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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

Spontaneous natural optical activity in disordered media
F.A. Pinheiro, V.A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis & N.I. Zheludev, 2017, Physical Review B, 95(22)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.220201
Type: article
Efficient lattice mode coupling to THz Fano metamaterial with line-narrowing effect
Thomas Tan CaiWei, Eric Plum & Ranjan Singh, 2017
Type: conference
Plasmonic response of superconducting niobium in the optical spectral range
C. Y. Liao, H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, V. Savinov, J.-Y. Ou, C. Huang, G. Adamo, E. Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, Y. D. Chong, Otto Muskens, C. Soci, F. V. Kusmartzev, D. P. Tsai & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Synthesis and screening of phase change chalcogenide thin film materials for data storage
Brian Hayden, Daniel Hewak, Christopher Vian & Samuel Guerin, 2017, ACS Combinatorial Science
DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.7b00047
Type: article
Polarization and frequency multiplexed terahertz meta-holography
Qui Wang, Xueqian Zhang, Eric Plum, Quan Xu, Minggui Wei, Yuehong Xu, Huifang Zhang, Yi Liao, Jianqiang Gu, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2017, Advanced Optical Materials, 5(14)
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201700277
Type: article