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Dr. Jun-Yu (Bruce) Ou wins QEP Doctoral Research Prize

Research in the metamaterials lab at Southampton.
Research in the metamaterials lab at Southampton.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jun-Yu (Bruce) Ou, winner of the 2015 Institute of Physics Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group (QEP) Doctoral Research Prize for his work on ‘Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials’. Bruce was supervised by Zepler Institute Head of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, Prof. Nikolay Zheludev and Dr. Eric Plum at Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials.

The award was made in recognition of his experimental work that has established a new research direction of growing international importance. By bringing together advanced nanofabrication, nano-mechanics and photonics, Bruce demonstrated the first practical solutions for dynamic control of metamaterial optical properties with high contrast and speed using electrical signals, thermal inputs and even light itself – a true technological breakthrough. You can find out more about this research, and see a photograph of a reconfigurable photonic metamaterial taken by Bruce, on our metamaterials case study.


Posted by rc2c12@sot on 19 May 2015.

The Zepler Institute is a community of researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Group, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group and Quantum Light and Matter Group