NanoPhotonics explores how new materials can be created, in which the interaction between light and matter is fundamentally altered to produce fascinating and useful new effects.
Why we do it
Assembling nano-chunks of matter into sophisticated structures creates nano-materials (or ‘meta-materials’) with emergent properties not found in their constituents, but is a major technological challenge. One of our goals is moving from expensive fabrication of devices to elegant nano-assembly in which materials ‘build themselves’. This convergence of NanoScience/NanoTechnology with Photonics is highly interdisciplinary across all Physical Sciences and beyond, including NanoScience, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Healthcare, Materials as well as Engineering.
Join us!
We are always looking for talented researchers to join our research teams: see Positions
The Cambridge NanoPhotonics Centre was set up in 2007 with the arrival of Professor Jeremy J. Baumberg, and has funding from the UK EPSRC, ERC and EU, as well as industrial partners and collaborators. We have recently been funded by the EPSRC for a new Ubiquitous Optical Healthcare Technologies centre with the UK AI Alan Turing Institute and others. We combine materials in unusual ways, making architectures that can confine light to sizes below a single atom, as well as sense single molecules in-situ. We also support the Nano Doctoral Training Centre across the University of Cambridge.
Our core values
Strong creative science in interdisciplinary areas demands close interaction of many team members. We believe that the best science is done from a position of openness and sharing, mutual support, and care for our differences. Also it is a lot of fun to work together
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