PhD in Metasurfaces for Machine Vision and Compact Photonics University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in time crystals , timetronics , nanophotonics, and next-generation data processing. The project explores the physics of time crystals and the idea of a timetron : a nanomechanical element switched by light between rest and sustained oscillation to encode logical states for data processing. Research themes include experimental photonics, computational electromagnetic modelling, nanofabrication, machine learning and AI, and electron/optical microsc...

University of Southampton is advertising a funded PhD project in picophotonics , focused on sub-nanometre light–matter interactions , optical metrology , and super-resolution imaging . The project explores how deeply subwavelength light fields, metamaterials, information theory, and artificial intelligence can be combined to achieve atomic-scale optical measurement precision. The research sits in the Nanophotonics research group and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in hyperuniform disordered metasurfaces for solar-thermal energy conversion . This project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and will be based at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) . The research focuses on solar-thermal energy conversion , metasurfaces , photonic materials , optical physics , electromagnetic simulation , artificial intelligence , and machine learning . The aim is to develop and model hyperuniform dis...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in metasurface technologies for Physical AI and machine learning-enabled nanophotonics for consumer electronics. This project sits at the intersection of electrical engineering , nanotechnology , optical physics , electromagnetism , and machine learning . You will work on nanostructured optical hardware and metasurfaces that can manipulate light for sensing and information processing, with the goal of reducing latency and computational overhead fo...

PhD opportunity at the University of Surrey in Smart Optical Design: AI Tools for the Next Generation of Cinematic Camera Lenses . This funded project sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence , Computer Vision , Computer Graphics , Machine Learning , and computational imaging . The research aims to build a computational framework that combines data-driven modelling and differentiable rendering to accelerate lens design and simulation. The project will explore both forward simulation (...