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

Reflective chiral meta-holography

Qiu Wang, Eric Plum, Quanlong Yang, Xueqian Zhang, Quan Xu, Yuehong Xu, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2018, Light: Science & Applications, 7, 1-9

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-018-0019-8

Type: article

Ultra-confined surface phonon polaritons in molecular layers of van der Waals dielectrics

Alexander Dubrovkin, Bo Qiang, Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Nikolai Zheludev & Qi Jie Wang, 2018, Nature Communications, 9, 1-6

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04168-x

Type: article

Hybrid photon–plasmon coupling and ultrafast control of nanoantennas on a silicon photonic chip

Bigeng Chen, Roman Bruck, Daniel Traviss, Ali Z. Khokhar, Scott Reynolds, David J. Thomson, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Graham T. Reed & Otto L. Muskens, 2017, Nano Letters, 18(1), 610-617

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04861

Type: article

Liquid crystal-filled meta-pixel with switchable asymmetric reflectance and transmittance

2017, Journal of Molecular Liquids

DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.12.118

Type: article

Controlling the optical response of 2D matter in standing waves

Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, Xu Fang, Daniele Faccio & Nikolai Zheludev, 2017, ACS Photonics, 4(12), 3000-3011

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00921

Type: review