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Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers

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.

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

Temperature-controlled optical activity and negative refractive index
Meng Liu,
Eric Plum,
Hua Li,
Shaoxian Li,
Quan Xu,
Xueqian Zhang,
Caihong Zhang,
Chongwen Zou,
Biaobing Jin,
Jiaguang Han,
& Weili Zhang
, 2021 , Advanced Functional Materials , 31 (14)
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202010249
Type: article
Picophotonics
Carolina Rendon-Barraza,
Eng Aik Chan,
Jinxiang Li,
Tongjun Liu,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Dimitrios Papas,
Nikitas Papasimakis,
Eric Plum,
Tanchao Pu,
Guanghui Yuan,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021
Type: conference
First observation of phonon-induced ballistic motion in photonic nanostructures
Tongjun Liu,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021
Type: conference
Gigahertz nano-optomechanical resonances in a dielectric SiC-membrane metasurface array
Idris A. Ajia,
Jun-Yu Ou,
H. Johnson Singh,
Theo Chen-Sverre,
Tongjun Liu,
Nikolay I. Zheludev,
& Otto L. Muskens
, 2021 , Nano Letters , 21 (11) , 4563 -- 4569
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00205
Type: article
Engineering the collapse of lifetime distribution of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds
Hao Li,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Behrad Gholipour,
Jinkyu So,
Davide Piccinotti,
Vassili Fedotov,
& Nikitas Papasimakis
, 2021 , Applied Physics Letters , 118 (26)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0054780
Type: article