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News Flash:
Large internal and external projects & collaborations
Alumni
- Miguel Navarro-Cia, now UCL
- Ai Leen Koh, now Stanford
- Susannah Heck, now Oclaro
- Xiaofeng Li, now Professor at the Institute of Modern Optical Technologies, Soochow University, China,
CONGRATULATIONS!
- Hong Yoon, now Samsung Corning Precision Materials
Selected research topics:
Getting to know us:
I joined Imperial College in winter 2007 from the University of Bath, where I held a faculty position in Physics for the previous three years. Before that, I was lucky enough to live in California while doing my PhD in applied physics at Caltech. My life in science is easily summarized on paper (CV, list of publications), but apart from that I enjoy indie music, Latin American literature, and travelling.
At Imperial, I currently run a group of 26 people, a good mix of experimentalists and theoreticians, including two Marie Curie fellows, and a number of postdocs, PhD and Masters students. We are a very international mix. I am also one of the co-Directors of the College's new Center for Plasmonics and Metamaterials, a visiting professor at IMRE A*Star in Singapore, and a Coordination Board member of the new Central European Institute of Technology. Our research is currently funded to the tune of £10 million from a mix of sources from the UK, Europe, and the US, including a major award from the Leverhulme Trust for the embedding of emerging disciplines: Metamaterials and the control of electromagnetic fields
Research in our group centres on plasmonics - the exploration of light and light/matter interactions on the nanoscale - and on metamaterials - the creation of artificial m edia with optical properties not found in nature. Of particular interests are nanostructured m etallic systems, which allow the breaking of the diffraction barrier of conventional optics, opening up new possibilities over the control of light, as well as the creation of designer materials with fascinating electromagnetic properties such as negative refractive indices and tailored electric or magnetic resonances. Applications such as nanoscale optical wavegui des or highly integrated biological sensors are se t to revolutionize 21st century science an d technology in the coming decades, from optical data communication for high-speed information processing to medical diagnostics.
Research in this ar e a has accelerated at an immense rate in t he last couple of years, thanks to advances in computation, nanofabrication, and near-field optical characterization. Our research group operates at the forefront of plasmonics research, and we are collabo rating with a wide range of key groups both within Imperial College, the UK, and internationally. The highly international nature of the field is reflected by a number of yearly conference series in the Americas, E urope, and the Far East."
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If you are a fter an introduction into this exciting field of research, take a look at my introductory book "Plasmonics - Fundamentals and Applications", published by Springer in 2007.
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