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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

The physics and applications of coherent control of metasurfaces
Nikolai Zheludev, Kevin MacDonald, Eric Plum & Daniele Faccio, 2018
Type: conference
Electromagnetic sources beyond common multipoles
2018, Physical Review A, 98(2)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023858
Type: article
A non-volatile chalcogenide switchable hyperbolic metamaterial
Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Behrad Gholipour, Nikolai Zheludev & Cesare Soci, 2018, Advanced Optical Materials
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201800332
Type: article
Optical bistability in shape-memory nanowire metamaterial array
Yusuke Nagasaki, Behrad Gholipour, Jun-Yu Ou, Masanori Tsuruta, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, Junichi Takahara & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Applied Physics Letters, 113
DOI: 10.1063/1.5025400
Type: article
Strong coupling of epsilon-near-zero phonon polaritons in polar dielectric heterostructures
Nikolai Christian Passler, Christopher R. Gubbin, Thomas Graeme Folland, Ilya Razdolski, D. Scott Katzer, David F. Storm, Martin Wolf, Simone De Liberato, Joshua D. Caldwell & Alexander Paarmann, 2018, Nano Letters, 18(7), 4285-4292
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01273
Type: article