous silicon metamaterial

Jie Xu, Eric Plum, Vassili Savinov & Nikolai I. Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference