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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

Coherently switching the focusing characteristics of all-dielectric metalenses
Fei He,
Yu Feng,
Hailong Pi,
Jize Yan,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Xu Fang
, 2022 , Optics Express , 30 (15) , 27683--27693
DOI: 10.1364/OE.461264
Type: article
Optical control of nanomechanical brownian motion eigenfrequencies in metamaterials
Jinxiang Li,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022 , Nano Letters , 22 (11) , 4301 -- 4306
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04900
Type: article
From phase change nanophotonics to phase change nano-opto-mechanics
Tongjun Liu,
Dimitrios Papas,
Jinxiang Li,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Eric Plum,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022
Type: conference
Reconfiguring photonic metamaterials with the pressure of light
Jinxiang Li,
Kevin F. MacDonald,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022
Type: conference
Nonlinear nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Kevin F. MacDonald,
Jinxiang Li,
Dimitrios Papas,
Jun-Yu Ou,
Eric Plum,
& Nikolai Zheludev
, 2022
Type: conference
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