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 nanofabrication.

Key Publications:

• 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
• Visualization of Sub-atomic Movements in Nanostructures
  T. Liu, *J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev Nano Lett. 21 (2021) doi: link
• Giant nonlinearity of an optically reconfigurable plasmonic metamaterial
  J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, J. Zhang, and N. I. Zheludev 
  Adv. Mater. 28, 729-733 (2016) link
• 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:

    “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