Grant number: CE200100010 | Funding period: 2020 - 2027
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S Arslan, SB Sulejman, S Klein, J Haehner, J Schwab, D Ludescher, L Wesemann, A Roberts, H Giessen, M Hentschel
2026-04-13
Polarization is a key element in the design of nanophotonic devices, such as metasurfaces. It can be used as a parameter to change..
B Whitefield, HZJ Zeng, J Liddle-Wesolowski, IO Robertson, Á Ganyecz, V Ivády, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, M Toth, JP Tetienne, I Aharonovich, M Kianinia
2026-03-01
Electron spins coupled with optical transitions in solids stand out as a promising platform for developing spin-based quantum tech..
I Aharonovich, KB Crozier, D Neshev
Integrated quantum photonics has become a burgeoning field of research that encompasses quantum light sources, nonlinear materials..
B Whitefield, I Zhigulin, NP Sloane, JP Tetienne, I Aharonovich, M Kianinia
2026-02-24
Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that exhibit optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) signatures have recent..
SC Scholten, J Iwański, K Xing, J Binder, AK Dąbrowska, HH Tan, TS Cheng, J Bradford, CJ Mellor, PH Beton, SV Novikov, S Krotkus, J Mischke, E Yengel, A Henning, S Pasko, A Wysmołek, JP Tetienne
2025-12-31
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been shown to host native defects exhibiting optically detected magnetic resonance (ODM..
IO Robertson, B Whitefield, SC Scholten, P Singh, AJ Healey, P Reineck, M Kianinia, G Barcza, V Ivády, DA Broadway, I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne
2025-12-01
Bright point-defect emitters in hexagonal boron nitride have potential applications in quantum sensing and other technologies. How..
M Setareh, SS Mousavi Khaleghi, JA Rodrigo, KB Crozier
Helix-shaped polymorphic beams and solenoid ones are non-diffracting beams generated by the superposition of Bessel beams of speci..
J Ma, KB Crozier, AA Sukhorukov
The generation of optical vortices in compact systems and across different spectral regions can open new horizons for their applic..
J Ma, J Ren, J Zhang, J Meng, C McManus-Barrett, KB Crozier, AA Sukhorukov
Nonlinear metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness were recently established as versatile platforms for the enhanced and tailorab..
BJ Russell, S Balendhran, J Meng, KB Crozier
2025-11-06
There is a need for high performance and compact mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging and spectroscopy systems for the reliable opti..
L Clark, A Roberts, L Wesemann
2025-10-01
Metasurfaces are emerging as a paradigm for performing all-optical, energy efficient analog computing and image processing in an u..
D Ludescher, L Wesemann, J Schwab, J Karst, SB Sulejman, M Ubl, BO Clarke, A Roberts, H Giessen, M Hentschel
Micro- and nanoplastic particles are ubiquitous environmental pollutants, threatening human health, aquatic and soil ecosystems. T..
H Liu, A Barlow, A Corletto, CR Hall, J Bullock, S Tang, S Balendhran, SSM Khaleghi, S Rubanov, TA Smith, Y Dan, K Crozier
2025-09-23
Black phosphorus (BP) is an important mid-infrared semiconductor, having a direct bandgap from monolayer (≈1.7 eV) to bulk (≈0.31 ..
P Rufangura, Y Cui, H Liu, JD Carlstrom, K Crozier, ML Brongersma, Y Yang, F Iacopi
2025-08-01
Traditional thermal emitters are characterized by an incoherent broadband emission spectrum. However, narrowband coherent thermal ..
Y Xu, Z Chen, L Sun, JS Laird, B Liu, SP Russo, J Lin, KP Ghiggino, TA Smith
2025-07-22
In this paper, the intentional control of morphology and photophysical properties of a conjugated polydiarylfluorene, PODPF, in th..
B Whitefield, M Toth, I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne, M Kianinia
2025-04-01
Optically active spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as compelling quantum sensors hosted by a two..
SS Mousavi Khaleghi, J Wei, Y Liu, Y Wang, Z Fan, K Li, J Chen, R Kudrawiec, R Yang, KB Crozier, Y Dan
Photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) atomically thin semiconductors suffer from low light absorption, limiting their poten..
P Singh, IO Robertson, SC Scholten, AJ Healey, H Abe, T Ohshima, HH Tan, M Kianinia, I Aharonovich, DA Broadway, P Reineck, JP Tetienne
2025-03-26
Optically addressable solid-state spins are an important platform for practical quantum technologies. Van der Waals material hexag..
SB Sulejman, L Wesemann, M McCormack, J Meng, JA Hutchison, N Priscilla, G McColl, K Read, W Sim, AA Sukhorukov, KB Crozier, A Roberts
2025-03-19
Different imaging modalities are used to visualize the diverse information carried in an optical field. Two prominent non-computat..
SS Mousavi Khaleghi, D Wen, J Cadusch, KB Crozier
2025-02-03
Multicolor holograms encoded into color print images are structures that generate holographic images when illuminated with lasers,..
SK Nath, N Syed, W Pan, Y Yu, D Liu, MP Nielsen, J Yuwono, PV Kumar, Y Zhu, DL Cortie, CK Nguyen, L Fu, A Roberts, L Faraone, NJ Ekins-Daukes, W Lei
2025-01-01
Ultra-thin 2D materials have gain significant attention for making next-generation optoelectronic devices. Here, a large-area hete..
J Meng, GA Umana-Membreno, M Martyniuk, L Faraone, KB Crozier
We present a novel mid-infrared microspectrometer based on membrane-guided mode resonance filters integrated with a thermal camera..
SC Scholten, P Singh, AJ Healey, IO Robertson, G Haim, C Tan, DA Broadway, L Wang, H Abe, T Ohshima, M Kianinia, P Reineck, I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne
2024-12-01
Optically addressable spin defects hosted in two-dimensional van der Waals materials represent a new frontier for quantum technolo..
L Ospina-Rozo, I Medina, A Hugall, KJ Rankin, NW Roberts, A Roberts, A Mitchell, CAM Reid, A Moussalli, D Stuart-Fox
Beetles exhibit an extraordinary diversity of brilliant and colourful appearances and optical effects invisible to humans. Their u..
M Cotrufo, SB Sulejman, L Wesemann, MA Rahman, M Bhaskaran, A Roberts, A Alù
Optical metasurfaces have enabled analog computing and image processing within sub-wavelength footprints, and with reduced power c..
J Meng, S Balendhran, Y Sabri, SK Bhargava, KB Crozier
Smart, low-cost and portable gas sensors are highly desired due to the importance of air quality monitoring for environmental and ..
H Tan, J Meng, KB Crozier
2024-11-22
Midinfrared (2.5-25 μm) spectroscopy is an ideal tool for identifying chemicals in a nondestructive manner. The traditional platfo..
Callum Vidler, Michael Halwes, Kirill Kolesnik, Philipp Segeritz, Matthew Mail, Anders J Barlow, Emmanuelle M Koehl, Anand Ramakrishnan, Lilith M Caballero Aguilar, David R Nisbet, Daniel J Scott, Daniel E Heath, Kenneth B Crozier, David J Collins
2024-10-31
Additive manufacturing is an expanding multidisciplinary field encompassing applications including medical devices1, aerospace com..
M Hennessey, B Whitefield, P Singh, H Alijani, H Abe, T Ohshima, C Gavin, DA Broadway, M Toth, JP Tetienne, I Aharonovich, M Kianinia
2024-10-23
Spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are emerging as promising platforms for quantum sensing applications. In particular,..
M Setareh, R De Gille, J Cadusch, D Wen, S Kim, KB Crozier
2024-09-18
Solenoid beams are structured beams exhibiting patterns of light that rotate around the axis of propagation. They can exert forces..
AJ Healey, P Singh, IO Robertson, C Gavin, SC Scholten, DA Broadway, P Reineck, H Abe, T Ohshima, M Kianinia, I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne
2024-09-01
Boron vacancy centre ( V B − ) ensembles in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have attracted recent interest for their potential as tw..
Alexander Corletto, Purevlkham Myagmarsereejid, Shifan Wang, Wei Yan, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Huan Liu, Yu Lin Zhong, Kenneth B Crozier, Munkhbayar Batmunkh, James Bullock
Bulk black phosphorous (bP) exhibits excellent infrared (IR) optoelectronic properties, but most reported bP IR photodetectors are..
N Priscilla, SB Sulejman, A Roberts, L Wesemann
2024-08-21
Visualizing the phase of an optical field is fundamental to applications ranging from biological microscopy through to material sc..
W Yan, S Wang, K Xing, S Balendhran, M Tebyetekerwa, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, MS Fuhrer, KB Crozier, J Bullock
2024-08-08
Homojunctions are key elements in many mainstream electronic devices. However, conventional dopant-based “pn” homojunctions are no..
N Priscilla, L Wesemann, L Clark, SB Sulejman, J Rickett, TJ Davis, A Roberts
2024-07-01
Metasurfaces have recently emerged as an ultra-compact solution to perform all-optical image processing, including phase contrast ..
N Syed, GO Bonin, C Kim Nguyen, MX Low, J Meng, A Zavabeti, BJ Murdoch, ASR Chesman, S Wang, P Punj, KA Messalea, S Walia, J Bullock, KB Crozier, DE Gómez, A Roberts
2024-05-24
Ultrathin transparent semiconducting oxides have attracted considerable attention in multifunctional electronic and optoelectronic..
KB Crozier
2024-02-21
Optical tweezers use the momentum carried by light to exert forces on objects. They have had a profound impact on a truly diverse ..
M Parry, KB Crozier, AA Sukhorukov, DN Neshev
2024-02-15
The development of active metasurface systems, such as lasing metasurfaces, requires the optimization of multiple modes at the abs..
Damian Nelson, Sejeong Kim, Kenneth B Crozier
2024-01-17
We use topology optimization and adjoint sensitivity analysis to inversely design plasmonic nanoapertures for nanoparticle optical..
Chung Kim Nguyen, Patrick D Taylor, Ali Zavabeti, Hamidah Alluhaybi, Samira Almalki, Xiangyang Guo, Mehmood Irfan, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Samuel J Ippolito, Michelle JS Spencer, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Ann Roberts, Torben Daeneke, Kenneth B Crozier, Ylias Sabri, Nitu Syed
2024-01-01
Liquid metal-based printing techniques are emerging as an exemplary platform for harvesting non-layered 2D materials with a thickn..
J Meng, S Balendhran, KB Crozier
A mid-infrared metasurface microspectrometer featuring free-standing guided mode resonance bandpass filters is presented. We combi..
Nitu Syed, Chung Kim Nguyen, Ali Zavabeti, Mei Xian Low, Xiaotian Wei, Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Mehmood Irfan, Wendy SL Lee, Ngoc MH Duong, Anh Thai Nguyen, Philipp Reineck, Lei Bao, Ann Roberts, Torben Daeneke
Thin film transistors (TFTs) offer unparalleled opportunities for the fabrication of multifunctional electronic and optoelectronic..
H Tan, B Li, KB Crozier
2023-12-01
Smartphones are a potentially powerful platform for scientific instruments. Here, we demonstrate speckle spectroscopy with smartph..
SB Sulejman, N Priscilla, L Wesemann, WSL Lee, J Lou, E Hinde, TJ Davis, A Roberts
Many image processing operations involve the modification of the spatial frequency content of images. Here we demonstrate object-p..
C Vidler, K Crozier, D Collins
Projection micro stereolithography (PµSL) is a digital light processing (DLP) based printing technique for producing structured mi..
TJ Davis, L Ospina-Rozo, D Stuart-Fox, A Roberts
2023-10-23
A coupled mode theory based on Takagi-Taupin equations describing electromagnetic scattering from distorted periodic arrays is app..
S Balendhran, M Taha, S Wang, W Yan, N Higashitarumizu, D Wen, NS Azar, J Bullock, P Mulvaney, A Javey, KB Crozier
2023-10-13
Flexible optoelectronics is a rapidly growing field, with a wide range of potential applications. From wearable sensors to bendabl..
H Alijani, P Reineck, R Komljenovic, SP Russo, MX Low, S Balendhran, KB Crozier, S Walia, GR Nash, LY Yeo, AR Rezk
2023-10-10
Two-dimensional (2D) layered metal dichalcogenides constitute a promising class of materials for photodetector applications due to..
BJ Russell, J Meng, KB Crozier
2023-10-01
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy enables nondestructive and real-time chemical identification. Emerging demand for in situ sensi..
SK Jain, N Syed, S Balendhran, SAT Abbas, RT Ako, MX Low, C Lobo, A Zavabeti, BJ Murdoch, G Gupta, M Bhaskaran, KB Crozier, SP Russo, T Daeneke, S Walia
2023-08-07
Gallium nitride (GaN) technology has matured and commercialised for optoelectronic devices in the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum over t..
Islay O Robertson, Sam C Scholten, Priya Singh, Alexander J Healey, Fernando Meneses, Philipp Reineck, Hiroshi Abe, Takeshi Ohshima, Mehran Kianinia, Igor Aharonovich, Jean-Philippe Tetienne
2023-07-05
Detecting magnetic noise from small quantities of paramagnetic spins is a powerful capability for chemical, biochemical, and medic..
L Ospina-Rozo, N Priscilla, J Hutchison, A van de Meene, NW Roberts, D Stuart-Fox, A Roberts
2023-06-01
Beetle elytra (hardened forewings) are a promising source of inspiration to develop or enhance the performance of human-fabricated..
N Higashitarumizu, SZ Uddin, D Weinberg, NS Azar, IKM Reaz Rahman, V Wang, KB Crozier, E Rabani, A Javey
2023-05-01
Black phosphorus has emerged as a unique optoelectronic material, exhibiting tunable and high device performance from mid-infrared..
HY Lee, D Nelson, W Yan, KB Crozier, J Bullock, S Kim
2D materials, with distinct characteristics compared to their conventional bulk counterparts, have been a popular topic in various..
I Khodasevych, L Wesemann, A Roberts, F Iacopi
Meta-optical devices have recently emerged as ultra-compact candidates for real-time computation in the spatial domain. The use of..
D Wen, KB Crozier
2023-04-02
Semiconductor lasers play critical roles in many different systems, ranging from optical communications to absorption spectroscopy..
SSM Khaleghi, D Wen, J Cadusch, KB Crozier
2023-01-16
The remarkable advances in nanofabrication that have occurred over the last decade present opportunities for the realization of ne..
Subhajit Chakraborty, Yang Xu, Ann Roberts, Debabrata Goswami, Trevor A Smith
2023-01-01
Evanescent wave-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (EWIFS) is a widely used technique for probing the interfacial behavior of diffe..
AJ Healey, SC Scholten, T Yang, JA Scott, GJ Abrahams, IO Robertson, XF Hou, YF Guo, S Rahman, Y Lu, M Kianinia, I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne
Solid-state spin sensors have the capacity to act as quantum microscopes for probing material properties and physical processes. H..
I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne, M Toth
2022-12-14
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a fascinating platform to explore quantum emitters and their applications. Beyond bei..
SJU White, T Yang, N Dontschuk, C Li, ZQ Xu, M Kianinia, A Stacey, M Toth, I Aharonovich
2022-12-01
Controlling and manipulating individual quantum systems in solids underpins the growing interest in the development of scalable qu..
NA Aghamiri, G Hu, A Fali, Z Zhang, J Li, S Balendhran, S Walia, S Sriram, JH Edgar, S Ramanathan, A Alù, Y Abate
Polaritons enable subwavelength confinement and highly anisotropic flows of light over a wide spectral range, holding the promise ..
L Ospina-Rozo, A Roberts, D Stuart-Fox
2022-11-01
To understand the diversity of ways in which natural materials interact with light, it is important to consider how their reflecta..
D Wen, K Pan, J Meng, X Wu, X Guo, P Li, S Liu, D Li, B Wei, X Xie, D Yang, J Zhao, KB Crozier
2022-10-01
Beams with spatially-varying polarization states have been the topic of much interest recently due to the unusual ways in which th..
H Tan, JJ Cadusch, J Meng, KB Crozier
2022-05-23
Miniaturized mid-infrared spectrometers present opportunities for applications that range from health monitoring to agriculture. O..
L Wesemann, J Rickett, TJ Davis, A Roberts
2022-05-18
The conversion of phase variations in an optical wavefield into intensity information is of fundamental importance for optical ima..
BJ Russell, JJ Cadusch, J Meng, D Wen, KB Crozier
2022-05-15
Mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy has numerous industrial applications and is usually performed with Fourier-transform infrared (FTI..
J Meng, L Weston, S Balendhran, D Wen, JJ Cadusch, R Rajasekharan Unnithan, KB Crozier
2022-04-01
The identification of chemicals from their mid-infrared spectra has applications that include industrial production of chemicals, ..
J Zha, M Luo, M Ye, T Ahmed, X Yu, DH Lien, Q He, D Lei, JC Ho, J Bullock, KB Crozier, C Tan
2D materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, and tellurium, have been demonstrated to be pr..
JJ Cadusch, J Meng, D Wen, VR Shrestha, KB Crozier
2022-02-16
Spectroscopic optical measurements of visible light provide important real-time information in many research and industrial settin..
N Gupta, H Kim, NS Azar, SZ Uddin, DH Lien, KB Crozier, A Javey
2022-02-09
The mid-wave infrared (MWIR) wavelength range plays a central role in a variety of applications, including optical gas sensing, in..
L Wesemann, J Rickett, J Song, J Lou, E Hinde, TJ Davis, A Roberts
2021-12-01
The ability to visualise transparent objects such as live cells is central to understanding biological processes. Here we experime..
M Ye, J Zha, C Tan, KB Crozier
2021-09-01
Graphene, a semi-metal with a gapless band structure, has been used in mid-infrared (MIR) photodetectors (PDs) for some time. Howe..
Lukas Wesemann, Timothy J Davis, Ann Roberts
All-optical spatial frequency filtering has a long history with many applications now commonly replaced with digital alternatives...
S Balendhran, Z Hussain, VR Shrestha, J Cadusch, M Ye, N Sefidmooye Azar, H Kim, R Ramanathan, J Bullock, A Javey, V Bansal, KB Crozier
2021-08-18
Mid-wave and long-wave infrared (MWIR and LWIR) detection play vital roles in applications that include health care, remote sensin..
2021-08-01
The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of metasurfaces. In this paper, we outline our thinking on what we regard as t..