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- Experimental Condensed Matter and Material Science Group
- Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Group
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- Area of Excellence Project - Theory, Modeling, and Simulation of Emerging Electronics
- Area of Excellence Project - 2D Materials Research: Fundamentals Towards Emerging Technologies
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- Our Recent Achievements
- W.Y. Wang recevied the 2021 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Three undergraduate students, Tan Tixuan, Liu Suying and Jian Tianyi were awarded the winner in PLANCKS Hong Kong Preliminary 2022
- W. Yao received the 2021 Xplorer Prize
- W. Yao received the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) Award 2021-22
- J. Wang's paper has been selected as one of the 50 Milestone papers in the last 50 years of Physical Review B
- W. Yao elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society 2020
- W. Yao received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award 2020
- S.J. Xu, M.H. Xie and collaborators received the Ministry of Education Natural Science award (2nd class)
- Three undergraduate students, Deng Jian Qiao, Wong Hong Tsun and Yeung Ryan Wai-Yen, teamed with two other students from the University of Oxford and Peking University, joined the online International Theoretical Physics Olympiad 2019 and ranked the top 10 out of 88 teams worldwide
- A team of three undergraduate students, Gong Zhengyangguang, Ng Ka Wai and Wong Hong Tsun won a silver medal for the solar sailing problem in The University Physics Competition 2017
- J.C.S. Pun & C.W. So received the 2018 International Dark-Sky Association Dark Sky Defender Award
- J.H.C. Lee received the HKU Outstanding Departmental Safety Representative (DSR) Award
- X.D. Cui received the Outstanding Researcher Award 2016-17
- S.Z. Zhang received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2016-17
- X.D. Cui received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2017
- W. Yao received the Outstanding Researcher Award
- Prof. K.B. Luk and the Daya Bay Collaboration (HKU Members: T. Kwok, M.K.P. Lee, J.K.C. Leung, K.Y. Leung, H. Liu, H.Y. Ngai, C.S.J. Pun, H.C. Wong) received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Why Study Physics at HKU?
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is the oldest and well established university in Hong Kong. HKU students are allowed to major or minor in Physics, option of minor in Astronomy is also available. The available options are very flexible in order to provide the opportunity to students to make the best possible choices ...