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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

Spatial optical phase-modulating metadevice with subwavelength pixelation
Pablo Cencillo Abad, Eric Plum, Edward Rogers & Nikolay Zheludev, 2016, Optics Express, 24(16), 18790-18798
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.018790
Type: article
All-dielectric phase-change reconfigurable metasurface
Artemios Karvounis, Behrad Gholipour, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2016, Applied Physics Letters, 109(5)
DOI: 10.1063/1.4959272
Type: article
Roadmap on optical metamaterials
Augustine M. Urbas, Zubin Jacob, Luca Dal Negro, Nader Engheta, A.D. Boardman, P. Egan, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Vinod Menon, Marcello Ferrera, Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, Jongbum Kim, Vladimir Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jason Valentine, Pfeiffer Carl, Anthony Grbic, Evgenii Narimanov, Linxiao Zhu, Shanhui Fan, Andrea Alù, Ekaterina Poutrina, Natalia M. Litchinitser, Mikhail A. Noginov, Kevin F. MacDonald, Eric Plum, Xiaoying Liu, Paul F. Nealey, Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray, Dorota A. Pawlak, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova & Debashis Chanda, 2016, Journal of Optics, 18(9), 1
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/9/093005
Type: article
Evanescent field sensing of moving free-electrons based on optical fibre probe tips
Jinkyu So, Kevin MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016
Type: conference
Nano- and micro-auxetic plasmonic materials
João Valente, Eric Plum, Ian J. Youngs & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2016, Advanced Materials, 28(26), 5176-5180
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600088
Type: article