Alan Lien

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Alan Lien is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Lien has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 41 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alan Lien's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (18 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (17 papers). Alan Lien is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (18 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (17 papers). Alan Lien collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Alan Lien's co-authors include Yingxiao Mu, Siwei Liu, Zhenguo Chi, Yi Zhang, Jiarui Xu, Chang‐Cheng Lo, Zhu Mao, Yuan‐Chun Wu, Zhiyong Yang and Yi‐Fan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alan Lien

80 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Intermolecular Electronic Coupling of Organic Units for E... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 200 400 600
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.

  1. Intermolecular Electronic Coupling of Organic Units for Efficient Persistent Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence
    2016 614 citations Zhiyong Yang, Zhu Mao et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Lien China 27 2.8k 2.4k 986 983 626 84 4.1k
Martin Schadt Switzerland 24 1.2k 0.4× 865 0.4× 3.1k 3.1× 416 0.4× 733 1.2× 62 3.8k
Harry J. Coles United Kingdom 27 825 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 2.3k 2.3× 401 0.4× 470 0.8× 84 3.3k
Paul Drzaic United States 21 789 0.3× 1.9k 0.8× 2.0k 2.1× 233 0.2× 498 0.8× 56 3.9k
Heinz‐S. Kitzerow Germany 34 1.2k 0.4× 1.0k 0.4× 3.3k 3.3× 742 0.8× 1.1k 1.7× 175 4.3k
Seiichi Furumi Japan 28 2.0k 0.7× 664 0.3× 978 1.0× 414 0.4× 1.9k 3.0× 85 3.6k
Alexey Bobrovsky Russia 31 2.0k 0.7× 398 0.2× 2.6k 2.6× 501 0.5× 1.0k 1.6× 170 3.6k
Yannian Li United States 30 1.6k 0.6× 446 0.2× 2.1k 2.2× 353 0.4× 889 1.4× 39 3.4k
Shunsuke Kobayashi Japan 35 982 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 3.6k 3.7× 291 0.3× 635 1.0× 243 4.3k
Andrzej Miniewicz Poland 31 1.3k 0.5× 763 0.3× 1.6k 1.6× 130 0.1× 239 0.4× 210 2.9k
L. Nikolova Bulgaria 27 1.3k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 2.1k 2.1× 157 0.2× 302 0.5× 73 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Lien

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Lien

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All Works

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Yang, Zhiyong, Zhu Mao, Xuepeng Zhang, et al.. (2016). Intermolecular Electronic Coupling of Organic Units for Efficient Persistent Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(6). 2181–2185. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Tao, Wenhui Li, Yanhong Meng, et al.. (2015). 51.1: Amorphous Indium‐Gallium‐Zinc‐Tin‐Oxide TFTs with High Mobility and Reliability. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 46(1). 766–768. 6 indexed citations
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Mao, Zhu, Zhiyong Yang, Yingxiao Mu, et al.. (2015). Linearly Tunable Emission Colors Obtained from a Fluorescent–Phosphorescent Dual‐Emission Compound by Mechanical Stimuli. Angewandte Chemie. 127(21). 6368–6371. 81 indexed citations
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Li, Gongtan, Chuan Liu, Chia-Yu Lee, et al.. (2015). Positive gate bias instability alleviated by self-passivation effect in amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 48(47). 475107–475107. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Yan, et al.. (2015). Fringing field-induced monodomain of a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal. Applied Physics Letters. 107(24). 14 indexed citations
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Mao, Zhu, Zhiyong Yang, Yingxiao Mu, et al.. (2015). Linearly Tunable Emission Colors Obtained from a Fluorescent–Phosphorescent Dual‐Emission Compound by Mechanical Stimuli. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(21). 6270–6273. 343 indexed citations
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Liao, Congwei, Junmei Li, Wenjie Li, et al.. (2014). P‐12: A‐Si:H TFT Gate Driver with Shared Dual Pull‐Down Units for Large‐Sized TFT‐LCD Applications. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 45(1). 986–989. 6 indexed citations
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Lien, Alan, et al.. (2014). P‐72: Novel Color Gamut Area Specification. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 45(1). 1255–1258. 2 indexed citations
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Lo, Chang‐Cheng, et al.. (2014). P‐115: A Super Fringe‐Field Switching Pixel Structure with Low Driving Voltage. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 45(1). 1414–1417. 1 indexed citations
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Ni, Shuibin, Hongjing Li, Shuang Li, et al.. (2014). Low-voltage blue-phase liquid crystals with polyaniline-functionalized graphene nanosheets. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2(9). 1730–1730. 30 indexed citations
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Tsai, Ming-Yen, Ting‐Chang Chang, Ann‐Kuo Chu, et al.. (2014). Anomalous degradation behaviors under illuminated gate bias stress in a-Si:H thin film transistor. Thin Solid Films. 572. 79–84. 5 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Norío, et al.. (2010). 37.1: Invited Paper : 3D Technology Development and Human Factor. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 41(1). 518–521. 1 indexed citations
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Cho, Ting‐Yi, et al.. (2010). Fast‐response study of polymer‐stabilized VA‐LCD. Journal of the Society for Information Display. 18(11). 960–967. 16 indexed citations
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Lu, Phoebe D., et al.. (2008). 11.3: A LCD Novel Design for High Contrast Ratio. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 39(1). 133–135. 3 indexed citations
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Lien, Alan, Chao Cai, R. John, E. Galligan, & John S. Wilson. (2001). 16.3″ QSXGA high resolution wide viewing angle TFT-LCDs based on ridge and fringe-field structures. Displays. 22(1). 9–14. 11 indexed citations
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Wright, Steven L., et al.. (2000). Status of TFTLCD Color and Metrology. Color and Imaging Conference. 8(1). 301–304. 2 indexed citations
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Saitoh, Yukito & Alan Lien. (2000). An Improved Azimuthal Anchoring Energy Measurement Method Using Liquid Crystals with Different Chiralities. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 39(4R). 1743–1743. 20 indexed citations
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Yaniv, Z., et al.. (1986). Progress In Two And Three Terminal Amorphous Silicon Switching Devices For Matrix Addressed LeDs. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 617. 16–16. 1 indexed citations

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