07/11/2022

Mr. Billy K. K. Lee (MPhil in PHY) et al. published an article "An exploration of the properties of cluster profiles for the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effects" on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

02/11/2022

Professors Otto Hannuksela, Tjonnie Li and Ren-Bao Liu have received the China Top Cited Paper Awards by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing for their research papers. IOP Publishing selected papers from across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio within the past three years (2019-21) and recognized those were the top one per cent of most cited papers in different areas.

06/10/2022

Prof. Yangqian Yan received the NSFC Young Scientists Fund 2022 to support his project "Equation of state and thermodynamic properties of the unitary Fermi gas".

20/09/2022

Prof. Zheng-Cheng Gu et al. published an article "Emergence of Gapless Quantum Spin Liquid from Deconfined Quantum Critical Point" on Physical Review X.

25/08/2022

Prof. Ming Chung Chu has been awarded the appointment of "Choh-Ming Li Professor of Physics" for a term of 5 years, in recognition of his outstanding academic achievements.

Mr. Junyu Lin (PhD student in PHY), Dr. Junyu He (PhD in PHY), Prof. Dajun Wang et al. published an article "Seconds-Scale Coherence on Nuclear Spin Transitions of Ultracold Polar Molecules in 3D Optical Lattices" on Physical Review Letters.

Mr. Joseph Gais (MPhil in PHY), Eungwang Seo (PhD student in PHY), Prof. Tjonnie G.F. Li et al. published an article "Inferring the Intermediate-mass Black Hole Number Density from Gravitational-wave Lensing Statistics" on The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Prof. Ren-Bao Liu, Prof. Quan Li et al. published an article "Revealing Capillarity in AFM Indentation of Cells by NanodiamondBased Nonlocal Deformation Sensing" on Nano Letters.

Prof. Zhengcheng Gu has been selected for the CUHK Research Excellence Award 2021-22.

Prof. Renbao Liu has been selected for the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme 2022/23 and received grant to support his project "Quantum Nonlinear Spectroscopy - A New Paradigm of Quantum Sensing".

Mr. Ho Yeuk Cheung (PHY 2021, CMC) received the Croucher Scholarship 2022-23.

Mr. Ken K. Y. Ng (PHY 2017, CCC) received the Croucher Scholarship 2022-23. [Photo caption: Ken (right) and his advisor from his thesis defense]

Faces of CUHK Science: Digging Deep to Discover New Destinations - YEUNG Chun Yat Frankie (PHY 2021, CCC)
[Repost by kind permission of Science Faculty.]

Mr. Leif Lui (Physics/Yr 2) received the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2022.

A Hong Kong team led by Prof. Ming Chung Chu contributed to the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment producing the most precise neutrino measurement ever.

Event Horizon Telescope (Dr. Po Kin Leung and Mr. Tin Lok Chan (Physics/Yr 4) are in the collaboration) reveals the first image of the black hole at the Milky Way's heart.

Mr. Jack Yat-long Kwok (Physics/Yr 4) has been selected for the 2022 Joseph Needham PhD Fellowship tenable at the University of Cambridge.

Mr. Shun-Sun Luk (MPhil in PHY), Prof. Hua-bai Li et al. published an article "Velocity Anisotropy in Self-gravitating Molecular Clouds. II. Observation" on The Astrophysical Journal.

Ms. Yao Lu (PhD student in MSE), Ms. Shiu Hei Lam (MPhil in PHY), Prof. Jianfang Wang et al. published an article "All-State Switching of the Mie Resonance of Conductive Polyaniline Nanospheres" on Nano Letters.

Mr. Yat To Tang (MPhil student in PHY) and Dr. Lap Ming Lin published an article "Neutron star oscillations in pseudo-Newtonian gravity" on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Prof. Emily S. C. Ching has been selected for the Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2021.

Prof. Emily S. C. Ching has been selected for the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2021.

Dr. Patrick C.K. Cheong (PhD in PHY), Mr. Alan T.L. Lam (MPhil in PHY), Prof. Tjonnie G.F. Li et al. published an article "Gmunu: paralleled, grid-adaptive, general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in curvilinear geometries in dynamical space-time" on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Dr. Billy K. K. Lee, Prof. Ming Chung Chu and Dr. Lap Ming Lin published an article "Could the GW190814 Secondary Component Be a Bosonic Dark Matter Admixed Compact Star?" on Astrophysical Journal.

Prof. Renbao Liu was selected for the 2022 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, for his outstanding contributions to the field.

Dr. Jianyu Xie (PhD in MSE), Prof. Kwing To Lai, Prof. Swee K. Goh et al. published an article "Fragile pressure-induced magnetism in FeSe superconductors with a thickness reduction" on Nano Letters.

Dr. Haoyuan Bai (PhD in MSE), Ms. Shiu Hei Lam (MPhil in PHY), Prof. Jianfang Wang et al. published an article "A Schottky-Barrier-Free Plasmonic Semiconductor Photocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation in a "One-Stone-Two-Birds" Manner" on Advanced Materials.

Prof. Renbao Liu was elected as a Fellow Member of Optica for 2022, for original contributions to nonlinear and quantum optics and their applications in quantum information technologies.

Prof. Renbao Liu was elected as Fellow of Institute of Physics (UK), 2021.

Miss Sonja On To Choi (Year 4 student) was awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2021.

Prof. Keqing Xia was elected as the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2021.

Prof. Yilin Wu was selected for the CUHK Research Excellence Award 2020-21.

Mr. Xinxin Xia (PhD student in MSE), Dr. Tsz-Ki Lau (PhD in PHY), Prof. Xinhui Lu et al. published an article "Uncovering the out-of-plane nanomorphology of organic photovoltaic bulk heterojunction by GTSAXS" on Nature Communications.

Mr. Junyu Lin (PhD student in PHY), Dr. Junyu He (PhD in PHY), Prof. Dajun Wang et al. published an article "Probing Photoinduced Two-Body Loss of Ultracold Nonreactive Bosonic ²³Na⁸⁷Rb and ²³Na³⁹K Molecules" on Physical Review Letters.

Dr. Jianhua Yang (PhD in MSE), Dr. Jiapeng Zheng (PhD in MSE), Prof. Jianfang Wang et al. published an article "Plasmon-Enhanced, Self-Traced Nanomotors on the Surface of Silicon" on Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Dr Qin Minchao, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected for the CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award 2020

An interview with physics alumnus: Mr. SHIU Man Lai, Professor of University of Wisconsin-Madison (from CU Alumni Magazine No. 107)

Physics alumnus, Mr. HO Chun Yan received Outstanding Alumni Service Award (Career Development) 2021 from Science Faculty

Prof. Xinhui Lu published an article "Unveiling the crystalline packing of Y6 in thin films by thermally induced "backbone-on" orientation".

Prof. Jianfang Wang et al. published an article "How to Utilize Excited Plasmon Energy Efficiently" on ACS Nano.

Prof. Xinhui Lu received China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2021 which supports her research project on "X-ray scattering Based Microstructure Studies of Photovoltaic Materials".

Prof. Quan Li was selected for Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in April 2021.

We discovered new route to active matter self-organisation, provides new directions on fabricating self-driven devices and microbial physiology.

An international team of scientists including our physics student discovered the "Heaviest Black Hole Collision" might be a Boson star merger.

11/11/2022

Prof. Quan Li has been selected for the Croucher Senior Research Fellowships 2023-2024, for her excellent research achievements.