Michael S ALTMAN, Head of Department and Professor
Che Ting CHAN, Chair Professor; Director, William Mong Institute of Nano Science and Technology Michael M T LOY, Chair Professor; Acting Head, Division of Life Science
Ping SHENG, Dr William M W Mong Chair Professor of Nanoscience Penger TONG, Chair Professor
Henry TYE, Chair Professor; Director of Institute for Advanced Study
George K L WONG, Chair Professor and Director, Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility Pak Wo LEUNG, Professor
Tai Kai NG, Professor; Associate Dean of Science Iam Keong SOU, Professor
Wing Yim TAM, Professor
Zi Kang TANG, Professor, Director of Nano Science and Technology Program Jiannong WANG, Professor
Ning WANG, Professor Xiangrong WANG, Professor Weijia WEN, Professor Kam Sing WONG, Professor Michael K Y WONG, Professor Zhiyu YANG, Professor
Zhaoqing ZHANG, Professor Ho Bun CHAN, Associate Professor Bradley A FOREMAN, Associate Professor Kwok Kwong FUNG, Senior Lecturer Nian LIN, Associate Professor
Kwok Yip SZETO, Associate Professor Tian Wen CHEN, Visiting Assistant Professor Shengwang DU, Assistant Professor
Yilong HAN, Assistant Professor
Chi Wai LAI, Visiting Assistant Professor Kam Tuen LAW, Assistant Professor Rolf Walter LORTZ, Assistant Professor
Michael S ALTMAN
Head of Department and Professor (2358 7478 ; [email protected])
PhD, Brown University (1988)
Research Fellow, Technical University of Clausthal (1988-1990) Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center (1990-91) Current Research Activities:
Surface physics; diffusion and growth; surface step dynamics; structure, magnetism and quantum electronic properties of ultrathin films;
electron spin physics; low energy electron microscopy and diffraction; field emission microscopy and spectroscopy.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Kinetic Processes that Mediate Surface Step Morphological Evolution
RGC - General Research Fund HK$833,880 01 Dec 2008
Surface Mass Transport During Non-equilibrium Profile Evolution
RGC - General Research Fund HK$713,000 01 Dec 2009
Controlling Magnetic Interfaces Using Ordered Surface Alloys
RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,259,250 01 Dec 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Altman, Michael S (2010) "CO Prefers the Aisle Seat", Science, Volume 327, pp. 789-790.
Altman, Michael S (2010) "Trends in Low Energy Electron Microscopy", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 22, no. 8, pp.
084017_1-14.
Niu, Yuran, Altman, Michael S (2009) "Superparamagnetic Limit to Spin-polarized Vacuum Tunneling from Fe-coated W(001) Tips", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 95, no. 20, pp. 203113_1-3.
Man, Ka Lun, Tringides, Michael, Loy, Michael M T, Altman, Michael S (2008) "Anomalous Mass Transport in the Pb Wetting Layer on the Si(111) Surface", Physical Review Letters, Volume 101, pp. 226102 (4 pages).
Pang, Angbo, Man, Ka Lun, Altman, Michael, Stasevich, Timothy, Szalma, Ferenc, Einstein, Theodore (2008) "Step Line Tension and Step Morphological Evolution on the Si(111) (1x1) Surface", Physical Review B, Volume 77, pp. 115424, 1 - 12.
Wu, Y.Z., Schmid, A.K., Altman, M.S., Jin, X.F., Qiu, Z.Q. (2005) "Spin-dependent Fabry-Perot Interferometer of a Cu Thin Film Grown on fcc Co(001)", Physical Review Letters, Volume 94, pp. 027201, 1-4.
Man, K.L., Qiu, Z.Q., Altman, M.S. (2004) "Kinetic Limitations in Electronic Growth of Ag films on Fe(100)", Physical Review Letters, Volume 93, pp. 236104, 1-4.
Chung, W.F., Feng, Yongjia, Poon, H.C., Chan, Che Ting, Tong, S.Y., Altman, Michael S. (2003) "Layer Spacings in Coherently Strained Epitaxial Metal Films", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, pp. 216105_1-4.
Che Ting CHAN
Chair Professor; Director, William Mong Institute of Nano Science and Technology (2358 7487 ; [email protected])
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1985)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (1986-88)
Associate Physicist and Physicist, Ames Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (1988-95) Current Research Activities:
Electronic, structural and other physical properties of matter; surface physics; photonic band gaps; material physics; nanomaterials.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Using the idea of transformation optics to manipulate waves
RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,322,178 15 Jul 2009 Electromagnetic fields and light-induced electromagnetic forces for arbitrary shaped objects and their aggregates
RGC - General Research Fund HK$579,610 01 Oct 2008
Using Photonic Crystals to Realize Dirac Cones at the Brillouin Zone Center and Effective "Double Zero" (Permittivity & Zero-Permeability) Materials
RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,000,951 01 Aug 2011
New notions of controlling waves and manipulating materials: bringing imagination to reality
UGC - Special Research Fund Initiative HK$333,000 30 Jun 2011
Representative Research Publications:
Chen, Huanyang, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Acoustic cloaking and transformation acoustics", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 43(11): 113001.
Zheng, HH, Xiao, JJ, Lai, Y, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Exterior optical cloaking and illusions by using active sources: A boundary element perspective", Physical Review B, 81(19): 195116.
Ng, Jack, Lin, Zhifang, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Theory of Optical Trapping by an Optical Vortex Beam", Physical Review Letters, 104(10): 103601.
Chen, Huanyang, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Transformation optics and metamaterials", Nature Materials, 9(5): 387-396.
Chen, HY, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "'Cloaking at a distance' from folded geometries in bipolar coordinates", Optics Letters, 34(17):
2649-2651.
Ao, XY, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Complex band structures and effective medium descriptions of periodic acoustic composite systems", Physical Review B, 80(23): 235118.
Dong, JW, Fung, KH, Chan, Che Ting, Wang, HZ (2009) "Localization characteristics of two-dimensional quasicrystals consisting of metal nanoparticles", Physical Review B, 80(15): 155118.
Ao, XY, Lin, ZF, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "One-way edge mode in a magneto-optical honeycomb photonic crystal", Physical Review B, 80(3): 033105, Jul 2009.
Michael M T LOY
Chair Professor; Acting Head, Division of Life Science (2358 7971 ; [email protected])
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1971) Senior Manager, IBM Research (1987-93)
Current Research Activities:
Nonlinear optical propagation effects; two-photon coherent transients; nonlinear optical studies of surfaces; state-selective studies of molecule-surface interactions.
Representative Research Publications:
Zhang, Wei Kevin, Wang, Dong, Duan, Yuanyuan, Loy, Michael M T, Chan, Hsiao Chang, Huang, Pingbo (2010)
"Mechanosensitive gating of CFTR", Nature Cell Biology, Vol 12, 509.
Chen, Jiefei, Wang, Shuyuan, Wei, Dong, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Optical coherent transients in cold atoms: From free-induction decay to optical precursors", Physical Review A, vol 81, 033844 (2010).
Chen, Jiefei, Zhang, Shanchao, Yan, Hui, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Shaping Biphoton Temporal Waveforms with Modulated Classical Fields", Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 183604.
Chen, Jiefei, Jeong, Heejeong, Feng, Lin, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Stacked Optical Precursors from Amplitude and Phase Modulations", Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 223602.
Yao, B., Feng, Lin, Cheng, C, Loy, Michael M T, Wang, Ning (2010) "Tailoring the luminescence emission of ZnO nanostructures by hydrothermal post-treatment in water", Applied Physics Letters, Vol 95, 223105.
Chen, Jiefei, Lu, Weixin, Wang, Shuyuan, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Two-photon free-induction decay with electromagnetically induced transparency", Optics Letters, Vol 35, 1923.
Wei, Dong, Chen, Jiefei, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Optical Precursors with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms", Physical Review Letters, vol 103, 093602.
Wang, Kedong, Zhang, Xieqiu, Loy, Michael M T, Chiang, T.-C., Xiao, Xudong (2009) "Pseudogap Mediated by Quantum-Size Effects in Lead Islands", Physical Review Letters, 102, 076801.
Ping SHENG
Dr William M W Mong Chair Professor of Nanoscience
(2358 7474 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/department/staff.html)
PhD, Princeton University (1971).
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1971-73) Senior Research Associate, Exxon Research and Engineering Co (1979-95) Current Research Activities:
Physics of disordered materials; complex fluids; liquid crystals; wave localization and multiple scattering; physics of meso-systems and nanomaterials.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Simulation and Experimental Studies of Electric Field-Induced Molecular Dipole Filaments Formation
RGC - General Research Fund HK$816,500 01 Aug 2011
Experimental and theoretical study of carbon nanotube superconductivity and nanostructured graphene characteristics
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$5,400,000 01 Mar 2009
Short Range Order and Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$200,000 30 Jun 2011
Functional nanostructure - from novel interfacial phenomena to superconductivity
UGC - Special Research Fund Initiative HK$1,800,000 30 Jun 2011
Functional nanostructure - from novel interfacial phenomena to superconductivity
UGC - Postgraduate Studentship HK$489,600 01 Sep 2011
Representative Research Publications:
Yang, Zhi Yu, Dai, H. M., Chan, N. H., Ma, Guancong, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Acoustic Metamaterial Panels for Sound Attenuation in the 50-1000 Hz Regime", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 96, Article Number: 041906.
Sheng, Ping, Wen, Weijia (2010) "Electrorheology: Statics and Dynamics", Solid State Communications, Volume: 150, Page: 1023-1039.
Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao Ping, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions: An Emergent Behavior of Fluid-Solid Interactions", Solid State Communications, Volume: 150, Page: 976-989.
Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Hang, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Lortz, Rolf Walter, Sheng, Ping (2010)
"Superconducting Resistive Transition in Coupled Arrays of 4 Å Carbon Nanotubes", Physical Review B, Volume: 81, Article Number:
174530.
Chen, H., Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Transformation Optics and Metamaterials", Nature Materials, Volume: 9, Pages: 387-396.
Xiong, X. M., Guo, Shuo, Xu, Zuli, Sheng, Ping, Tong, Penger (2009) "Development of an Atomic-force-microscope-based Hanging-fiber Rheometer for Interfacial Microrheology", Physical Review E, Volume: 80, Article Number: 061604.
Miyamaru, F., Saito, Y., Takeda, M. W., Liu, L., Hou, B., Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Emission of Terahertz Radiations from Fractal Antennas", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 95, Article Number: 221111.
Tang, C. J., Wang, Z. L., Zhang, W. Y., Zhu, S. N., Ming, N. B., Sun, G., Sheng, Ping (2009) "Localized and Delocalized Surface-plasmon-mediated Light Tunneling Through Monolayer Hexagonal-close-packed Metallic Nanoshells", Physical Review B, Volume: 80, Article Number: 165401.
Penger TONG Chair Professor
(2358 7498 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/penger/)
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1988)
Assistant Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1990-1995) Associate Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1995-1999) Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1999-2003)
Visiting Scientisit in Applied Physics, Harvard University (2001) Current Research Activities:
Non-equilibrium dynamics and soft condensed matter physics, including experiment studies of turbulent thermal convection, interactions and structure formation in suspensions, polymer solutions, and other complex fluids.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Experimental test of the steady-state fluctuation theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen in a driven far-from-equilibrium system
RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009
Development of an AFM-based passive rheometer for the study of interfacial dynamics
RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010
An experimental study of the diffusion dynamics of membrane-bound proteins in living cells
RGC - General Research Fund HK$869,055 01 Jan 2011
Experimental study of interfacial dynamics: from supported membranes to micro-menisci of a bubble mattress
France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$14,000 01 Jan 2011
Representative Research Publications:
Song, Hao, Tong, Penger (2010) "Scaling laws in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection under different geometry", Europhysics Letters, 90, 44001.
He, Xiaozhou, He, Guowei, Tong, Penger (2010) "Small-scale turbulent fluctuations beyond Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis", Physical Reivew E, 81, 065303(R).
Xiong, Xiaomin, Guo, Shuo, Xu, Zuli, Sheng, Ping, Tong, Penger (2009) "Development of an atomic-force-microscope-based hanging-fiber rheometer for interfacial microrheology", Physical Review E, 80, 061604.
Tang, Yecang, Wang, Zhining, Xiao, Junwu, Yang, Shihe, Wang, Yong Jian, Tong, Penger (2009) "Studies of Phospholipid Vesicle Deposition/Transformation on a Polymer Surface by Dissipative Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Atomic Force Microscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113, 14925.
Chen, Wei, Tan, Susheng, Zhou, Yi, Ng, Tai-Kai, Ford, Warren T., Tong, Penger (2009) "Attraction between weakly charged silica spheres at a water-air interface induced by surface-charge heterogeneity", Physical Review E, 79, 041403.
He, Xiaozhou, Tong, Penger (2009) "Measurements of the thermal dissipation field in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection", Physical Review E, 79, 026306.
Peng, Y., Chen, W., Fischer, TH. M., Weitz, D. A., Tong, P. (2009) "Short-time self-diffusion of nearly hard spheres at an oil-water interface", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 618, 243.
Kalyankar, Makrand G., Matson, W. R., Tong, Penger, Ackerson, Bruce J. (2008) "Pattern formation in a rotating suspension of non-Brownian buoyant particles", Physics of Fluids, 20, 083301.
Henry TYE
Chair Professor; Director of Institute for Advanced Study ([email protected])
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Research Activities:
Particle Theory; Superstring Theory; Cosmology; Brane World; High Energy Phenomenology
George K L WONG
Chair Professor and Director, Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility (2358 7471 ; [email protected])
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974)
Professor of Physics, Northwestern University (1989-96)
Current Research Activities:
Nonlinear optics; optical properties of Quantum wells and superlattices; nanostructures of semiconductors, ferroelectrics, polymers and organic materials.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Self-assembled Fe nanowire arrays by MBE: fabrication,magnetic and magneto-transport characterization
RGC - General Research Fund HK$552,495 01 Jan 2009
Bismuth-alloys based thin film topological insulators -- MBE growth and characterizations
RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,259,250 01 Oct 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Sou, Iam Keong, Lok, S K, Wang, G, Wang, Ning, Wong, George K L (2010) "MBE-Grown II-VI and Related Nanostructures", Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 39, Number 7 p.1-11.
Chen, J F, Wang, S., Wei, D, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Optical coherent transients in cold atoms: From free-induction decay to optical precursors", Physical Review A, Volume A81, p. 033844.
Chen, J F, Zhang, Shanchao, Yan, H, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Shaping biphoton temporal waveforms with modulated classical fields", Physical Review Letters, Volume 104, p.183604.
Chen, J F, Jeong, H, Feng, Lin, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Stacked optical precursors from amplitude and phase modulations", Physical Review Letters, Volume 104, p.223602.
Wang, G., Lok, S.K., Wong, George K L, Sou, Iam Keong (2009) "Molecular beam epitaxy-grown Bi4Te3 nanowires", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 95, p. 263102.
Wei, D, Chen, J F, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Optical precursors with electromagnetically induced transparency in cold atoms", Physical Review Letters, Volume 103, p. 093602.
Kok, M H, Lu, W, Tam, W Y, Wong, G K L (2009) "Lasing from dye-doped icosahedral quasicrystals in dichromate gelatin emulsions", Optics Express, 17 (9), pp. 7275-7284.
Wang, G, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Wang, C, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2009) "The formation of an aligned 1D nanostructure on annealed Fe/ZnSe bilayers", Nanotechnology, 20 (21), art. no. 215607.
Pak Wo LEUNG Professor
(2358 7483 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/phleung)
PhD, Cornell University (1990)
Current Research Activities:
Application of large scale and parallel computing to condensed matter physics; low-dimension quantum spin systems and high temperature superconductivity.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Quantum order in novel materials: superconductivity and topological order
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$750,000 01 Jan 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Chen, X., Farhoodfar, A., McIntosh, T., Gooding, R.J., Leung, Pak Wo (2008) "Critiquing variational theories of the Anderson-Hubbard model: real-space self-consistent Hartree-Fock solutions", Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, Volume: 20, Issue: 34, Article Number:
345211.
Cepas, O., Fong, C. M., Leung, Pak Wo, Lhuillier, C. (2008) "Quantum phase transition induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the kagome antiferromagnet", Physical Review B, Volume: 78, Issue: 14, Article Number: 140405.
Leung, P. W. (2007) "Numerical study of hole correlation in the t-J model with four holes on a 32-site lattice", International Journal Of Modern Physics B, Volume: 21, Issue: 18-19, Pages: 3118-3121.
Cheng, Y. F., Cepas, O., Ziman, T., Leung, P. W. (2007) "Magnon dispersion and anisotropies in SrCu2(BO3)2", Physical Review B, Vol. 75, P. 144422.
Cepas, O., Cheng, Y. F., Leung, P. W., Ziman, T. (2007) "Magnon dispersion and anisotropies in SrCu2(BO3)2", March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Mar 5-9, 2007, Denver, USA, organized by the American Physical Society, Mar 5-9, 2007.
Leung, P. W. (2007) "Numerical study of hole correlation in the t-J model with four holes on a 32-site lattice", Sixth International Conference on New Theories, Discoveries, and Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials (New3SC-6), Jan. 9-11, 2007, Sydney, Australia, organized by the JD Duz Institute for Superconductivity, Jan. 9-11, 2007.
Leung, P. W. (2006) "Charge carrier correlation in the electron-doped t-J model", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 73, P. 75104.
Leung, P. W. (2006) "Hole correlation and antiferromagnetic order in the t-J model", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 73, P. 14502.
Tai Kai NG
Professor; Associate Dean of Science (2358 7477 ; [email protected])
PhD, Northwestern University (1987)
Current Research Activities:
Mesoscopic physics; non-equilibrium quantum mechanical phenomena; quantum spin systems; strongly correlated metals.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Dynamical charge responses of Heisenberg spin systems
RGC - General Research Fund HK$536,705 31 Dec 2010
Quantum order in novel materials: superconductivity and topological order
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$10,005,000 01 Jun 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Liu, Z.X., Zhou, Y, Ng, T.K. (2010) "Possibility of S=1 spin liquids with fermionic spinons on triangular lattices", Physical Review B, Volume 81, 224417.
Ko, W.H., Liu, Z.X., Ng, T.K., Lee, P.A. (2010) "Raman signature of the U(1) Dirac spin-liquid state in spin-1/2 kagome system", Physical Review B, Volume 81, 024414.
Ng, T.K., Nagaosa, N. (2009) "Broken time-reversal symmetry in Josephson junction involving two-band superconductors", Europhysics letters, Volume 87, 17003.
Ng, T.K. (2009) "Ginzburg-Landau theory of dirty two band s superconductors", Physical Review Letters, Volume 103, 236402.
Ng, T.K., Avishai, Y. (2009) "In-gap bound states induced by nonmagnetic impurities in two-band s superconductors", Physical Review B, Volume 80, 104504.
Law, K.T., Lee, P.A., Ng, T.K. (2009) "Majorana Fermion induced Resant Andreev Reflection", Physical Review Letters, Volume 103,
237001.
Zhou, Yi, Ng, Tai Kai (2009) "Fermi-edge problem in the presence of AC electric field", Europhysics Letters, 86, 1,17004.
Feng, Xiao-Yong, Ng, Tai Kai (2009) "In-gap bound states and tunneling conductance of multi-band superconductors through a normal/superconductor/superconductor junction", Physical Review B, 79, 184503.
Iam Keong SOU Professor
(2358 7476 ; [email protected])
PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990)
Current Research Activities:
Thin film growth by molecular beam epitaxy; II-VI semiconductor quantum structures; magnetic nano-structures; UV and visible optoelectronic devices; structural and transport properties of thin films.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
A novel nanotrench template: control of its ordering and its use in surface plasmon resonance coupling
RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009
ZnMgS based UV flame detectors for fire-safety applications
Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau Special Administrative Region HK$899,580 01 Jan 2009
Representative Research Publications:
Wang, G, Lok, S K, Wong, George K L, Sou, Iam Keong (2009) "Molecular beam epitaxy-grown Bi4Te3 nanowires", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 95, Issue: 26, Article Number: 263102. Published: DEC 28 2009.
Wang, G, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Wang, C, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2009) "The formation of an aligned 1D nanostructure on annealed Fe/ZnSe bilayers.", Nanotechnology, vol.20, no.21, pp. 215607 (4 ).
Wang, C, Zhang, B, You, B, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Zhang, X X, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2008) "Competitive antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic coupling in a CrSe/Fe/GaAs(111)B structure.", Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 023916 (7).
Cai, Y, Wong, T L, Chan, S K, Sou, I K, Su, D S, Wang, N (2008) "Growth behaviors of ultrathin ZnSe nanowires by Au-catalyzed molecular-beam epitaxy", Applied Physics Letters, vol.93, no.23, pp. 233107 (3 ).
Chan, S K, Lok, S K, Wang, G, Cai, Y, Wang, Y J, Wang, N, Sou, I K (2008) "Formation mechanism of nanotrenches induced by mobile catalytic nanoparticles", Applied Physics Letters, vol.92, pp. 183102-1-3.
Cai, Yuan, Chan, Siu Keung, Sou, Iam Keong, Chan, Yu Fai, Su, Dang Sheng, Wang, Ning (2007) "Temperature dependent growth direction of ultrathin ZnSe Nanowires", Small, vol. 3, No. 1, page 111-115.
Chan, S. K., Cai, Y., Wang, N., Sou, I. K. (2006) "Control of growth orientation for epitaxially grown ZnSe nanowires", Applied Physics Letters,, vol.88, 13108-1-3.
Cai, Yuan, Chan, Siu Keung, Sou, Iam Keong, Chan, Yu Fai, Su, Dang Sheng, Wang, Ning (2006) "The size-dependent growth direction of ZnSe nanowires", Advanced Materials, Vol. 18, 109-114.
Wing Yim TAM Professor
(2358 7490 ; [email protected])
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1985)
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson (1988-93)
Current Research Activities:
Nonlinear dynamics and complex systems; cellular structures; complex fluids (electro-rheological fluids); photonic band gap materials;
holographic lithography.
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Manipulation of light by structural and layered medium
UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Hung, Jenny, Kok, Mang Hin, Tam, Wing Yim (2009) "Complete Photonic Bandgaps in the Visible Range from Spherical Layer Structures in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", App. Phys. Lett., 94, 014102.
Kok, Mang Hin, Lu, Waixin, Tam, Wing Yim, Wong, George K. L. (2009) "Visible Light Lasing From Dye-doped Icosahedral Quasicrystals in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", Optics Express, 17, 7275-7284.
Kok, Man Hin, Lu, Weixin, Lee, Jeffery Chi Wai, Tam, Wing Yim, Wong, George K. L., Chan, C. T. (2008) "Lasing From Dye-doped 1D Photonic Crystals With Gradient Layers in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", App. Phys. Lett., 91, 151108 (2008).
Xu, Jun, Ma, Rui, Wang, Xia, Tam, Wing Yim (2007) "Icosahedral Quasicrystals for Visible Wavelength by Optical Interference Holography", Optics Express, 15, 4287-4295.
Tam, Wing Yim (2006) "Icosahedral Quasicrystals by Optical Interference Holography", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 251111.
Pang, Yee Kwong, Lee, Jeffrey Chi Wai, Ho, Cheuk Ting, Tam, Wing Yim (2006) "Realization of Woodpile Structure Using Optical Interference Holography", Optics Express 14, 9013-9019.
Pang, Yee Kwong, Lee, Jeffrey Chi Wai, Lee, Hung Fai, Tam, Wing Yim, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Chiral microstructures (spirals) fabrication by holographic lithography", Optics Express, 13, 7615-7620 (2005).
Wang, Xia, Ng, C.Y., Tam, Wing Yim, Chan, C.T., Sheng, Ping (2003) "Large area two-dimensional mesoscale quasicrystals", Adv. Materials, 15, 1526-1528.
Zi Kang TANG
Professor, Director of Nano Science and Technology Program (2358 7972 ; [email protected])
PhD, Tohoku University (1992)
Senior Researcher, Photodynamics Research Centre, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (1992-94)
Current Research Activities:
Carbon nanotubes, nanostructured complex, optical and transport properties of of nanostructured materials; ZnO nanostructured thin films
Active Projects as Principal Investigator:
Ultra-thin single-walled carbon nanotubes with a single chirality
RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009
Hyperfine spectral study of molecular iodine trapped in nano cages of zeolite single crystals for optical clock application
RGC - General Research Fund HK$869,055 30 Dec 2010
Representative Research Publications:
Zhu, H., Shan, C. X., Zhang, J. Y., Zhang, Z. Z., Li, B. H., Zhao, D. X., Yao, Bin, Shen, D. Z., Fan, X. W., Tang, Zikang, Hou, X. H., Choy, K. L. (2010) "Low-Threshold Electrically Pumped Random Lasers", Adv. Materials, 22, 1877-1881.
Lortz, Rolf Walter, Zhang, Q. C., Shi, W., Ye, J. T., Qiu, C. Y., Wang, Zhe, He, Hongtao, Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, X. X., Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting characteristics of 4 A carbon nanotube--zeolite composite", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(18), 7299-7303.
Lortz, Rolf Walter, Zhang, Q. C., Shi, W., Ye, J. T., Qiu, C. Y., Wang, Z., He, H. T., Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting characteristics of 4-A carbon nanotube-zeolite composite", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(18), 7299-7303.
Tang, Zikang, Zhai, J. P., Tong, Y. Y., Hu, X. J., Saito, R., Feng, F. J., Sheng, Ping (2008) "Resonant Raman Scattering of
the Smallest Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 047402.
Zhai, J. P., Lee, H. F., Li, I. L., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2008) "Controlling the alignment of neutral iodine molecules in the elliptical
Zhai, J. P., Lee, H. F., Li, I. L., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2008) "Controlling the alignment of neutral iodine molecules in the elliptical