Photonics & Nanotechnology

The research in the group involves the development and applications of advanced photonic technologies and of novel nanomaterials to address modern challenges in photonic and quantum technologies, new nanostructured materials, sensing, imaging and clean energy. The group adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide leading-edge research in optical, mechanical and structural properties of nanostructures and nanoparticles. We combine expertise in nanofabrication, laser science, nonlinear optics, sensing, advanced imaging techniques and numerical modelling.

The research is centred around three overarching themes:

Functional nanoparticles and nanostructures
Nanophotonics, metamaterials and plasmonics
Ultrafast optics and optomechanics

Nanostrand is the newsletter for the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group.

Members

Vittorio Aita

PhD Student

Anton Bykov

Research Associate

Wayne Dickson

Senior Lecturer

Yitong (Erica) Duan

PhD Student

Mark Green

Professor

Yanhui Hu

PhD Student

Yunlu Jiang

PhD Student

Robert Jones

PhD Student

Jack Kingsley-Smith

Research Associate

Alexey Krasavin

Research Associate

Samjid Mannan

Professor

Cillian McPolin

Research Associate

James Millen

Senior Lecturer

Mazhar Nasir

Research Associate

Maryam Nikkhou

Research Associate

Katie O'Flynn

PhD Student

Sinuhé Perea-Puente

PhD Student

Michela Florinda Picardi

Research Associate

Emilio Pisanty

Research Fellow

Steve Po

PhD Student

Aliaksandra Rakovich

Research Fellow

Muddassar Rashid

Research Associate

Yugang Ren

PhD Student

David Richards

Professor of Physics

Francisco Rodríguez Fortuño

Reader

Mayela Romero-Gómez

PhD Student

Diane Roth

Research Associate

Amaresh Shukla

PhD Student

Anne Weber

PhD Student

Lei Wei

Research Associate

Andrew Whittington

PhD Student

Jingyi Wu

PhD Student

Yuanyang Xie

PhD Student

Amelle Zaïr

Lecturer

Anastasiia Zaleska

Research Associate

Anatoly Zayats

Professor

Cong Zhao

PhD Student

Yang Zuo

PhD Student

GaP disks on a photoelectrode for enhanced water splitting Ludwig Hüttenhofer

CPLAS: New perspectives in photocatalysis and near-surface chemistry: catalysis meets plasmonics

EPSRC programme grant investigating light-driven energy-conversion at the nanoscale for stimulating chemical transformations.

iComm: New Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Integrating Complex Beams and Active Metasurface Devices

Transforming the areas of both complex optical beams and metasurfaces.

LeviTeQ: Levitated Nanoparticles for Technology and Quantum Nanophysics

The levitated nanophysics group at King’s College London run ERC Starting Grant LeviTeQ: Levitated Nanoparticles for Technology and Quantum Nanophysics,.

Reactive Plasmonics

Reactive Plasmonics is an EPSRC funded programme grant that researches nanoplasmonics.

Epidemiology and outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in England
Hawkes, C., Booth, S., Ji, C., Brace-McDonnell, S. J., Whittington, A., Mapstone, J., Cooke, M. W., Deakin, C. D., Gale, C. P., Fothergill, R., Nolan, J. P., Rees, N., Soar, J., Siriwardena, A. N., Brown, T. P. & Perkins, G. D., Jan 2017, In: Resuscitation. 110, p. 133-140 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.10.030
On-chip high-speed coherent optical signal detection based on photonic spin-Hall effect
Zayats, A., 19 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Laser and Photonics Reviews. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quasi-in-situ observation of the grain growth and grain boundary movement in sintered Cu nanoparticle interconnects
Zuo, Y., Zhao, C., Robador, A., Wickham, M. & Mannan, S., 30 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: ACTA MATERIALIA. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Integrated Janus dipole source for selective coupling to silicon waveguide networks
Picardi, M. F., Mcpolin, C. P. T., Kingsley-Smith, J. J., Zhang, X., Xiao, S., Rodríguez-fortuño, F. J. & Zayats, A. V., 1 Jun 2022, In: Applied Physics Reviews. 9, 2, p. 021410 021410. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085487
Optical multipolar torque in structured electromagnetic fields: On helicity gradient torque, quadrupolar torque, and spin of the field gradient
Wei, L. & Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. J., 15 Mar 2022, In: Physical Review B. 105, 12, 125424. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.125424
Plasmonic Nanocavity Induced Coupling and Boost of Dark Excitons in Monolayer WSe2at Room Temperature
Lo, T. W., Chen, X., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Q., Leung, C. W., Zayats, A. V. & Lei, D., 9 Mar 2022, In: Nano Letters. 22, 5, p. 1915-1921 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04360
Dual-mode independent detection of pressure and refractive index by miniature grating-coupled surface plasmon sensor
Ni, H., Zhang, L., Ping, A., Krasavin, A. V., Ali, H., Ni, B. & Chang, J., 14 Feb 2022, In: OPTICS EXPRESS. 30, 4, p. 5758-5768 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.446766
Atomically smooth single-crystalline platform for low-loss plasmonic nanocavities
Krasavin, A. & Zayats, A., 29 Jan 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Nano Letters. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Nonlocality-enabled pulse management in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials
Zayats, A., Stefaniuk, T., Nasir, M., Nicholls, L. & Cordova Castro, M., 5 Jan 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: ADVANCED MATERIALS. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Long-Range Directional Routing and Spatial Selection of High-Spin-Purity Valley Trion Emission in Monolayer WS2
Chen, P. G., Li, Z., Qi, Y., Lo, T. W., Wang, S., Jin, W., Wong, K. Y., Fan, S., Zayats, A. V. & Lei, D., 23 Nov 2021, In: ACS Nano. 15, 11, p. 18163-18171 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06955

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Seminars

The Light & Matter (L&M) seminars normally take place on Wednesdays at 14.00. All are welcome to attend.

Wheatstone Lecture Series

The Wheatstone Lecture has been hosted annually by the Department of Physics since 2013. Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (1802-75) was Professor of Experimental Philosophy at King's, and the first Professor in the Department from 1834 until his death in 1875. Polymath and self-taught, Wheatstone was a prolific inventor whose legacy includes the symphonium, the stereoscope, the Wheatstone Bridge and the development of the electric telegraph which revolutionised communications in the nineteenth century.

Wheatstone Lecture Series