Nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials

The capacity to fabricate structures on the nanoscale using top-down and bottom-up fabrication strategies has opened up unprecedented opportunities to control light. From being able to enhance and modify emission from fluorescent molecules and quantum dots through the the production of coloured surfaces using only metals, new applications in optical information processing, display technology and next generation sensors emerge.

Research in this theme is focussed on the development of novel nanoscale wavefront sensing elements for phase imaging, producing plasmonic waveguides and integrated detectors and demonstrating metasurfaces to replace bulky optical components with ultra-compact elements.

The group is part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS)

Research team

  • Professor Ann Roberts (theme contact)
  • Professor Tim Davis (Honorary Principal Fellow)
  • Dr Yang Xu (TMOS Research Fellow)
  • Dr Laura Ospina Roza (Biosciences)
  • Niken Priscilla (PhD student)
  • Shaban Sulejman (PhD student)
  • Lincoln Clark (PhD student)
  • Haiwei Wang (PhD student)
  • Gabriel Oyazo Ojeda (PhD student)

Collaborators