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Singapore
2026
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Physics
Singapore
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
131
Citations
53071
World Ranking
40
National Ranking
3

Materials Science

D-Index
116
Citations
44767
World Ranking
567
National Ranking
25

Physics

D-Index
135
Citations
56501
World Ranking
473
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Cheng-Wei Qiu is affiliated with the National University of Singapore and conducts research primarily in engineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science. Their work spans several subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics such as metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, orbital angular momentum in optics, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, photonic and optical devices, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, and photonic crystals and applications.

Cheng-Wei Qiu has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Artificial intelligence: A powerful paradigm for scientific research (2021), published in The Innovation
  • Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices (2021), published in Nature Reviews Materials
  • Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena (2020), published in Light Science & Applications
  • Observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum (2023), published in Nature
  • Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum (2022), published in Nature Communications

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Cheng-Wei Qiu has worked extensively with colleagues such as Guangwei Hu, Guoqiang Xu, Ying Li, Andrea Alú, and Joel K. W. Yang.

The scientist's work appears often in high-impact publication venues, with a notable number of papers published in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nano Letters

In the area of book publications, Cheng-Wei Qiu has authored a book titled Thermal Metamaterials published by World Scientific in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface

    Lingling Huang;Lingling Huang;Xianzhong Chen;Holger Mühlenbernd;Hao Zhang

  • Dual-polarity plasmonic metalens for visible light

    Xianzhong Chen;Lingling Huang;Lingling Huang;Holger Mühlenbernd;Guixin Li

  • Electromagnetic reprogrammable coding-metasurface holograms.

    Lianlin Li;Tie Jun Cui;Wei Ji;Shuo Liu

  • Observation of topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted van der Waals bi-layers

    Guangwei Hu;Qingdong Ou;Guangyuan Si;Yingjie Wu

  • Plasmonic Color Palettes for Photorealistic Printing with Aluminum Nanostructures

    Shawn J. Tan;Lei Zhang;Di Zhu;Xiao Ming Goh

  • A Reconfigurable Active Huygens' Metalens.

    Ke Chen;Yijun Feng;Francesco Monticone;Junming Zhao

  • Optical manipulation from the microscale to the nanoscale: fundamentals, advances and prospects.

    Dongliang Gao;Weiqiang Ding;Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas;Xumin Ding

  • Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

    Ying Li;Ying Li;Wei Li;Wei Li;Tiancheng Han;Xu Zheng

  • Spin and wavelength multiplexed nonlinear metasurface holography.

    Weimin Ye;Franziska Zeuner;Xin Li;Xin Li;Bernhard Reineke

  • Experimental demonstration of a bilayer thermal cloak

    Tiancheng Han;Xue Bai;Dongliang Gao;John T. L. Thong

  • Topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted α-MoO 3 bilayers

    Guangwei Hu;Guangwei Hu;Qingdong Ou;Guangyuan Si;Yingjie Wu

  • Machine-learning reprogrammable metasurface imager.

    Lianlin Li;Hengxin Ruan;Che Liu;Ying Li

  • Ultrathin pancharatnam-berry metasurface with maximal cross-polarization efficiency.

    Xumin Ding;Francesco Monticone;Kuang Zhang;Lei Zhang

  • Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum

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  • Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena

    Jungho Mun;Minkyung Kim;Younghwan Yang;Trevon Badloe

  • Recent advances in the spin Hall effect of light

    Xiaohui Ling;Xinxing Zhou;Kun Huang;Yachao Liu

  • Visible-Frequency Metasurface for Structuring and Spatially Multiplexing Optical Vortices.

    M. Q. Mehmood;Shengtao Mei;Sajid Hussain;Kun Huang

  • Full control and manipulation of heat signatures: cloaking, camouflage and thermal metamaterials.

    Tiancheng Han;Xue Bai;John T. L. Thong;Baowen Li;Baowen Li

  • Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials

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  • Advances in Full Control of Electromagnetic Waves with Metasurfaces

    Lei Zhang;Shengtao Mei;Kun Huang;Cheng-Wei Qiu

  • Resolution Enhancement for Inversed Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Under Low SNR via Improved Compressive Sensing

    Lei Zhang;Mengdao Xing;Cheng-Wei Qiu;Jun Li

  • Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams

    Andrey V. Novitsky;Cheng-Wei Qiu;Haifeng Wang

  • Hybrid bilayer plasmonic metasurface efficiently manipulates visible light

    Fei Qin;Lu Ding;Lei Zhang;Francesco Monticone

  • Giant photoluminescence enhancement in tungsten-diselenide-gold plasmonic hybrid structures.

    Zhuo Wang;Zhaogang Dong;Yinghong Gu;Yung-Huang Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuang Zhang
Shuang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Joel K. W. Yang
Joel K. W. Yang Singapore University of Technology and Design
Jinghua Teng
Jinghua Teng Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Baowen Li
Baowen Li Southern University of Science and Technology
Le-Wei Li
Le-Wei Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Qiaoliang Bao
Qiaoliang Bao University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Boris Luk'yanchuk
Boris Luk'yanchuk Lomonosov Moscow State University
He-Xiu Xu
He-Xiu Xu Air Force Engineering University

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