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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

Superoscillation and Super-resolution
Kevin F. MacDonald
, 2022
Type: conference
Deep learning enabled strategies for modeling of complex aperiodic plasmonic metasurfaces of arbitrary size
Clément Majorel,
Christian Girard,
Arnaud Arbouet,
Otto L. Muskens,
& Peter R. Wiecha
, 2022 , ACS Photonics , 9 (2) , 575--585
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01556
Type: article
Ballistic dynamics of flexural thermal movements in a nano-membrane revealed with subatomic resolution
Tongjun Liu,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Nikitas Papasimakis,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
Vitalyi Gusev,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022 , Science Advances , 8 (33)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn8007
Type: article
Wafer-Scale 200 mm Metal Oxide Infrared Metasurface with Tailored Differential Emissivity Response in the Atmospheric Windows
Kai Sun,
Evangelos Vassos,
Xingzhao Yan,
Callum Wheeler,
James Churm,
Peter R. Wiecha,
Simon A. Gregory,
Alex Feresidis,
Cornelis H. de Groot,
& Otto L. Muskens
, 2022 , Advanced Optical Materials , 10 (17)
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202200452
Type: article
Nonlinear nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Eric Plum,
Dimitrios Papas,
Jinxiang Li,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022
Type: conference
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