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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

Mark Stockman, the knight of plasmonics
Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Nature Photonics, 15(5), 321-322
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00799-7
Type: letterEditorial
Temperature-controlled optical activity and negative refractive index
Meng Liu, Eric Plum, Hua Li, Shaoxian Li, Quan Xu, Xueqian Zhang, Caihong Zhang, Chongwen Zou, Biaobing Jin, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials, 31(14)
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202010249
Type: article
Second harmonic generation in amorphous silicon-on-silica metamaterial
Jie Xu, Eric Plum, Vassili Savinov & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6(3)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0037428
Type: article
Mark Stockman: Evangelist for Plasmonics
Javier Aizpurua, H A Atwater, J J Baumberg, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, M L Brongersma, Jennifer A. Dionne, Harald Giessen, Naomi J. Halas, Y.S. Kivshar, Matthias Kling, F Krausz, S Maier, Sergey V. Makarov, M Mikkelsen, M Moskovits, P Norlander, Teri W. Odom, A Polman, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Merdechai Segev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, P Torma, D.P. Tsai, E Verhagen, Anatoly V. Zayats, X Zhang & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, ACS Photonics, 8(3), 683-698
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00299
Type: review
Cellular automata dynamics of nonlinear optical processes in a phase-change material
Liwei Zhang, Robin Francis Waters, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Applied Physics Reviews, 8(1)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0015363
Type: article