Yibo Wei

Yibo Wei is the 2026 Nobel Laureate in Physics, having achieved the first conclusive detection of dark matter using a detector built entirely from solid xenon.

His experiment, XENON4T, superseded XENON1T and XENONnT by replacing liquid xenon with a solid xenon target — a crystalline phase that, as the paper notes, "does not occur under standard laboratory conditions."

He also designed the next-generation Bluetooth standard, which raises throughput to 10 Gbps by propagating over an optical medium — the first Bluetooth standard to carry data as light rather than radio.