Brief

Nanomechanics & Nanophotonics research group is led by Dr Jun-Yu Ou (Bruce Ou, 歐俊裕), an expert in nano-optomechanical metamaterials, AI-assisted optical metrology, and metalens.

Key Publications:

  • Near-infrared metalens empowered dual-mode high resolution and large FOV microscope
    C. Sun, H. Pi, K. S. Kiang,J. Yan* and J. Y. Ou*
    Adv. Opt. Mater. (2024) published online doi:10.1002/adom.202400512
  • Reconfigurable photonic platforms: feature issue introduction
    B. Gholipour, N. Youngblood, Q. Wang, P. C. Wu, P. Barclay, and J. Y. Ou,
    Opt. Mater. Express 14, 236-239 (2024) doi: 10.1364/OME.510620
  • Picophotonic localization metrology beyond thermal fluctuations
    T. Liu, C-H. Chi, J. Y. Ou, J. Xu, E. A. Chan, K. F. MacDonald and N. I. Zheludev
    Nature Mater. (2023) doi: 10.1038/s41563-023-01543-y 
  • Photonic metamaterial analogue of a continuous time crystal
    T. Liu, J. Y. Ou, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nature Phys. (2023) doi: 10.1038/s41567-023-02023-5 [Press coverage]
  • Optimization of metamaterials and metamaterial-microcavity based on deep neural networks
    G. Lan, Y. Wang, *J. Y. Ou
    Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 5137 (2022) doi:10.1039/d2na00592a
  • An electromechanically reconfigurable plasmonic metamaterial operating in the near-infrared
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, J. Zhang, and N. I. Zheludev 
    Nature Nanotech. 8, 252-255 (2013) 2018 Web of Science highly cited paper link

Besides scientific excellence, Dr Ou possesses expert knowledge in nanotechnology with 15 years of experience in a wide range of nanofabrication techniques including e-beam lithography, focused ion beam milling, and other advanced nanofabrication equipment.

Please contact Dr Ou (bruce.ou[AT]soton.ac.uk) if you are interested in collaborating or undertaking PhD study at the University of Southampton.

Dr Ou acknowledges the funding support provided by:

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    “When we have some control of the arrangement of things on a small scale, we will get an enormously greater range of possible properties that substances can have, and of different things that we can do.”

-Richard Feynman