Abdoulaye Ndao

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Abdoulaye Ndao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdoulaye Ndao has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Abdoulaye Ndao's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (6 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (6 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (4 papers). Abdoulaye Ndao is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (6 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (6 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (4 papers). Abdoulaye Ndao collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Algeria. Abdoulaye Ndao's co-authors include Boubacar Kanté, Abdelkrim El Amili, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Babak Bahari, Felipe Vallini, Li‐Yi Hsu, Jun‐Hee Park, Wei Cai, Yu‐Hwa Lo and Ashok Kodigala and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Physics and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Abdoulaye Ndao

13 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries

2017 568 citations Babak Bahari, Abdoulaye Ndao et al. Science profile →
Symmetry-breaking-induced plasmonic exceptional points and nanoscale sensing

2020 252 citations Jun‐Hee Park, Abdoulaye Ndao et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abdoulaye Ndao United States	8	871	323	306	237	166	16	1.1k
Felipe Vallini United States	14	833 1.0×	268 0.8×	539 1.8×	289 1.2×	84 0.5×	47	1.1k
Wange Song China	14	569 0.7×	391 1.2×	194 0.6×	155 0.7×	151 0.9×	35	862
Subhasish Dutta Gupta India	17	660 0.8×	169 0.5×	280 0.9×	266 1.1×	129 0.8×	63	814
Qibing Sun China	16	627 0.7×	273 0.8×	591 1.9×	197 0.8×	69 0.4×	74	914
Monika E. Pietrzyk United Kingdom	6	366 0.4×	189 0.6×	197 0.6×	231 1.0×	105 0.6×	19	534
Hugo M. Doeleman Netherlands	9	530 0.6×	252 0.8×	370 1.2×	421 1.8×	46 0.3×	12	726
Qingqing Cheng China	15	474 0.5×	398 1.2×	378 1.2×	304 1.3×	66 0.4×	40	928
Abdelkrim El Amili United States	13	847 1.0×	163 0.5×	448 1.5×	168 0.7×	95 0.6×	38	981
Tzuhsuan Ma United States	8	949 1.1×	408 1.3×	321 1.0×	227 1.0×	45 0.3×	9	1.1k
Qi-Tao Cao China	13	1.1k 1.3×	455 1.4×	893 2.9×	591 2.5×	115 0.7×	28	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Abdoulaye Ndao

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Abdoulaye Ndao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Abdoulaye Ndao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Abdoulaye Ndao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Abdoulaye Ndao

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Abdoulaye Ndao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Abdoulaye Ndao. The network helps show where Abdoulaye Ndao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abdoulaye Ndao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Abdoulaye Ndao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Abdoulaye Ndao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Abdoulaye Ndao. Abdoulaye Ndao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

16 of 16 papers shown

Ndao, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2025). Broadband and wide-angle beam deflection enabled by reconfigurable meta-arrays. Optics Letters. 50(22). 6951–6951.

Fedorov, Vladimir V., et al.. (2025). Large Bidirectional Refractive Index Change in Silicon‐rich Nitride via Visible Light Trimming. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(14).

Park, Jun‐Hee, Jeong-Ho Ha, Li‐Yi Hsu, et al.. (2025). Observation of robust subwavelength phase singularity in chiral medium. Advanced Photonics. 7(3).

Bahari, Babak, Li‐Yi Hsu, Si Hui Pan, et al.. (2021). Photonic quantum Hall effect and multiplexed light sources of large orbital angular momenta. Nature Physics. 17(6). 700–703. 87 indexed citations

Park, Jun‐Hee, Abdoulaye Ndao, Wei Cai, et al.. (2020). Symmetry-breaking-induced plasmonic exceptional points and nanoscale sensing. Nature Physics. 16(4). 462–468. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

Ndao, Abdoulaye, Li‐Yi Hsu, Wei Cai, et al.. (2020). Differentiating and quantifying exosome secretion from a single cell using quasi‐bound states in the continuum. Nanophotonics. 9(5). 1081–1086. 78 indexed citations

Bahari, Babak, Li‐Yi Hsu, Si Hui Pan, et al.. (2019). Topological lasers generating and multiplexing large orbital angular momenta. LM3E.3–LM3E.3. 1 indexed citations

Ndao, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2018). Quantification of the Transmission Properties of Anisotropic Metasurfaces Illuminated by Finite-Size Beams. Applied Sciences. 8(10). 2001–2001. 1 indexed citations

Bahari, Babak, Abdoulaye Ndao, Felipe Vallini, et al.. (2018). Non-reciprocal lasing action in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries (Conference Presentation). 45–45. 1 indexed citations

10.

Ha, Jeong-Ho, Abdoulaye Ndao, Li‐Yi Hsu, Jun‐Hee Park, & Boubacar Kanté. (2018). Planar dielectric cylindrical lens at 800 nm and the role of fabrication imperfections. Optics Express. 26(18). 23178–23178. 15 indexed citations

11.

Ndao, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2018). Plasmonless polarization-selective metasurfaces in the visible range. Journal of Optics. 20(4). 45003–45003. 12 indexed citations

12.

Bahari, Babak, Abdoulaye Ndao, Felipe Vallini, et al.. (2017). Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries. Science. 358(6363). 636–640. 568 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Park, Jun‐Hee, Ashok Kodigala, Abdoulaye Ndao, & Boubacar Kanté. (2017). Hybridized metamaterial platform for nano-scale sensing. Optics Express. 25(13). 15590–15590. 12 indexed citations

14.

Ndao, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2015). Transmission properties of slanted annular aperture arrays Giant energy deviation over sub-wavelength distance. Optics Express. 23(9). 11687–11687. 14 indexed citations

15.

Ndao, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2014). Resonant optical transmission through sub-wavelength annular apertures caused by a plasmonic transverse electromagnetic (TEM) mode. Journal of Optics. 16(12). 125009–125009. 3 indexed citations

16.

Belkhir, Abderrahmane, et al.. (2014). SFM-FDTD analysis of triangular-lattice AAA structure: Parametric study of the TEM mode. Optics Communications. 318. 47–52. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact