Members

STATE KEY LABORATORY OF OPTICAL QUANTUM MATERIALS

光量子物質全國重點實驗室

Director

Xiang Zhang

Director

Professor Xiang Zhang is HKU’s President and Vice-Chancellor. He is the sixteenth leader appointed to this role, beginning in July 2018.
Born in Nanjing in China’s Jiangsu province, he credits his parents for embedding discovery and divergent thinking at the center of his learning experience. XLab, his team of students, researchers, and visiting scientists, was so named “not because we’re mutants, but because we’re searched deeply for non-traditional research topics”, he says. “X stands for explore, for experiment, and for excellence.”
A world leader in nanophotonics and material physics, Professor Zhang developed the first optical superlens — breaking the diffraction limit and transforming understanding of imaging technology. He also pioneered the field of plasmonic lithography with important implications for microelectronics and data storage. Notably, he invented the world’s first optical “invisibility cloak”, achieving a historic leap from imagination to reality. This earned him a place on TIME’s “Top 10 Scientific Discoveries” of 2008 alongside NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander and China’s first spacewalk.
Professor Zhang sees his role not only as President and Vice-Chancellor, but as “mentor, colleague, and friend”. He is committed to fostering an intellectually vibrant landscape at HKU that is underpinned by curiosity, critical thinking, and compassionate values. This, he says, will allow students, staff, and faculty to thrive together in a new and complex global century.
Among others, he is a recipient of the Fitzroy Medal, Julius Springer Prize, Max Born Award, and the Eringen Medal which includes five Nobel laureates among its past winners. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and an elected foreign member of organizations including the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academia Sinica.

Chao Xiang

向超

Silicon Photonics
Semiconductor Lasers
Photonic Integrated Circuits
Heterogeneous Integration

Research

STATE KEY LABORATORY OF OPTICAL QUANTUM MATERIALS

光量子物質全國重點實驗室

Director

Xiang Zhang

Members

Chao Xiang

Che Ting Chan

Dangyuan Lei

Din Ping Tsai

Dong-Keun Ki

Han Wang

Jiannong Wang

Maohai Xie

Mingxin Huang

Wendi Li

Nick (Nicholas Xuanlai) Fang

Ning Wang

Sen Yang

Shizhong Zhang

Shuang Zhang

Shunqing Shen

Tengteng Chen

Tran Trung Luu

Wang Yao

Xi Dai

Xiang Zhang

Xiaobo Yin

Xiaodong Cui

Yang Lu

Yi Yang

Zhendong Zhang

Zhong Wan

Zi Yang Meng