KUOK Meng Hau

Professor of Physics
Deputy Head of Department (Resources)

• Investigations of spin dynamics, acoustic dynamics of nanostructures, ferroelectric/ferroelastic phase transitions, etc using laser light scattering spectroscopy (Brillouin and Raman).

• Micro-Brillouin scattering from a single isolated nanosphere . Y. Li, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, Z. Wang, M. H. Kuok, E. Vekris,V. Kitaev, F.C. Peiris and G. A. Ozin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 023112 (2006).

• Spin waves in nickel nanorings of large aspect ratio. Z. K. Wang, H. S. Lim, H. Y. Liu, S. C. Ng, M. H. Kuok, L. L. Tay, D. J. Lockwood, M. G. Cottam, K. L. Hobbs, P. R. Larson, J. C. Keay, G. D. Lian and M. B. Johnson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94,137208 (2005).

• Brillouin study of the quantization of acoustic modes in nanospheres . M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu and Z. K. Wang, Phys. Rev.Lett. 90, 255502 (2003). Featured as article entitled “Music of the Spheres” in of Physical Review Focus, Vol. 11 (2003).

• Spin wave quantization in ferromagnetic nickel nanowires. Z. K. Wang, M. H. Kuok, S. C. Ng, D. J. Lockwood, M. G. Cottam, K. Nielsch, R. B. Wehrsphon and U. Gosele, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 027201 (2002).

• Hypersonic frequency and damping anomalies in relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Zn 1/3Nb 2/3)O 3 . M. H. Kuok, S. C. Ng, H. J. Fan, M. Iwata and Y. Ishibashi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1727 (2001).