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Perovskite solar cells record highest power conversion: Use of existing industry method brings perovskites a step closer to market adoption July 2020 |
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Topological insulators light the way to photonic applications April 2020 |
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Quantum Scientists in Singapore
A video made for *QUANTUM: The Exhibition* at Science Centre Singapore September 2019 |
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A future colorfully lit by mystifying physics of paint-on semiconductors by Ben Brumfield, Georgia Institute of Technology - March 2018 |
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'Neuron-reading' nanowires could accelerate development of drugs for neurological diseases April 2017 |
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View from...NanoMeta 2017 A question of topology by Oliver Graydon, Nature Photonics11, 146 (2017) |
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Imagining the future of photonics TPI - LUX newsletter (ILLUMINATE)November 2016 (Issue #3) |
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Optical Fibers Light the Way for Brain-like Computing ScienceDailyMarch 2015 |
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Metamaterials: Optical Properties on Demand America Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting March 2015 |
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'Optical Oracle' Could Quickly Solve Complex Computing Problems by Lisa Zyga, Phys.orgMarch 2014 |
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Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies' Opening Cerimony April 2013 |
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New Centre, New Vision by Rachel Won, Nature Photonics 7, 171 (2013) March 2013 |
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CINTRA: A France-Singapore Research Alliance Focus Magazine July 2010 |
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Singapore : A New Research Hub July 2010 |
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Winners of the 2010 Young Scientist Award announced January 2010 |
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“Semiconductor Nanowires for future Electronics and Optoelectronics” September 2009 |
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Future Frontiers September/October 2009 |
Awards and Recognitions
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ICMAT 2019: Walter Wong received a Best Poster Award for “Structural Engineering of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Based on Imidazolium-Type Cations”. |
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IPS Meeting 2019: Salih Yanikgönül received an Outstanding Poster Award for “2D Montecarlo Study of p-n+ and p-i-n+ Silicon Waveguide-based Single-photon Avalanche Diodes for Visible Wavelengths”. |
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October 2018: Cesare Soci was elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), class 2019. Read the announcement. |
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July 2018: Cesare Soci was elected Fellow of the SPIE, class 2019. Read the announcement. |
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IPS Meeting 2017: Bhumika Chaudhary received an Outstanding Poster Award for "Room temperature black phase stabilization of formamidinium and cesium lead halide perovskites by incorporation of bulky organic cation". |
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1st International Meeting on Advances in Quantum Engineering (AQE 2018): Anna Paterova received the Best Paper Award for “Infrared Metrology Using Visible Light”. |
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"Making and Tinkering" 2016: Anthony Jhoni, Jocelyn Chee, Muhammad Luqman and Kaung Koko received the Best Project Award for the Solar Ornithopter Project. Flexible solar cells were integrated on the wings of a robotic ornithopter (a robot that flies like a bird), to improve its authonomy. |
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June 2016: Wang Zilong's PhD thesis on "Plasmon-polaron coupling in conjugated polymers on infrared metamaterials" was selected for the Springer Thesis Award. |
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December 2015: Charles Altuzarra received the Poster Presentation Award for “Sub-diffraction localization of a single photon” at the Nanophotonics in Asia 2015 (Osaka, Japan). |
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September 2015: Daniele Cortecchia received the Materials Horizons Poster Prize at the 1st International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2015) for "(EDBE)PbX4 perovskite white emitting devices". |
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August 2015: Cesare Soci elected among 117 new Senior Members of the SPIE "for their professional experience, their active involvement with the optics community and SPIE, and/or significant performance that sets them apart from their peers." |
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"Making and Tinkering" 2015: B. Kanesh, Ameen Noorul, Lee Ee Wei and Chong Yuk Hang received the Best Project Award for the Space Balloon Project. 2 out of 3 payloads containing video footage, telemetry and spectroscopic data were recovered in Australia after reaching an altitude of ~30 km! https://www.facebook.com/ntuspaceballoon |
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IPS Meeting 2015: Wang Zilong received an Outstanding Poster Award for "Photon polarization dependence of photocurrent in monolayer molybdenum disulphide". |
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Cesare Soci received the 2014 IPS Omicron Nanotechnology Physics Medal and Prize for outstanding physics research. |
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July 2014: Dai Xing sucessfully defended her thesis on "Transport studies in quasi 1D III-V wires, tubes, and Fin structures" and was awarded the PhD. |
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Cesare Soci received the 2014 SPMS Young Researcher Award. |
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e-MRS Spring Meeting 2014: Yin Jun received a Young Scientist Award for outstanding paper on "Ultrafast electron transfer from P3HT to pyridine-capped InP quantum dots". |
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e-MRS Spring Meeting 2014: Paola Lova received a Best Poster Presentation prize for "Hybrid ZnO:polystyrene nanocomposite for all polymer photonic crystals". |
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4th Asian Spectroscopy Conference 2013: Xinyu Chin received a Best Poster Award for "Charge modulation spectroscopy of p-type and n-type polymer FETs". |
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Cesare Soci received the second runner up Prosper.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award 2010 in Sustainable Development (Energy category), for work on "Third generation solar cells". |
Upcoming Events
| Quantum Nanohotonic Materials, Devices and Systems, SPIE Optics and Photonics, 1-5 August 2021, San Diego, US |
| *Third Generation Metamaterials (Metamaterials 3.1), 18-20 August 2021, Cetraro, Italy |
| *Institute of Physics Singapore Annual Meeting (IPS 2020), postponed - new date TBA, Singapore |
Past Events
| Quantum Nanohotonic Materials, Devices and Systems, SPIE Optics+Photonics Digital Forum, 24-28 August 2020 |
| 3rd International Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics Workshop (QTN 2019), 12-14 December 2019, Singapore |
| Quantum Nanohotonic Materials, Devices and Systems, SPIE Optics and Photonics, 11-15 August 2019, San Diego, US |
| Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Nanophotonics, IWANN 2019, 12-14 June 2019, Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Concepts in Nanophotonics (celebrating 75 years of Prof. Boris Lukiyanchuk, scientist and poet), 1 April 2019, Singapore |
| Quantum Photonic Devices, SPIE Optics and Photonics, 6-10 August 2017, San Diego, US |
| “Advanced 2D materials for photonics”, CLEO Pacific Rim, 1-4 Aug 2017, Singapore | Institute of Physics (IPS) Meeting 2017, February 22-24, Singapore |
| International “Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics” Workshop, December 2016, Singapore |
| “III-V and other thin-film solar cells”, PVSEC-26, October 24-28, 2016, Singapore |
| Institute of Physics (IPS) Meeting 2016, March 7-8, Singapore |
| Institute of Physics (IPS) Meeting 2015, March 4-6, Singapore |
| Japan-Singapore International Workshop on Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials, 11-12 December 2014, Singapore |
| NTU-Technion Workshop on Photonics and Nanophotonics, 18-19 May 2014, Singapore |
| META’14, the 5th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 20-23, 2014 |
| “Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials”, ICMAT 2013, 30 June-5 July, Singapore |
| 9th Singapore-China Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 28–29 June 2013 |
| "Organic and hybrid interfaces in excitonic solar cells: from fundamental science to applications", 2013 E-MRS Spring meeting, May 27-31, Strasbourg |
| Institute of Physics (IPS) Meeting 2013, March 4-6, Singapore |
| Workshop on Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Photonics Global Conference 2012, 13-16 December 2012, Singapore |
| NTU-DSI workshop on Nano-optics, Singapore, 9 Jan 2012 |
| Photonics Global Conference 2010, 14-16 December 2010, Singapore - Green Photonics Symposium |