Light People: Professor Che Ting Chan, curiosity drives to create the impossibilities
Tingting Sun, Ying Xiong

TL;DR
This paper discusses Professor Che Ting Chan's work on metamaterials, which can achieve physical properties not found in natural materials, such as invisibility and perfect absorption.
Contribution
The paper highlights Professor Che Ting Chan's theoretical research on metamaterials and their unique physical properties.
Findings
Metamaterials can exhibit properties like invisibility and negative refraction.
Professor Che Ting Chan has modulated light and acoustic waves using metamaterials.
Metamaterials are considered a major scientific breakthrough of the 21st century.
Abstract
“When something is said to be impossible, there are two points for researchers to initially clarify: whether it really is forbidden by the laws of nature; or whether it is simply that no material that currently exists in nature can do that.” Metamaterials are such magical beings, which have physical properties like invisibility, negative refraction, super-resolution, and perfect absorption that are absent from natural materials. It has been rated by Science as one of the top ten scientific and technological breakthroughs affecting human beings in the 21st century. In this issue of Light People, we spoke with a “magic” creator, Professor Che Ting Chan, the Associate Vice-President (Research & Development) of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has researched a number of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAcoustic Wave Phenomena Research · Topological Materials and Phenomena · Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
