azayats

Professor Anatoly V Zayats, FInstP, FOSA, FSPIE, FRSC
Head, Photonics and Nanotechnology
Director, London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies
Director, London Centre for Nanotechnology

Tel.: +44-20-7848 2477
Fax: +44-20-7848 2420
Email: a.zayats@kcl.ac.uk

Department of Physics
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom

Research Interests:

near-field optics; scanning probe microscopy; nanophotonics and plasmonics; metamaterials; nonlinear optics and spectroscopy; surface plasmons and polaritons; bio- and chemical sensing; nanostructured metals; optical properties of surfaces, thin films, semiconductors and low-dimensional structures

Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2006)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2008): for pioneering contributions in nano-optics and plasmonics
Fellow of SPIE (2012): for achievements in integrated plasmonics and nonlinear metamaterials
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)

Know plasmonics in 10 minutes (SPIE TV, 2012)

News

List of Publications

Nano-optics Lab

P&N Group

Physics @ King's

KCL

LCN

London-Light

1986 MSc with Distinction, Dept. of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR
1989 PhD in Physics (Solid State Physics),

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR (see also [non-canonical MIPT web-pages] )

1989-1997 Junior Research Scientist, Research Scientist (1990), Senior Research Scientist (1992), Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
1992-1994 Research Fellow, Institute of Physics,

University of Aalborg, Denmark.

1995-1997 Visiting Professor, University of Algarve, Portugal
1998-1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow,

University of Konstanz, Germany

1999-2005 Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics,

The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

1999-2007 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Physique,

l’Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

2005-2010 Chair in Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics,

The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

2008-2011 Visiting Professor, Department of Physics,

Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

2010-present Chair in Experimental Physics, Department of Physics,

King's College London, United Kingdom

Main review articles and books:

A. V. Zayats, I. I. Smolyaninov, "Near-field photonics: surface plasmon polaritons and localised surface plasmons," J. Opt. A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 5, 2003, pp. S16-S50. [on-line]
A. V. Zayats, I. I. Smolyaninov, A. A. Maradudin, "Nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rep., vol. 408, 2005, pp. 131-314. [on-line]
G. A. Wurtz, A. V. Zayats, "Nonlinear surface plasmon polaritonic crystals," Laser and Photon. Rev., vol. 2, 2008, pp. 125-135. [on-line]
D. Richards, A. V. Zayats, Eds., Nano-optics and Near-field Optical Microscopy (Artech, Boston, 2008). [look inside]
A. V. Zayats, I. I. Smolyaninov, A. A. Maradudin, Nano-optics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (Academic Press, New York, 2009). [more]
M. Kauranen, A. V. Zayats, "Nonlinear plasmonics," Nature Photonics, vol. 6, 2012, pp. 737-748. [on-line]
A. V. Zayats, S. A. Maier, Eds., Active Plasmonics and Tuneable Plasmonic Metamaterials (Wiley-Blackwell & Science-Wise, 2013). [look inside]