Prof C.T. Chan received his BSc degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1980 and his PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He joined HKUST in 1995. He is currently a Chair Professor of Physics at HKUST and was the Executive Director of HKUST Institute for Advanced Study between 2012 and 2017. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1996. He received the Achievement in Asia Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (2000) and Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2010). He received the Michael Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching at HKUST (1999) and is a co-recipient of Brillouin Medal (2013). His primary research interest is the theory and simulation of material properties. He is now working on the theory a variety of advanced materials, including photonic crystals, metamaterials and nano-materials.

Representative Publications

• “Lateral optical force on chiral particles near a surface”, S. B. Wang and C. T. Chan, Nature Commun. 5, 3307 (2014).

• "Arbitrary Control of Electromagnetic Flux in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media with Near-Zero Index" J. Luo, W.X. Lu, Z.H. Hang, H.Y. Chen, B. Hou, Y. Lai and C. T. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073903 (2014).
   

• "Measurement of Enhanced Radiation Force on a Parallel Metallic-Plate System in the Microwave Regime" Z. Marcet, Z.H. Hang, S.B. Wang, J. Ng, C. T. Chan and H. B. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 045504 (2014).
   

• "Optical pulling force" J. Chen, J. Ng, Z. Lin, and C. T. Chan, Nature Photonics 9, 531 (2011).
   

• "Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero refractive index” X. Huang, Y. Lai, Z. H. Hang, H. Zheng, and C. T. Chan, Nature Materials 10, 582 (2011).
   

• "Transformation optics and metamaterials" H.Y. Chen, C.T. Chan, P. Sheng Nature Materials 9, 387 (2010).
   

• “Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell” Y. Lai, H. Chen, Z.Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 093901 (2009).
   

• “Illusion optics: The optical transformation of an object into another object” Y. Lai, J. Ng, H. Chen, D.Z. Han, J.J. Xiao, Z.Q. Zhang, and C.T. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253902 (2009).

• "Diamagnetic response of metallic photonic crystals at infrared and visible frequencies", X.H. Hu and C.T. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223901 (2006).
   

• "Refraction of water waves by periodic cylinder arrays", X.H. Hu and C.T. Chan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 154501 (2005).

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