Jones T. K. Wan's Home Page

• Education
• Position
• Award and Honour
• Research Interests
• Selected Publications
• Address/Telephone no./E-mail

Education

1. BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996
2. MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998
3. PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001

Position

1. 2006-now, Research Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2. 2004-2005, Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3. 2002-2004, Research Associate, Princeton University

Award and Honour

1. The Croucher Foundation Research Fellowship (2001)

Research Interests

1. Condensed Matter Physics
2. Geophysics
3. Optics and photonics
4. Soft matter and complex fluids

Selected Publications

1. Wan JTK, Duffy TS, Scandolo S and Car R
   "First principles study of density, viscosity, and diffusion coefficients of liquid MgSiO3 at conditions of the Earth's deep mantle", submitted to J GEOPHYS RES.
   
   
2. Wan JTK and Chan CT
   "Thermal emission by metallic photonic crystal slabs", Applied Physics Letters 89: 041915, 2006.
   
   
3. Yeung FSY, Xie, FC, Wan JTK, Lee FK, Tsui OKC, Sheng P and Kwok HS
   "Liquid crystal pretilt angle control using nano-textured surfaces", Journal of Applied Physics 99: 124506, 2006.
   
   
4. Wan JTK, Tsui OKC, Kwok HS and Sheng P
   "Liquid Crystal Pretilt Control by Inhomogeneous Surfaces", PHYS REV E 72: 021711, 2005.
   
   
5. Wan JTK, Yu KW, Gu GQ
   "Relaxation of surface charge on rotating dielectric spheres: Implications on dynamic electrorheological effects", PHYS REV E 64 (6): 061501 Part 1, DEC 2001.
   
   
6. Wan JTK, Gu GQ, Yu KW
   "Nonlinear ac response of an electrorheological fluid", PHYS REV E 63 (5): art. no. 052501 Part 1, MAY 2001.
   
   
7. Wan JTK, Yu KW, Gu GQ
   "Dynamic electrorheological effects and interparticle force between a pair of rotating spheres", PHYS REV E 62 (5): 6846-6850 Part B, NOV 2000.
   
   
8. Wan JTK, Yu KW, Sun H
   "Electrostatic Green's function for a small cluster near an interface", PHYSICA B 279 (1-3): 75-77, APR 2000.
   
   
9. Yu KW, Sun H, Wan JTK
   "Electrostatic Green's function for corrugated interfaces", INST PHYS CONF SER 163: 395-398, 1999.
   
   
10. Yu KW, Wan JTK, Law MF, et al.
    "Electrorheological fluids of coated microspheres", INT J MOD PHYS C 9 (8): 1447-1457, DEC 1998.
    
    

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