WAVE FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS Novel Wave Functional Materials for Manipulating Light and Sound (PC: Prof. Che Ting CHAN; Co-PIs: Profs. Ping SHENG, Penger TONG, Ho Bun CHAN, Wing Yim TAM, Weijia WEN, Kam Shing WONG, Zhiyu YANG) This Areas of Excellence (AoE) project aims to set up an inter-disciplinary research platform to generate fundamental knowledge and innovation in the field of wave functional materials, by designing, fabricating, and characterizing new materials that can manipulate light waves, sound waves, and other types of waves in ways that are not possible with conventional materials. The research team explore the potential applications of these new materials, some of which can be used for the development of advanced devices, such as lenses, filters, and sensors. Some materials, such as super-absorbers, can be used immediately in daily applications. The team have also pushed the boundaries of knowledge by observing new physics and phenomena through the realization of photonic and acoustic materials that possess topological and non-Hermitian characteristics. As a result, numerous findings have been published in high-impact journals. 21
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