Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Electrochemistry
Lead researchers:

Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden,

Dr Eric Plum,

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

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Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

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Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow

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Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

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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

Optical gating of graphene on photoconductive Fe:LiNbO₃

Jonathan Gorecki, Vasileios Apostolopoulos, Jun-Yu Ou, Sakellaris Mailis & Nikitas Papasimakis, 2018, ACS Nano, 12(6), 5940-5945

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02161

Type: article

Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers

Girish Agarwal, Roland E. Allen, Iva Bezděková, Robert W. Boyd, Goong Chen, Ronald Hanson, Dean L. Hawthorne, Philip Hemmer, Moochan B. Kim, Olga Kocharovskaya, David M. Lee, Sebastian K. Lidström, Suzy Lidström, Harald Losert, Helmut Maier, John W. Neuberger, Miles J. Padgett, Mark Raizen, Surjeet Rajendran, Ernst Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Marlan O. Scully, Gavriil Shchedrin, Gennady Shvets, Alexei Sokolov, Anatoly Svidzinsky, Ronald L. Walsworth, Rainer Weiss, Frank Wilczek, Alan E. Willner, Eli Yablonovich & Nikolay Zheludev, 2018, Journal of Modern Optics, 65(11), 1261-1308

DOI: 10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525

Type: article

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

Phase-change-driven dielectric-plasmonic transitions in chalcogenide metasurfaces

Behrad Gholipour, Artemios Karvounis, Jun Yin, Cesare Soci, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2018, NPG Asia Materials, 10, 533-539

DOI: 10.1038/s41427-018-0043-4

Type: article

Superconducting dual-channel photonic switch

2018, Advanced Materials, 1-8

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201801257

Type: article