Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials
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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Southampton a £6.2-million programme grant to establish a centre for Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials.
Metamaterials are manmade media with all sorts of unusual and useful functionalities that can be achieved by artificial structuring smaller than the length scale of light. This innovative and interdisciplinary research programme, which is funded for six years, aims to develop a new generation of switchable and active nanostructured photonic media and to establish Southampton a world-leading centre of research on Photonic Metamaterials. It is hosted by the Optoelectronics Research Centre and involves the university's Schools of Electronics & Computer Science, Physics & Astronomy, and Mathematics. [more]