Research Centres
Research Groups
Advanced Materials, Nanomaterials & Technology
2D Materials
- Graphene, disordered magnetic systems, strongly correlated systems (Antonio CASTRO-NETO)
- Graphene: nanostructure, transistors, biomedical devices (Barbaros OZYILMAZ)
- Light-matter interaction, excitons, charge transport, thin film growth (Goki EDA)
Surface Science
- Surface science, STM, heterojunctions, nanomaterials (Andrew WEE)
- Self-assembly, interface engineering (Chen WEI)
- Surface & interface of semiconducting materials (TOK Eng Soon)
- STM & STS, topological insulators, self-assembly (WANG Xuesen)
Oxides: Superconductivity, Oxide thin films, Magnetic materials
- Heterostructure, superlattices & quantum wells (Ariando)
- Correlated electron system, synchrotron-based characterisation (Andrivo RUSYDI)
- Oxides, ferroelectrics, GMR materials (R MAHENDIRAN)
Nanostructures, Energy
- Hybrid nanostructured materials (SOW Chorng Haur)
Spectroscopies
- Non-linear optics, spectroscopy, optoelectronics (Ji Wei)
Organic Semiconductors: Organic electronic devices
- Organic light-emitting diodes, transistors, solar cells (Peter HO)
Ion Beam Science & Technology
3D Polymeric structures, Biomedical physics, Materials imaging, High resolution RBS (spectrometry), Nuclear microscopy
- Photonics & optics, lithography, imaging (Andrew BETTIOL)
- Proton beam fabrication, lab-on-chip devices (Jeroen Anton van KAN)
- High energy ion beams, materials imaging, micro-machining, x-ray lithography (Mark BREESE)
- Ion-beam analysis, high resolution RBS, nuclear microscopy (Thomas OSIPOWICZ)
Biological & Soft Matter Physics
Molecular motors, biomolecular self-assembly, biopolymer, mechanics and interaction of biomolecules
- Biopolymer Physics (Johan van der MAAREL)
- Nanopore DNA sequencing, nanofluidics, 2D materials (Slaven GARAJ)
- Nanoscale dynamics; interfacial liquids; electron microscopy (Utkur MIRSAIDOV)
- Motor protein biophysics, nanomachinery (WANG Zhisong)
- Genome organization; protein folding; mechanics of biomolecules (YAN Jie)
Theoretical & Computational Physics
Condensed matter physics
- Computational Materials Physics (FENG Yuan Ping & ZHANG Chun)
- Acoustic phonons, spin waves (Paul LIM)
- Material electronic structure & transport properties (QUEK Su Ying)
- Quantum thermal transport, molecular dynamics simulation (WANG Jian-Sheng)
Nonlinear dynamics, Complex systems
- Quantum dynamics & information, cold-atom systems, decoherence theory (GONG Jiangbin)
- Complex networks, complexity science in urban resilience (LAI Choy Heng)
- Discrete-event systems, parallel simulation (TAY Seng Chuan)
Electromagnetics, Acoustics
- Microwave materials, digital sound, psychoacoustics (Bernard TAN)
- Atmosphere and ocean dynamics, image restoration, radar imaging, EM material (LIM Hock)
Astrophysics, Cosmology (General relativity, quantum field theory, black holes, cosmological models)
- General relativity & gravitation (Edward TEO)
- Multi-particle phenomenology, neutrino physics, astronomy (Phil CHAN)
String Theory
- M-theory, string theory, quantum field theory (TAN Meng Chwan)
Quantum Information Technologies
Cold atoms & Molecules, Atom & Ion trapping
- Bose-Einstein condensate measurements, atom interferometery (CHUNG Keng Yeow)
- “Quantum logic” techniques for molecular ions (Dzmitry MATSUKEVICH)
- Quantum degenerate fermions and molecules, laser spectroscopy (Kai DIECKMANN)
- Cavity quantum electro-dynamics, ion-traps, metrology (Murray BARRETT)
Cryptography, Quantum entanglement & Information theory
- Fermionic atoms, neutral dipolar atoms, quantum bits storage, quantum state, quantum process (BG ENGLERT)
- Quantum entanglement, non-classical correlation and quantum computing (Dagomir KASZLIKOWSKI)
- Quantum information, high energy physics, quantum field theory (OH Choo Hiap)
- Bell nonlocality, theory of quantum devices (Valerio SCARANI)
- Geometrical and algebraic methods in quantum systems (Kuldip SINGH)
Quantum optics & Atom-photon interaction Quantum key distribution, entangled states between photons)
- Optical entanglement system (Alexander LING)
- Quantum communication, atom-light interactions (Christian KURTSIEFER)
- Quantum measurement & control, optics (TSANG Mankei)