{"id":7459,"date":"2020-12-29T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=7459"},"modified":"2024-07-31T16:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:12:27","slug":"physics-world-top-10-breakthrough-2020","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/physics-world-top-10-breakthrough-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics World Top 10 Breakthrough 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the highlights in the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Physics World<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> calendar was the announcement of their Breakthrough of the Year, which was made this year on 17 December 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This year\u2019s Top 10 Breakthroughs were selected by a crack team of five\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Physics World<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0editors, who have sifted through hundreds of research updates published on the website this year. In addition to having been reported in\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Physics World<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in 2020, the selections must meet the following criteria:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Significant advance in knowledge or understanding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Importance of work for scientific progress and\/or development of real-world applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of general interest to\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Physics World<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0readers<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Associate Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and his team, who had been chosen by <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Physics World<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019s editorial team as one of the magazine\u2019s \u201cTop 10 Breakthroughs of the Year\u201d for 2020 for their work builds on the discovery of \u201cmagic-angle\u201d graphene \u2013 by using twisted layers of 2D materials to change the behaviour of propagating photons, rather than electrons.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7459 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1205\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Twistronics-to-photons.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Twistronics To Photons\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Twistronics-to-photons.png 1205w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Twistronics-to-photons-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Twistronics-to-photons-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Twistronics-to-photons-768x459.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1205px) 100vw, 1205px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/twistronics-for-photons-brings-tunable-diffraction-free-light-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">EXPANDING TWISTRONICS TO PHOTONS<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Associate Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and an international team of collaborators at the City University of New York, National University of Singapore, Monash University, China University of Geosciences and the University of Texas at Austin, for showing that dispersion- and diffraction-free propagation of light is possible, with a resolution that beats the diffraction limit by more than an order of magnitude, in twisted layers of 2D molybdenum trioxide. Their work builds on the discovery of \u201cmagic-angle\u201d graphene \u2013 <em>Physics World\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/discovery-of-magic-angle-graphene-that-behaves-like-a-high-temperature-superconductor-is-physics-world-2018-breakthrough-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breakthrough of the Year in 2018<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 by using twisted layers of 2D materials to change the behaviour of propagating photons, rather than electrons. Just as the electron version of twistronics has led to a flurry of research on superconductivity and electron states, the new photonics variant has important implications for nano-imaging, quantum optics, computing and low-energy optical signal processing.<\/p>\n<p>To read more: please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/physics-world-announces-its-breakthrough-of-the-year-finalists-for-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/physics-world-announces-its-breakthrough-of-the-year-finalists-for-2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights in the\u00a0Physics World calendar was the announcement of their Breakthrough of the Year, which was made this year on 17 December 2020. This year\u2019s Top 10 Breakthroughs were selected by a crack team of five\u00a0Physics World\u00a0editors, who have sifted through hundreds of research updates published on the website this year. 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