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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

New materials for metamaterials: plasmonic and ENZ chalcogenides
Davide Piccinotti, Behrad Gholipour, Jin Yao, Kevin F. MacDonald, Brian Hayden & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018
Type: conference
Ultrafast coherent absorption in diamond metamaterials
Artemios Karvounis, Venkatram Nalla, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai I. Zheludev, 2018, Advanced Materials, 30(14)
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201707354
Type: article
Optimising superoscillatory spots for far-field super-resolution imaging
K.S. Rogers, Konstantinos Bourdakos, Guanghui Yuan, Sumeet Mahajan & Edward T.F. Rogers, 2018, Optics Express, 26(7), 8095-8112
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.008095
Type: article
Roadmap on plasmonics
Mark I. Stockman, Katrin Kneipp, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Soham Saha, Aveeka Dutta, Justus Ndukaife, Nathaniel Kinsey, Harsha Reddy, Urcan Guler, Vladimir Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Behrad Gholipour, Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Kevin F. MacDonald, Cesare Soci, Nikolai Zheludev, Vassili Savinov, Ranjan Singh, Petra Groß, C. Lienau, Michal Vadai, Michelle L. Solomon, David R. Barton, Mark Lawrence, Jennifer A. Dionne, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Ruben Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, Xiang Zhang, Sui Yang, Danqing Wang, Weijia Wang, Teri W. Odom, Nick van Hulst & Matthias Kling, 2018, Journal of Optics, 20(4)
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/aaa114
Type: article
Ultrafast all-optical switching of germanium-based flexible metaphotonic devices
Wen-Xiang Lim, Manukumara Manjappa, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Longqing Cong, Abhishek Kumar, Kevin F. MacDonald & Ranjan Singh, 2018, Advanced Materials, 30(9)
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705331
Type: article