Zhi Hong Hang

Zhi Hong Hang is a professor at School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University. He also serves as the executive director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Soochow University and Associated Dean of School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University. His research interests are in the field of light matter interactions, focusing on the experimental investigations on artificial microstructure design to control light propagations and classical wave demonstrations to condensed matter physics.

Theoretical, Simulation and experimental researches on:

Photonic topological insulators

Photonic/phononic crystals

Metamaterials 

and Light induced force.

Current research interest focuses on:

Using classical platform to demonstrate intriguing topological physics properties;

Application oriented designs using artificial microstructures;

Customized sound proof and vibrational free devices

Physics in Movies: Freshman Tutorail Course, every Fall semester

Electrodynamics (in English): undergraduate major core course for Physics major, Somophore Spring semester

Advanced Electrodynamics: graduate major course

Selected Publications：

Classical Platform to demonstrate Topology Properties

Y. Yang, Y. F. Xu, T. Xu, H.-X. Wang, J.-H. Jiang, X. Hu*, and Z. H. Hang*, Visualization of a Unidirectional Electromagnetic Waveguide Using Topological Photonic Crystals Made of Dielectric Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217401 (2018)

Y. Yang, Z. Jia, Y. Wu, R.-C. Xiao, Z. H. Hang*, H. Jiang* and X.C. Xie, Gapped topological kink states and topological corner states in honeycomb lattice, Science China, 65, 531 (2020)

Y. Yang, D. J. Zhu, Z. H. Hang* and Y. D. Chong*, "Observation of antichiral edge states in a circuit lattice" , Science China: Physcs, Mechnics & Astronomy 64, 257011 (2021)

Using photonic crystal eigenstate to achieve effective parameters

X. Q. Huang^, Y. Lai^, Z. H. Hang^, H. H. Zheng and C. T. Chan*, Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials, Nature Materials 10, 682-586 (2011)

J. Luo, Y. Yang, Z. Yao, W. Lu, B. Hou, Z. H. Hang*, C. T. Chan and Y. Lai*, “Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223901 (2016)

H. Chu, Q. Li, B. Liu, J. Luo, S. Sun*, Z. H. Hang*, L. Zhou and Y. Lai*, “A Hybrid Invisibility cloak based on integration of transparent metasurfaces and zero- index materials”, Light: Science & Applications 7, 50 (2018)

J. Luo, B. Liu, Z. H. Hang* and Y. Lai*, “Coherent Perfect Absorption via photonic Doping of Zero-index Media”, Laser Photonics Rev. 180001 (2018)

T. Xu, A. Fang, Z. Jia, L. L. Ji and Z. H. Hang*, “Realization of a complementary medium using dielectric photonic crystals”, Opt. Lett. (42) 4909 (2017) 

Metamaterial desings to explore intriguing properties

F. Liu, T. Xu, S. Wang, Z. H. Hang* and J. Li*, “Polarization Beam Splitting with Gauge-Field Metamaterials”, Adv. Opt. Mat. 180158 (2019)

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

C. Liu , J. Shi ,W. Zhao, X. Zhou, C. Ma, R. Peng, M.Wang ,Z. H. Hang, X. Liu, J. Christensen, N. X. Fang * and Y. Lai*,"Three-Dimensional Soundproof Acoustic Metacage", Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 084301 (2021)

J. Zhang, H. Li, T. Xu, J. Wu, S. Zhou, Z. H. Hang*, X. Zhang*, Z Yang*, "Homogeneous silver nanoparticles decorated 3D carbon nanotube sponges as flexible high-performance electromagnetic shielding composite materials" , Carbon 165, 404 (2020)

( ^: equal contribution, *: corresponding author)