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

Phase-change Nanophotonics

Kevin F. MacDonald, 2017

Type: conference

All-optical pattern recognition and image processing on a metamaterial beam splitter

Maria Papaioannou, Eric Plum & Nikolay Zheludev, 2017, ACS Photonics, 4, 217-222

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00921

Type: article

Polarization conversion in plasmonic nanoantennas for metasurfaces using structural asymmetry and mode hybridization

Peter R. Wiecha, Leo-Jay Black, Yudong Wang, Vincent Paillard, Christian Girard, Otto Muskens & Arnaud Arbouet, 2017, Scientific Reports, 7(40906), 1-11

DOI: 10.1038/srep40906

Type: article

Flying donuts: toroidal electromagnetic excitations in matter and free space

Nikolai Zheludev, 2017

Type: conference

Optical range plasmonics of niobium around the superconducting transition temperature

C. Y. Liao, H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, V. Savinov, J.-Y. Ou, C. Huang, G. Adamo, E. Plum, K.F. MacDonald, Y. D. Chong, C. Soci, F. V. Kusmartsev, D. P. Tsai & N.I. Zheludev, 2017

Type: conference