Experimental Nanophotonics Group
News
21/02/2024
Hammad passed his PhD thesis viva. Congratulations!
19/02/2024
Our research article "Metasurface for engineering superimposed Ince-Gaussian beams" was published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
16/02/2024
Miss Rong Yan joined our group as a visiting student. She will stay in our group for one year. Welcome aboard!
12/02/2024
Our research article "Metasurface for engineering superimposed Ince-Gaussian beams" was accepted by Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
07/01/2024
Our research article "Roadmap on electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces" was accepted by Journal of Physics: Photonics. Congratulations!
04/01/2024
Our research article "Spin-Selective Angular Dispersion Control in Dielectric Metasurfaces for Multichannel Meta-Holographic Displays" was accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations!
22/11/2023
Our research article "Longitudinally variable 3D optical polarization structures" was published in Science Advances. Congratulations!
02/11/2023
Our alumnus Dr Yuttana Intaravanne was selected as World's Top 2% Scientists in 2023 named by Stanford University. Well done, Yuttana. Our big congratulations!
20/10/2023
Our research article "Longitudinally variable 3D optical polarization structures" was accepted by Science Advances. Congratulations!
18/09/2023
PhD student Mr Tarik Sipahi joined our group. Welcome aboard!
06/09/2023
Hammad was awarded the EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prize for his achievement during the second year. Well done, Hammad. Congratulations!
20/07/2023
Our Ph.D. student, Mr. Hammad Ahmed has been chosen as the winner of the 2023 EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prize. Congratulations!
14/07/2023
Our paper entitled 'Compact multifoci metalens spectrometer' is selected by Light: Science & Applications (LSA) as the Top Downloaded Paper in June 2023. Congratulations!
03/07/2023
Our research article "Dynamic control of hybrid grafted perfect vector vortex beams" was published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
08/06/2023
Our research paper "Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer" became a featured article on LSA page https://www.nature.com/lsa/ Congratulations!
23/05/2023
Our research article "Dynamic Control of Hybrid Grafted Perfect Vector Vortex Beams" was accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations!
19/05/2023
Our research article "Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface" was accepted by Communications Physics. Congratulations!
08/05/2023
Our research article "Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer" was featured in news articles. Congratulations!
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-compact-high-resolution-spectrometer-flat-optics.html
https://bioengineer.org/compact-high-resolution-spectrometer-with-flat-optics/
07/05/2023
Our research article "Color-Selective Three-Dimensional Polarization Structures" was featured in a news article. Congratulations!
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-color-selective-three-dimensional-polarization.html
04/05/2023
Our research article "Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer" was published on nature light: science & applications. Congratulations!
28/04/2023
Our research article "Creating Wavelength‐Selective Polarization Digital Numbers" was published on Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
13/04/2023
Our research article "Design Strategies and Applications of Dimensional Optical Field Manipulation Based on Metasurfaces" was published on Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
10/04/2023
Our research article "Design Strategies and Applications of Dimensional Optical Field Manipulation Based on Metasurfaces" was accepted by Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
03/04/2023
Our research article "Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer" was accepted by Light: Science & Applications. Congratulations!
27/03/2023
Guanchao Wang joined our group as an Academic visitor. He will stay in our group for one year. Welcome aboard!
17/03/2023
Our research article "Creating Wavelength-Selective Polarization Digital Numbers" was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
27/02/2023
Our research article "Polarization-multiplexed metaholograms with erasable functionality" was accepted by Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Congratulations!
15/02/2023
Our research article "Metasurface-Enabled 3-in-1 Microscopy" was published on ACS Photonics. Congratulations!
13/01/2023
Our research article "Metasurface enabled 3-in-1 microscopy" was accepted by ACS Photonics. Congratulations!
08/11/2022
Our research paper "Color Selective Three-Dimensional Polarization Structures" became a featured article on LSA page (https://www.nature.com/lsa/ ). Congratulations!
17/10/2022
Our research article "Color-Selective Three-Dimensional Polarization Structures" was published on Light: Science & Applications (LSA). Congratulations!
12/09/2022
Dr Yan Li joined our group as an Academic visitor. She will stay in our group for one year. Welcome aboard!
17/08/2022
Our research article "Color-Selective Three-Dimensional Polarization Structures" was accepted by Light: Science & Applications. Congratulations!
27/07/2022
Our research article "Multichannel Superposition of Grafted Perfect Vortex Beams" was published on Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
24/07/2022
Dr Ansari’s manuscript on "Single-Step Fabricable Flexible Metadisplays for Sensitive Chemical/Biomedical Packaging Security" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations!
24/05/2022
Congratulations – Dr. Chen is selected as outstanding reviewer in 2021 for Light: Science & Applications (LSA).
21/05/2022
Our manuscript on "Multichannel Superposition of Grafted Perfect Vortex Beams" was accepted by Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
12/05/2022
Yuttana has passed his PhD viva. Congratulations!
30/03/2022
Our manuscript on "Liquid Crystal Integrated Metasurfaces for Interactive Meta-Displays" was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
29/03/2022
Our research Article "Creating Composite Vortex Beams with a Single Geometric Metasurface" was published on Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
09/03/2022
Our manuscript on "Creating Composite Vortex Beams with a Single Geometric Metasurface" was accepted by Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
10/02/2022
Our alumni Prof. Dandan Wen was awarded a prestigious Overseas Excellent Youth Grant. Well done, Dandan! Dandan obtained his PhD from our group in 2017. Currently he is a professor at School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University. Congratulations!
02/02/2022
Congratulations – Dr. Chen is selected as outstanding associate editor in 2021 for Frontiers in Nanotechnology.
01/02/2022
Our collaboration work with Dr Ruoxing Wang on "Reconstructing subwavelength resolution terahertz holographic images" was accepted by Optics Express. Congratulations!
01/02/2022
Dr Muhammad Afnan Ansar joined our group as a Research Associate. He will work on flat optics and ultrathin optical devices. Welcome aboard!
12/01/2022
Jemma Callaghan has been asked to be a panellist for CUWiP (Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics) in 2022. Well done, Jemma! https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/equality/cuwip
26/12/2021
Our review paper on generation and manipulation of optical vortex beams with optical metasurfaces was accepted by Nanophotonics. Congratulations!
19/11/2021
Dr Chen attended International Nanophotonics and Nanoenergy Conference and gave a plenary talk on “Optical metasurfaces for polarization structure engineering”.
06/09/2021
Miss Jemma Callaghan joined our group as a new EngD student. In collaboration with STMicroelectronics, she will concentrate on active metasurfaces. Welcome aboard!
23/07/2021
Dr Chen attended the META'21, the 11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics and chaired the special session on “Metasurface for information processing” with Prof. Jensen Li from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
24/06/2021
The Leverhulme Trust Board agreed to offer Dr Chen a research grant over 36 months for "Creating 3D polarization structures with flat optics". Congratulations!
19/05/2021
Dr Chen was invited to be a part of the Conference Committee and Invited Forum for the upcoming meeting “Metamaterials and Plasmonics World Forum” to be held during May 23-25, 2022 in London, UK.
For further information and conference updates, please visit the conference website: https://www.continuumforums.com/metamaterials-plasmonics-world-forum
26/02/2021
Dr Chen was invited as a Plenary Speaker at the International Meet on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics (METAMEET2022), to be held during March 28-30, 2022 in Dubai, UAE. http://albedomeetings.com/metameet
09/02/2021
Our manuscript on metalens for polarization manipulation was accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations!
10/02/2021
Mr Hammad Ahmed arrived in Edinburgh. Welcome!
01/01/2021
Mr Hammad Ahmed joined our group as a new PhD student. Welcome aboard!
19/11/2020
Dr. Yang Ming from Changshu Institute of Technology joined our group. Dr. Ming will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
23/09/2020
Our manuscript on "Phase Manipulation Based Polarization Profile Realization and Hybrid Holograms Using Geometric Metasurfaces" was accepted by Advanced Photonics Research. Congratulations!
05/08/2020
Our manuscript on "Optical metasurfaces for generation and superposition of optical ring vortex beams" was accepted by Laser & Photonics Reviews. Congratulations!
15/06/2020
Our manuscript on "Polarization detection using light's orbital angular momentum" was accepted by Advanced Optics Materials. Congratulations!
26/05/2020
Our manuscript on "Multi-foci metalens for terahertz polarization detection" was accepted by Optics Letters. Congratulations!
17/12/2019
Our proposal submitted to Heriot-Watt - Renishaw Strategic Alliance was funded. Congratulations!
12/12/2019
Dr Chen attended the PhD viva at Bangor University. Congratulations to James Monks!
09/12/2019
Prof. Songtao Li from North China Electric Power University joined our group. Prof.Li will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
12/11/2019
Dr Chen visited the Southern University of Science and Technology and gave a talk on ultrathin metasurface devices.
10/11/2019
Dr Chen was invited to attend the Quantum Information Technology Forum held in Chongqing, China and gave keynote talks on 10th November 2019. This forum was hosted by Chongqing Municipal Government and Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications (CUPT).
08/10/2019
Prof. Jensen Li from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Dr. Xianfeng Chen from Bangor University visited our group.
10/09/2019
Our collaboration work with University of Shanghai for Science and Technology on "Multi-foci metalens with polarization-rotated focal points" was accepted by Laser Photonics Reviews. Congratulations!
09/09/2019
Dr Chen attended the SPIE Security + Defence 2019 in Strasbourg, France and gave invited talk entitled "Flat optics and ultrathin optical devices with unusual functionalities".
03/09/2019
Mr Ruoxing Wang from Harbin Engineering University joined our group. Ruoxing will work here as a visiting PhD student for one year. Welcome aboard!
27/08/2019
Our work on "Multichannel Metasurfaces for Anti-counterfeiting" was accepted by Physical Review Applied. Congratulations!
13/08/2019
Dr Chen visited STMicroelectronics R&D Ltd in Edinburgh and discussed the future collaboration with Dr James Downing.
01/08/2019
Our collaboration with on "Nonlinear Vectorial Metasurface for Optical Encryption" was accepted by Physical Review Applied. Congratulations!
31/07/2019
Mr Haolin Liao from Sun Yat-sen University joined our group for a Summer project. Welcome aboard!
23/07/2019
Dr Chen and Yuttana attended the META 2019, the 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics and gave two invited talks on "Metasurface Based Arbitrary Polarization Control and Its Applications" and "Dielectric Metasurfaces for Ultrathin Half Waveplates".
16/07/2016
Our work on "Metasurface hologram for polarization measurement" was accepted by Optics Letters. Congratulations!
10/06/2019
Our collaboration work with Holoxica Ltd. on "Volumetric 3D display in real space using a diffractive lens, fast projector and polychromatic light source" was accepted by Optics Letters. Congratulations!
22/05/2019
Dr Chen attended the UK-ISRAEL Metamaterials Workshop in London.
08/04/2019
Our collaboration work with Nankai University was accepted by Optics Express. The title of the manuscript is "Metasurface generated polarization insensitive Fano resonance for highperformance refractive index sensing ". Congratulations!
18/04/2019
Dr Sebastian Schulz from University of St Andrews visited our group. Welcome!
16/04/2019
Prof. Jin Han from Kunming University of Science and Technology joined our group. Prof. Han will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
19/03/2019
Dr Chen attended the Metamaterials Workshop in Birmingham.
07/02/2019
Prof. Guixin Li from Southern University of Science and Technology and Dr Shumei Chen from University of Birmingham visited our institute. Welcome!
29/01/2019
Dr Aning Ma from Lanzhou University joined our group. Dr. Ma will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
24/10/2018
Prof. Anatoly Zayats from King's College London visited our group.
01/10/2018
Mr Yuttana Intaravanne joined our group as a new PhD student. Welcome aboard!
27/08/2018
Our collaboration work with Prof. Shuqi Chen's group was accepted by Laser Photonics Review. The title of the manuscript is "Triple the Capacity of Optical Vortices by Nonlinear Metasurface". Congratulations!
21/08/2018
Prof. Seokwoo Jeon visited our group and gave a talk on "Large-Area, Optical 3D Nanopatterning for Functional Nanomaterials". Prof. Jeon is a Chair Professor, Director of Advanced MEMS GC Center for Drug Detection, Advanced Battery Center, KI for the Nano Century, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea.
17/08/2018
Our manuscript entitled "Optical metasurface generated vector beam for anti-counterfeiting" was accepted by Physical Review Applied. Congratulations!
22/07/2018
Prof. Shuqi Chen and Prof. Hua Cheng visited our group and discussed the future collaboration work. Our collaboration work has been published on ACS Photonics and Advanced Optical Materials in 2018.
24/06/2018
Dr Chen attended META'18, the 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics at Marseille, France and gave two invited talks.
28/05/2018
Our Invited Progress Report "Geometric Metasurfaces for Ultrathin Optical Devices" was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
15/05/2018
Mr Yuttana Intaravanne joined our group as a MSc Summer project student. Welcome aboard!
15/05/2018
Mr Scott Hermon and Mr Fillmon Kubrom joined our group as Summer project students. Scott's project was funded by Carnegie Trust. Welcome aboard!
19/04/2018
Dandan Wen obtained 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. Congratulations Dandan!
20/02/2018
Our manuscript entitled "Polarization encoded color image embedded in a dielectric metasurface" was accepted by Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
17/10/2017
Both Dandan Wen and Fuyong Yue won Postgraduate Research Thesis Prize at Heriot-Watt University. Congratulations! Well done!
08/08/2017
Our manuscript entitled "High-resolution grayscale image hidden in a laser beam" was accepted by Light: Science and Applications.
03/08/2017
Our manuscript entitled "Multi-channel metasurface for simultaneous control of holograms and twisted light beams" was accepted by ACS Photonics.
25/07/2017
Dr Chen attended META'17, the 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics in Incheon, South Korea and gave an invited talk entitled "Metasurface for polarization-controllable multichannel superpositions of orbital angular momentum states".
27/06/2017
Our manuscript entitled "Plasmonic metasurface for optical rotation" was accepted by Applied Physics Letters.
29/05/2017
Dr Chen visited Prof. Rebecca Cheung's group in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and discussed the future collaboration on configurable metasurface devices.
22/05/2017
In collaboration with University of St Andrews, our work on flexible metasurface hologram was accepted by Scientific Reports.
12/05/2017
Prof. Nikolay I. Zheludev from University of Southampton visited our group.
05/05/2017
Congratulations to Dandan Wen on the successful viva! Well done, Dandan! Dr Javid Khan from Holoxica Ltd visited our group and discussed the Christopher's project details with Dr Chen.
01/05/2017
Supported by the funding for the Early Career Researcher Exchange Program, Fuyong paid a visit to University of Paderbornl. He will stay in Prof. Thomas Zentgraf's group for one month.
26/04/2017
Dr Chen paid a visit to University of Cardiff and gave a seminar talk on ultrathin metasurface devices for visible light in School of Physics and Astronomy.
12/04/2017
Our EPSRC Strategic Equipment proposal (PI: Brian D. Gerardot) has been assessed through the EPSRC peer review process and has been recommended for funding. This grant means that Direct Write Laser for fabrication of large scale but bespoke 2D photonic devices with novel functionalities, an electron beam evaporator for deposition of high-quality metals and dielectrics with nanometre precision, and a spectroscopic imaging ellipsometer for surface and materials metrology will be purchased and strengthen our current nanofabrication capability.
13/03/2017
Dandan attended the Symposium on Electromagnetic Metasurfaces, 13-16 March 2017.
10/03/2017
Dr Alasdair Clark from University of Glasgow visited our group and discussed the future collaboration with Dr Chen.
01/03/2017
Dandan and Fuyong gave a talk entitled "Nanorod structures for optical devices with unusual properties" to the academic staff and students at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences the school.
01/02/2017
The EngD student Mr Christopher Blackwell joined our group. Dr Javid Khan (Holoxica Ltd) is his industrial supervisor. Welcome aboard!
23/12/2016
Our manuscript entitled "Multichannel polarization-controllable superpositions of orbital angular momentum states" was accepted by Advanced Materials.
10/12/2016
Prof. Zhengren Zhang from from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, joined our group. Prof. Zhang will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
29/11/2016
Fuyong's application for funding for the Early Career Researcher Exchange Program to University of Paderborn, Germany has been successful. He will stay in Prof. Thomas Zentgraf's group for one month in May 2017. Congratulations!
15/11/2016
Dr Chen was invited as one of guest editors for the special session of Metasurface for Journal of Physics D. The other two guest editors are Prof. Thomas Zentgraf from University of Paderborn and Prof. Zhongyi Guo from Hefei University of Technology.
28/09/2016
Dandan was awarded one of the EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prizes for his achievements during the second year. Congratulations!
21/09/2016
Project student Ruairidh Mallows joined our group. Welcome aboard!
13/09/2016
Dandan was selected to attend the Symposium on Electromagnetic Metasurfaces, 13-16 March 2017. The meeting will be held at The Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere and the Funds will pay full accommodation charges and UK rail fares. There will be just 20 participants, 10 of whom are experts in the field. This forum provides an excellent opportunity for the junior speakers to meet leaders in the field on an informal basis and to discuss their current and future work. Well done, Dandan!
11/09/2016
Prof. Thorsten Ackemann from University of Strathclyde visited our group and discussed the future collaboration with Dr Chen.
25/08/2016
Prof. Huigang Liu from Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Nankai University, joined our group. Prof. Liu will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
18/08/2016
Prof. Xiaofei Zang from Shanghai Key Lab of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, joined our group. Prof. Zang will work here as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome aboard!
11/08/2016
Dr Chen attended the International Conference on Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2016 in Shanghai and gave an invited talk entitled "Unusual Ultrathin Optical Devices: Metasurfaces Make Them Practical".
25/07/2016
Dr Chen and Dr Jensen Li (University of Birmingham) chaired a special session on "Metasurface and its application in optical devices" on META2016 in Malaga, Spain. Dr Chen also gave an invited talk on "Metasurface for helicity multiplexed broadband holograms".
25/07/2016
Fuyong attended the META2016 in Malaga, Spain and presented our work on the conference.
20/07/2016
Our manuscript entitled "Vector vortex beam generation with a single plasmonic metasuface" was accepted by ACS Photonics.
07/07/2016
The Contribution Pay Board of Heriot-Watt University warded Dr Chen a contribution point since his significant outcomes and achievements that are well beyond what is expected of the role.
04/07/2016
Dr Felix Holzner and Dr Tero Kulmala from SwissLitho AG in Switzerland visited our group and gave a talk on thermal scanning probe lithography for novel nanophotonics and nanoelectronics.
29/06/2016
Dr Bin-zhi Qian from University of Edinburgh visited our group and gave an invited talk on macrophages in cancer metastasis and drug resistance.
20/06/2016
Students in the Higher Physics from Armadale Academy visited our lab.
01/06/2016
Summer project students Lewis Mitchell, Declan Cotter and Robert White joined our group. Welcome aboard!
28/05/2016
Congratulations to Dandan and his wife on the birth of their baby boy Zhaoqian!
04/06/2016
Dr Chen and Fuyong attended the Principal's garden party and demonstrated our nanodevices to the public.
25/05/2015
Dr Chen and Fuyong attended the SUPA Annual Gathering 2016 in the University of Strathclyde and experimentally demonstrated nanodevices to the public.
23/05/2016
Our manuscript entitled 'Multifunctional metasurface lens for imaging and Fourier transform' was accepted by Scientific Reports.
17/05/2015
Congratulations to Fuyong on winning the Santander Staff and Students Mobility grant to attend the Graphene NOWNANO Summer Conference in Manchester. Well done Fuyong!
15/04/2016
Dr. Chen was awarded an EPSRC IAA grant to explore the application of metasurface holograms in anti-counterfeiting.
18/03/2016
PhD students from the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences had a lab tour in our group. Dr. Chen introduced our current research. Dandan and Fuyong shared their new research results with them.
16/03/2016
Prof. Thomas Krauss from University of York visited our lab.
15/03/2016
Prof. Vladimir Shalaev from Purdue University and Dr Andrea Di Falco from University of St. Andrews visited our group.
26/02/2016
Dr Chen visited Prof. David Cumming's group and discussed the future collaboration with his group.
27/01/2016
Prof. Kai Bongs from University of Birmingham visited our group.
13/01/2016
Dandan and Fuyong gave a talk entitled "Flat optics: Metasurfaces make it practical" to the academic staff and students in the school.
25/11/2015
Dr Jensen Li from University of Birmingham paid a visit to our institute and gave an invited talk in our school. He also visited our group and discussed future collaboration with Dr Chen.
16/12/2015
Prof. David Cumming from University of Glasgow visited our group and discussed future collaboration with Dr Chen.
7/12/2015
Dandan attended the Exeter Microwave Metamaterials Meeting.
02/12/2015
Dr Chen, Dandan and Fuyong attended the Closing Event of the UN International Year of Light in Scotland and experimentally demonstrated nanohologram to the audience.
12/11/2015
Dr Chen visited University of Surrey and gave an invited seminar talk on "Optical metasurface and its application in ultrathin optical devices".
05/11/2015
Prof. Qin Chen from Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences paid a visit to our group and gave an invited seminar talk.
19/10/2015
Our manuscript entitled "Metasurface device with helicity-dependent functionality" was accepted for publication in Advanced Optical Materials.
14/10/2015
Group Project Students Alexander Pickston, Jacob Ingram and Ieuan Webb joined our group. Welcome on board!
21/09/2015
4th year project students Mr Silas Fleming and Mr Mark A Rennie joined our group. Welcome on board!
10/09/2015
Dr Chen attended the metamaterials workshop in University of Birmingham and gave a talk.
07/09/2015
Dr Chen attended Metamaterials2015 in Oxford.
02/09/2015
Dr Chen paid a visit to Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre & MRC University of Edinburgh Centre for Reproductive Health and gave an invited seminar talk.
04/08/2015
Dr Chen and Fuyong paid a visit to Holoxica Ltd. and discussed with Dr Khan about future collaboration.
30/07/2015
Our manuscript entitled "Helicity multiplexed broadband metasurface holograms" was accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
17/07/2015
Dr Chen visited Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian and gave an invited seminar talk.
13/07/2015
Dr Chen visited Capital Normal University in Beijing and gave an invited seminar talk.
07/07/2015
Dandan gave an invited talk on PIERS conference in Prague.
06/07/2015
Dr Chen gave an invited talk on PIERS conference in Prague.
05/07/2015
Dr Chen, Dandan and Fuyong attended the International Conference on Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2015 in Prague.
29/05/2015
Dr Javid Khan from Holoxica Ltd visited our group and discussed future collaboration with Dr Chen.
20/05/2015
Fuyong passed the first year review. Congratulations!
10/04/2015
Our work on longitudinal multi-foci metalens was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
06/04/2015
Our recent work on characterization of the polarization state of light was accepted by Optics Express.
23/03/2015
Dr Chen's proposal on ultrathin optical devices was funded by Renishaw-Heriot Watt Strategic Alliance.
11/02/2015
Dandan passed the first year's review. Congratulations!
13/11/2014
Dr Chen visited Capital Normal University and gave an invited talk in the morning. In the afternoon of the same day, he paid a visit to Beijing Institute of Technology and discussed about the future collaboration with Dr Xiaowei Li and Dr Lingling Huang.
07/11/2014
Dr Chen gave an invited talk in Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, and discussed about the future collaboration with Prof. Qin Chen.
03/11/2014
Dr Chen visited School of Physics, Shandong University and gave an invited talk.
29/10/2014
Dr Chen attended the BIT's 4th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & Technology in Qingdao, China and gave an invited talk.
09/09/2014
Dr Chen and Dr Stefan M. Webb from SwissLitho had a Skype meeting regarding the future collaboration. Dr Webb made a structure of the logo of Heriot-Watt by the using NanoFrazor. The resolution can be as high as 50 nm.
25/08/2014
Dr Chen visited the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM). Dr Steve Hankin introduced the nanotechnology research in IOM and exchanged ideas with Dr Chen regarding the future collaboration.
05/08/2014
Prof. Nick Weston and Mr Marcus Ardron from Renishaw plc Edinburgh visited our group. Dr Chen introduced our research and discussed the future collaboration on ultrathin optical devices with Prof. Weston. Renishaw will offer its advice on applications and needs for this technology, the use of its facilities to assess prototypes, and associated staff time.
29/07/2014
Dr Chen's EPSRC Grant Proposal (Metasurface for ultrathin planar optical devices with unusual functionalities) was assessed through the peer review process and recommended for funding.
26/07/2014
Prof. Ming Chen from Gulin University of Electronic Technology joined our group. Prof. Chen will stay here for one year. Welcome aboard!
29/06/2014
PhD student Mr Fuyong Yue joined our group. Welcome aboard!
02/06/2014
Our paper on ultrathin laser beam shaper was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
10/03/2014
PhD student Mr Dandan Wen joined our group. Welcome aboard!
21/11/2013
Our research "Three-dimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface" was reported by nanotechweb.org (http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/55432)
15/11/2013
Our work on 3D optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface was published on Nature Communications.
01/08/2013
Dr Chen joined Heriot-Watt University.