Professor Anatoly Zayats Professor Anatoly Zayats Academics Supervisors Professor of Physics Head of Photonics & Nanotechnology Group. Net Zero Centre Co-Director. Research subject areas Physics Contact details +44 020 7848 2477 a.zayats@kcl.ac.uk
Meso-chiral optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles: uncovering hidden chirality Polarization Conversion and Optical Meron Topologies in Anisotropic Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials Hot-electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures: fundamentals, applications and overlooked aspects Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces Copper-based core-shell metamaterials with ultra-broadband and reversible ENZ tunability Roadmap on structured waves Large area single crystal gold of single nanometer thickness for nanophotonics Time-Dependent Ultrafast Quadratic Nonlinearity in an Epsilon-Near-Zero Platform Propagation of focused scalar and vector vortex beams in anisotropic media: A semi-analytical approach Propagation of focused scalar and vector vortex beams in anisotropic media: A semi-analytical approach Ultrafast hot-carrier dynamics in ultrathin monocrystalline gold Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light Thermal control of polarization of light with nonlocal plasmonic anisotropic metamaterials Femtosecond laser modified metal surfaces alter biofilm architecture and reduce bacterial biofilm formation Waveguide-Integrated Light-Emitting Metal–Insulator–Graphene Tunnel Junctions Broadband Transient Response and Wavelength-Tunable Photoacoustics in Plasmonic Hetero-nanoparticles Nondiffractive three-dimensional polarization features of optical vortex beams Carrier density tuning in CuS nanoparticles and thin films by Zn doping via ion exchange Topological transformation and free-space transport of photonic hopfions Tailoring optical field topologies with plasmonics and metamaterials Enhancement of Optical Spin-Orbit Coupling in Anisotropic ENZ Metamaterials Effect of Mirror Quality on Optical Response of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Plasmonic Nanocavities Photoelectrochemical Detection of Calcium Ions Based on Hematite Nanorod Sensors Stable optical lateral forces from inhomogeneities of the spin angular momentum Temperature stability of individual plasmonic Au and TiN nanodiscs Molecular plasmonics with metamaterials Humidity-induced direct modification of optical response of plasmonic nanorod metamaterials On-chip high-speed coherent optical signal detection based on photonic spin-Hall effect Integrated Janus dipole source for selective coupling to silicon waveguide networks Plasmonic Nanocavity Induced Coupling and Boost of Dark Excitons in Monolayer WSe2at Room Temperature Atomically smooth single-crystalline platform for low-loss plasmonic nanocavities Nonlocality-enabled pulse management in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials Long-Range Directional Routing and Spatial Selection of High-Spin-Purity Valley Trion Emission in Monolayer WS2 Diffractive characterization of sub-wavelength objects with machine learning Long-range directional routing and spatial selection of high spin-pu- rity valley trion emission in monolayer WS Photonic spin lattices: symmetry constraints for skyrmion and meron topologies Spontaneous Emission in Nonlocal Metamaterials with Spatial Dispersion Nonlinear frequency conversion in optical nanoantennas and metasurfaces: Materials evolution and fabrication Optical spin-orbit coupling in the presence of magnetization: photonic skyrmion interaction with magnetic domains Dynamics of Hot Carriers in Plasmonic Heterostructures Directional imbalance of Bloch surface waves for ultrasensitive displacement Light-induced symmetry breaking for enhancing second-harmonic generation from an ultrathin plasmonic nanocavity Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Nucleic Acids Based on Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Angle-insensitive plasmonic nanorod metamaterial-based band-pass optical filters Machine learning-based diffractive image analysis with subwavelength resolution Self-Assembled Plasmonic Coaxial Nanocavities for High-Definition Broad-Angle Coloring in Reflection and Transmission Mode Engineering in Large Arrays of Coupled Plasmonic–Dielectric Nanoantennas Rational design of bimetallic photocatalysts based on plasmonically-derived hot carriers Transverse spin dynamics in structured electromagnetic guided waves Self-assembled plasmonic coaxial nanocavities for high-definition broadangle coloring in reflection and transmission View all publications
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