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NANOPHOTONICS: from fundamentals to real life applications (EPSRC Sponsored UK-Taiwan Collaboration Program for Success through People)

纳米光子学：从基础知识到现实生活中的应用（EPSRC 赞助的英台合作项目，以人为本）

基本信息

批准号：
EP/F012810/1
负责人：
Nikolay Zheludev
金额：
$ 21.58万
依托单位：
University of Southampton
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF012810%2F1
关键词：
NANOPHOTONICS fundamentals real life applications

项目摘要

The new field of Nanophotonics emerges when we force light to interact with nano-structures, artificial matter engineered and arranged on the scale of only billionths of a meter. Crossing the quantum bridge between nano and photonics produces a remarkable range of new materials and phenomena. Nanophotonics promises captivating new fundamental physics, and new mind-blowing applications in low power, ultra-small devices performing at the quantum edge in a wide range of technologies, from information processing, telecommunications and data storage to defence-related monitoring, security, medicine and biotechnologies. It is simply astonishing how fast new ideas in Nanophotonics find industrial followers. The stakes in fields where Nanophotonics could be applied are high, and their potential technological and social impact is immense. There are two topics in the nanophotonics agenda that that are most relevant to the proposed collaboration - nanoscale phase change switching functionality and plasmonics and nanoscale concentration of light.The proposed grant aims to facilitate a long-term and high-profile collaboration between leading research groups in the UK and Taiwan in the filed of Nanophotonics. In the modern world, where research and development are rapidly being globalized and outsourced, there is a real shift of research activities from the traditional powerhouses of the West to industrial countries with good educational systems, cheap labour and a favourable economic climate. Evidence of such changes can be seen in the relocation of key research centres of international blue-chip companies to the new industrial nations. This presents a challenge to the UK research base that can best be addressed by taking a central role in this new worldwide reality and establishing mutually beneficial R&D collaborations with the new players. Although relatively small in comparison with Japan and China, and for historic reasons partially politically isolated, Taiwan has for many years had a very dynamic economy and an excellent education system. Colleges and universities in Taiwan have some of the highest rates of enrolment in the world. National Taiwan University (the proposed partner) is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Asia. The Taiwanese government has launched the Challenge 2008 National Development Plan, with the goal of making Taiwan the best R&D location in Asia by attracting international R&D personnel and introducing R&D resources from around the world. It is providing US$1.43 billion in loans for R&D, cultivating the necessary personnel locally by establishing academic institutions specialising in key areas (such as IC design, information and communications technologies and digital content), encouraging cooperation among industry, academia, and research organizations, establishing innovation and R&D centres, and promoting key research for the acquisition of core industrial technologies. In response to such proactive government policies, international blue-chip companies such as Intel (Innovation Centre), Hewlett-Packard, IBM (Life Sciences Centre of Excellence), Siemens, Dell, and Sony have recently established research centres in Taiwan. Today Taiwan is a powerhouse high-tech exporter and in many ways a truly modern economy, freeing itself from the nationalist's agenda and establishing new contacts and working relations with China.Unfortunately, research collaboration activities between UK and Taiwan institutions are currently not very well developed. Therefore, the key element of novelty in this proposal is the establishment of a new high-profile research link with what promises to be a one of the most important high-tech nations of the future.

当我们迫使光与纳米结构、仅十亿分之一米大小的人造物质相互作用时，纳米光子学的新领域就出现了。跨越纳米和光子学之间的量子桥产生了一系列引人注目的新材料和新现象。纳米光子学有望在低功耗、超小型设备中带来令人着迷的新基础物理和令人兴奋的新应用，这些设备在信息处理、电信和数据存储到国防相关监控、安全、医学和生物技术等广泛技术的量子边缘上运行。纳米光子学的新想法找到工业追随者的速度真是令人惊讶。纳米光子学的应用领域风险很高，其潜在的技术和社会影响也巨大。纳米光子学议程中有两个主题与拟议的合作最相关——纳米级相变切换功能以及等离激元和纳米级光聚光。拟议的拨款旨在促进英国和台湾领先研究小组在纳米光子学领域的长期和高调合作。在现代世界，研发迅速全球化和外包，研究活动真正从西方传统强国转移到拥有良好教育体系、廉价劳动力和有利经济气候的工业国家。这种变化的证据可以从国际蓝筹公司的主要研究中心迁往新兴工业国家中看出。这对英国研究基地提出了挑战，最好的解决方法是在这一新的全球现实中发挥核心作用，并与新参与者建立互利的研发合作。尽管与日本和中国相比，台湾相对较小，并且由于历史原因在政治上部分孤立，但台湾多年来一直拥有非常活跃的经济和优秀的教育体系。台湾的学院和大学的入学率是世界上最高的。国立台湾大学（拟议的合作伙伴）被广泛认为是亚洲最好的大学之一。台湾政府推出挑战2008国家发展计划，目标是通过吸引国际研发人才、引进世界各地的研发资源，使台湾成为亚洲最佳的研发基地。它提供14.3亿美元的研发贷款，通过建立专门从事关键领域（如集成电路设计、信息和通信技术和数字内容）的学术机构来培养当地必要的人才，鼓励产学研机构之间的合作，建立创新和研发中心，并推动获取核心产业技术的关键研究。为响应政府积极政策，英特尔（创新中心）、惠普、IBM（生命科学卓越中心）、西门子、戴尔、索尼等国际蓝筹公司最近在台湾设立了研究中心。如今，台湾是一个强大的高科技出口国，在很多方面都是一个真正的现代经济体，将自己从民族主义议程中解放出来，并与中国大陆建立了新的联系和工作关系。不幸的是，英国和台湾机构之间的研究合作活动目前还不是很发达。因此，该提案的新颖性关键要素是与有望成为未来最重要高科技国家之一的国家建立新的高调研究联系。