Research projects
Current funding
ERC, "Frontiers in nanophotonics: integrated plasmonic metamaterial devices (iPLASMM)"
EPSRC, "Reactive Plasmonics : optical control of electronic processes at interfaces for nanoscale physics, chemistry and metrology (RPLAS)"
EPSRC, "Active Plasmonics : electronic and all-optical control of photonic signals on sub-wavelength scales (APLAS)"
NSF/EPSRC, "Materials World Network: Understanding the optical response of designer epsilon-near-zero materials"
EC Erasmus Mundus Partnership NANOPHI : Europe/Asia-Pacific Exchange Programme in Nanophotonics
Past recent funding
EPSRC, "Design of plasmonic nanostructures for an enhanced control over their ultrafast nonlinear optical response"
US ARO, "Nonlocal plasmonic metamaterials for ultrafast and nonlinear optics"
Seagate Technology Inc. (USA/UK)
The Royal Society, IES "Aluminium plasmonics"
INTEL Inc. (USA/Ireland)
US ARO, "Collective nonlinearities in plasmonic metamaterials"
The Royal Society, IES "Silicon metamaterials"
EC FP7, STREP BONAS : Bomb factory detection by networks of advanced sensors
EC FP7, STREP PLAISIR : Plasmonic innovative sensing in the IR
The Royal Society, NIF P. Ginzburg "Quantum emitters in nano-plasmonic environment"
The Royal Society, NIF J. Zhang "Metamaterial analogue of electromagnetic induced transparency for biosensing"
EC COST action MP0803 Plasmonic components and devices
EPSRC,"Fabrication, characterisation and nanophotonic applications of plasmonic waveguides made of metallic nanorod arrays"
EPSRC, "Investigating the fabrication and dipole characteristics of complex ferroelectric nanoshapes"
US DoE Argonne National Lab, "Dynamics and nonlinear optical properties of active plasmonic nanostructured systems"
EC FP6, STREP PLASMOCOM
EC FP6, STREP PLEAS
EPSRC, "Surface plasmon devices for applications in communication and signal processing"
EC FP6, Network of Excellence on Plasmo-nano-devices
EC FP6, Network of Excellence PHOREMOST
The Royal Society, "Design and applications of plasmonics structures for biosensing and imaging"
US DoE Argonne National Lab, "Assemblies of Au nanorods for
the fabrication of solar cells: a step towards the integration of active
plasmonic nanodevices"
EPSRC, "NSF-EPSRC Materials Programme: Novel non-linear photonic metamaterials based on metallic nanostructures"
EC/INTAS, "Monolayered opalline superlattice: application to
nanotechnology of 2D ordered array of epitaxial nanodots and
metalattice conductors"
Invest Northern Ireland, "Nanotec Northern Ireland: Industrial Nanotechnology Centre"
EPSRC, "Towards plasmonics: active control of surface plasmon-polariton waves"
EPSRC, UK Network on Nano-optical Microscopy
Seagate Technology Inc. (USA/UK)
EPSRC, "Near-field second-harmonic imaging and diagnostics of advanced magnetic materials and devices"
EPSRC, "Optical manifestations of planar chirality"
EPSRC, "Near-field, second-harmonic optical microscopy of mesoscopic magnetic and ferroelectric structures"
The Royal Society, "Apertureless second-harmonic SNOM"