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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

Deeply Sub-Wavelength Non-Contact Optical Metrology of Sub-Wavelength Objects
Carolina Rendon-Barraza,
Eng Aik Chan,
Guanghui Yuan,
Giorgio Adamo,
Tanchao Pu,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021 , Applied Physics Letters , 6 (6)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0048139
Type: article
Mark Stockman, the knight of plasmonics
Alexandra Boltasseva,
Vladimir M. Shalaev,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021 , Nature Photonics , 15 (5) , 321--322
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00799-7
Type: letterEditorial
Optical magnetic response without metamaterials
Jinxiang Li,
Nikitas Papasimakis,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolay I. Zheludev
, 2021 , APL Photonics , 6 (7)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0054752
Type: article
Nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Eric Plum,
Dimitrios Papas,
Jinxiang Li,
Tongjun Liu,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Qiang Zhang,
Guoqiang Lan,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021
DOI: 10.48448/f3et-d765
Type: conference
Dynamics of nanomechanical metamaterials: Pico-vibrometry with light and electron beams
Jun-Yu Ou,
Tongjun Liu,
Jinxiang Li,
Dimitrios Papas,
Eric Plum,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2021
Type: conference