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Engineering in Physics
Developing ultra-high resolution optical meta-surface sensors
Materials Science and Engineering


Controlling the properties of 2D materials by defect engineering


Nanowire photodetectors for photonic and quantum systems
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology


Controlling the properties of 2D materials by defect engineering


Nanowire lasers for applications in nanophotonics


Nanowire infrared avalanche photodetectors towards single photon detection
Professor Lan Fu, Dr Zhe (Rex) Li, Professor Chennupati Jagadish


Optical metamaterials: from science fiction to transformative optical technologies


Micro-ring lasers for integrated silicon photonics


Quantum-well nanowire light emitting devices
Professor Lan Fu, Dr Ziyuan Li, Professor Hoe Tan, Professor Chennupati Jagadish
Photonics, Lasers and Nonlinear Optics


Metasurface polarization optics and quantum photonics
Developing ultra-high resolution optical meta-surface sensors


Quantum photonics with nanostructured metasurfaces


Integrated quantum photonics
Prof Andrey Sukhorukov, Dr Jinyong Ma, Dr Jihua Zhang, Prof Dragomir Neshev


Nanowire lasers for applications in nanophotonics


Nanowire infrared avalanche photodetectors towards single photon detection
Professor Lan Fu, Dr Zhe (Rex) Li, Professor Chennupati Jagadish


Optical metamaterials: from science fiction to transformative optical technologies


Micro-ring lasers for integrated silicon photonics


Nanowire photodetectors for photonic and quantum systems


Synthetic multi-dimensional photonics


Quantum-well nanowire light emitting devices
Professor Lan Fu, Dr Ziyuan Li, Professor Hoe Tan, Professor Chennupati Jagadish


Optical nanoantennas
Quantum Science and Technology


Metasurface polarization optics and quantum photonics


Quantum photonics with nanostructured metasurfaces


Integrated quantum photonics
Prof Andrey Sukhorukov, Dr Jinyong Ma, Dr Jihua Zhang, Prof Dragomir Neshev


Synthetic multi-dimensional photonics
Theoretical Physics


Optical nanoantennas
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