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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
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Email: [email protected]

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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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.
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Email: [email protected]

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

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
Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase, amplitude and polarization
Tong Wu, Xueqian Zhang, Quan Xu, Eric Plum, Kaiji Chen, Yuehong Xu, Yongchang Lu, Huifang Zhang, Ziying Zhang, Xieyu Chen, Guanhua Ren, Li Niu, Zhen Tian, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2022, Advanced Optical Materials, 10(1)
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202101223
Type: article
Optomechanical metamaterial nanobolometer
Dimitrios Papas, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6
DOI: 10.1063/5.0073583
Type: article
Thermal fluctuations of the optical properties of nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Jinxiang Li, Dimitrios Papas, Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin F. MacDonald, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Advanced Optical Materials, 10
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202101591
Type: article
Mechanically tunable terahertz metamaterial perfect absorber
Lewis K. Piper, H. Johnson Singh, Jonathan R. C. Woods, Kai Sun, Otto L. Muskens & Vasilis Apostolopoulos, 2021, Advanced Photonics Research, 2(12), 2100136
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100136
Type: article