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Research & Innovation

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

Members

Wayne Dickson

Senior Lecturer

Mark Green

Professor

Jack Kingsley-Smith

PhD Student

Samjid Mannan

Professor

James Millen

Lecturer

Aliaksandra Rakovich

Aliaksandra Rakovich

Research Fellow

David Richards

Vice-Dean Research

Francisco Rodríguez Fortuño

Francisco Rodríguez Fortuño

Senior Lecturer

Amelle Zaïr

Lecturer

Anatoly Zayats

Professor

3D full-colour image projection based on reflective metasurfaces under incoherent illumination
Roth, D., Jin, M., Minovich, A., Liu, S., Li, G. & Zayats, A., 28 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Nano Letters. Research output: Contribution to journal - Letter
Evanescent Gravitational Waves
Golat, S., Lim, E. & Rodriguez Fortuno, F., 31 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Physical Review D. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
Optoelectronic Synapses Based on Hot-Electron-Induced Chemical Processes
Wang, P., Nasir, M., Krasavin, A., Dickson, W. & Zayats, A., 11 Mar 2020, In : Nano Letters. 20, 3, p. 1536-1541 6 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Letter. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03871
Nonlinear Goniometry by Second-Harmonic Generation in AlGaAs Nanoantennas
Carletti, L., Marino, G., Ghirardini, L., Gili, V. F., Rocco, D., Favero, I., Locatelli, A., Zayats, A. V., Celebrano, M., Finazzi, M., Leo, G., De Angelis, C. & Neshev, D. N., 21 Nov 2018, In : ACS Photonics. 5, 11, p. 4386-4392 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00810
Optomechanics with levitated particles
Millen, J., Monteiro, T. S., Pettit, R. & Vamivakas, A. N., 1 Feb 2020, In : Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain). 83, 2, 1 p., 026401. Research output: Contribution to journal - Review article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/ab6100
Optics of metallic nanostructures
Wurtz, G. A., Pollard, R. J., Dickson, W. & Zayats, A. V., 1 Jan 2019, Comprehensive Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Elsevier, Vol. 1-5. p. 67-116 50 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding - Chapter. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.10097-9
Tunneling-induced broadband and tunable optical emission from plasmonic nanorod metamaterials: Tunneling-induced broadband and tunable optical emission from plasmonic nanorod metamaterials
Krasavin, A., Wang, P., Nasir, M. E., Jiang, Y. & Zayats, A., 23 Jan 2020, In : Nanophotonics. 9, 2, p. 427-434 8 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0411
Nanoparticle-based metasurfaces for angular independent spectral filtering applications
Lotti, F., Mirzaei, A., Miroschnichenko, A. E. & Zayats, A., 7 Dec 2019, In : Journal of Applied Physics. 126, 21, p. 213101-1 213101 p., 213101. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108578
Conjugated polymers as nanoparticle probes for fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging
Fedatto Abelha, T., Dreiss, C. A., Green, M. & Dailey, L. A., 6 Jan 2020, In : Journal of materials chemistry b. 8, 4, p. 592-606 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Review article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TB02582K
Strong structural nonlinearity from plasmonic metamaterials in the infrared
Wells, B. M., Bykov, A. Y., Marino, G., Nasir, M. E., Zayats, A. V. & Podolskiy, V. A., 1 Jan 2019, Nonlinear Optics, NLO 2019. OSA - The Optical Society, Vol. Part F134-NLO 2019. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding - Conference paper

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Seminars

The P&N seminars normally take place on Wednesdays at 14.00. All are welcome to attend.

Our partners

Major collaborations include:

London Centre for Nanotechnology