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Reading the unreadable with metamaterials

Project overview

The aim of the proposal is the development of a high throughput, broadband method to access real-time information about the fine details of physical and biological objects. This will be achieved by transforming evanescent electromagnetic waves, the information carriers for small scale features, to free-space propagating waves that can be collected easily by standard optical techniques. The suggested metamaterial platform will impact most fields where fine-scale diagnostics are important (materials science, condensed matter physics, biology) and will also allow the recording and retrieval of encrypted information for which specially designed metamaterials will act as a unique decryption key.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Nikitas Papasimakis

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Nikitas

Email: N.Papasimakis@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

T.A. Raybould, V.A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, I. Kuprov, I.J. Youngs, W.T. Chen, D.P. Tsai & N.I. Zheludev, 2016, Physical Review B, 94(3), 1-5
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N. Papasimakis, V.A. Fedotov, V. Savinov, T.A. Raybould & N.I. Zheludev, 2016, Nature Materials, 15(3), 263-271
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T.A. Raybould, V. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, I. Youngs & N. Zheludev, 2016, Optics Express, 24(4), 3150-3161
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Vassili Fedotov, Nikitas Papasimakis, Nikolay I. Zheludev, Jan Wallauer, Markus Walther & Mauro Perino, 2015, Light: Science & Applications, 4(e306), 1-6
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