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Research project

Electrical and picosecond optical control of plasmonic nanoantenna hybrid devices

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Other researchers

Professor Kees De Groot

Professor
Research interests
  • Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
  • 2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides  Transistors
  • Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO…
Connect with Kees

Email: chdg@southampton.ac.uk

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector
Kai Sun, Christoph A. Riedel, Alessandro Urbani, Mirko Simeoni, Sandro Mengali, Maksim Zalkovskij, Brian Bilenberg, C.H. De Groot & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, ACS Photonics, 5(6), 2280-2286
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00119
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
Nanoscale modeling of electro-plasmonic tunable devices for modulators and metasurfaces
Christoph A. Riedel, Kai Sun, Otto L. Muskens & C.H. De Groot, 2017, Optics Express, 25(9), 10031-10043
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.010031
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
Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase-transition in vanadium dioxide
Otto L. Muskens, Luca Bergamini, Yudong Wang, Jeffrey M. Gaskell, Nerea Zabala, C.H. de Groot, David W. Sheel & Javier Aizpurua, 2016, Light: Science & Applications, 5(10), 1-9
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2016.173
Type: article
Optimised atmospheric pressure CVD of monoclinic VO2 thin films with picosecond phase transition
Jeffrey M. Gaskell, Mohammad Afzaal, David W. Sheel, Heather M. Yates, Kaveh Delfanazari & Otto Muskens, 2016, Surface and Coatings Technology, 287, 160-165
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2015.12.090
Type: article
Tailoring second-harmonic generation in single L-shaped plasmonic nanoantennas from the capacitive to conductive coupling regime
Leo-Jay Black, Peter R. Wiecha, Yudong Wang, C. H. de Groot, Vincent Paillard, Christian Girard, Otto L. Muskens & Arnaud Arbouet, 2015, ACS Photonics, 2(11), 1592-1601
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00358
Type: article