C. T. Chan

52.6k total citations · 25 hit papers
546 papers, 40.3k citations indexed

About

C. T. Chan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, C. T. Chan has authored 546 papers receiving a total of 40.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 382 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 165 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 143 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in C. T. Chan's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (146 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (143 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (86 papers). C. T. Chan is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (146 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (143 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (86 papers). C. T. Chan collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. C. T. Chan's co-authors include Ping Sheng, Huanyang Chen, K. M. Ho, Zhengyou Liu, C. M. Soukoulis, Meng Xiao, Kai‐Ming Ho, Zhiyu Yang, Jensen Li and Xixiang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

C. T. Chan

529 papers receiving 38.5k citations

Hit Papers

Locally Resonant Sonic Materials 1990 2026 2002 2014 2000 1990 2010 2004 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Locally Resonant Sonic Materials
    2000 4.2k citations C. T. Chan et al. Science profile →
  2. Existence of a photonic gap in periodic dielectric structures
    1990 1.8k citations C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Transformation optics and metamaterials
    2010 926 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  4. Double-negative acoustic metamaterial
    2004 892 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  5. Acoustic cloaking in three dimensions using acoustic metamaterials
    2007 775 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  6. Manipulating Electromagnetic Wave Polarizations by Anisotropic Metamaterials
    2007 674 citations C. T. Chan, Lei Zhou et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Topological phases in acoustic and mechanical systems
    2019 596 citations Guancong Ma, Meng Xiao et al. profile →
  8. Photonic band gaps in three dimensions: New layer-by-layer periodic structures
    1994 560 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  9. Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    2001 550 citations C. T. Chan et al. Science profile →
  10. Optical pulling force
    2011 538 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  11. Geometric phase and band inversion in periodic acoustic systems
    2015 518 citations Meng Xiao, Guancong Ma et al. profile →
  12. Focusing of Sound in a 3D Phononic Crystal
    2004 516 citations C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Illusion Optics: The Optical Transformation of an Object into Another Object
    2009 497 citations Yun Lai, C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  14. Photonic Band Gap from a Stack of Positive and Negative Index Materials
    2003 470 citations Lei Zhou, C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. A transferable tight-binding potential for carbon
    1992 463 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  16. Melting line of aluminum from simulations of coexisting phases
    1994 459 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  17. Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell
    2009 453 citations Yun Lai, C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  18. Transformation media that rotate electromagnetic fields
    2007 433 citations C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  19. Experimental Realization of Self-Guiding Unidirectional Electromagnetic Edge States
    2011 432 citations Yin Poo, C. T. Chan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  20. Surface Impedance and Bulk Band Geometric Phases in One-Dimensional Systems
    2014 410 citations Meng Xiao, C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  21. Experimental realization of photonic topological insulator in a uniaxial metacrystal waveguide
    2014 386 citations Wen-Jie Chen, Xiao‐Dong Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  22. Synthetic gauge flux and Weyl points in acoustic systems
    2015 309 citations Meng Xiao, Wen-Jie Chen et al. profile →
  23. Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics
    2023 201 citations Tao Liu, C. T. Chan et al. profile →
  24. Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges
    2022 136 citations Meng Xiao, C. T. Chan et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
  25. Non-Abelian physics in light and sound
    2024 44 citations Guancong Ma, C. T. Chan et al. Science profile →

Peers

C. T. Chan
Comparison fields: 5 of 144
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 20.9k
  • Biomedical Engineering 16.5k
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 14.2k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8.3k
  • Materials Chemistry 7.7k
Replace Martin Wegener with:
Martin Wegener Germany
Cheng‐Wei Qiu Singapore
Ping Sheng Hong Kong
Vladimir M. Shalaev United States
Marin Soljačić United States
Andrea Alù United States
Costas M. Soukoulis United States
Nikolay I. Zheludev United Kingdom
Shining Zhu China
Nader Engheta United States
Martin Wegener Germany View profile →
Citations per field, relative to C. T. Chan
C. T. Chan · 1×
Citations per year, relative to C. T. Chan
C. T. Chan · 1×

Countries citing papers authored by C. T. Chan

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of C. T. Chan'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 C. T. Chan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites C. T. Chan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by C. T. Chan

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by C. T. Chan. 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 C. T. Chan. The network helps show where C. T. Chan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. T. Chan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. T. Chan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. T. Chan 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 C. T. Chan. C. T. Chan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Optical Torques on Dielectric Spheres in a Spin‐Gradient Light Field
2025 ·Laser & Photonics Review ·Haiyang Huang, Pin Chieh Wu, Zeyong Wei, (unknown), (unknown), Xiang Wu, Minghe Jin, Bo Wang, Qinghua Song, (unknown), Xia Wang, Qigang Wang, Tao He, Zhanshan Wang, C. T. Chan, Yuzhi Shi, (unknown)
1
2
High-efficiency vectorial holography based on ultra-thin metasurfaces
2025 ·Advanced Photonics ·Tong Liu, (unknown), Dongyi Wang, C. T. Chan, Lei Zhou
0
3
Photonic Flat Landau Levels Induced by Antisymmetric Nonuniform Pseudomagnetic Fields
2025 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Feifei Li, Biaobing Jin, Huabing Wang, Yin Poo, Wei Chen, C. T. Chan
0
4
Nonlinear Meta-Devices: From Plasmonic to Dielectric
2024 ·Engineering ·Rong Lin, Jin Yao, Zhihui Wang, C. T. Chan, Din Ping Tsai
1
5
Finite barrier bound state
2024 ·Light Science & Applications ·Tao Liu, (unknown), Yicheng Zhang, (unknown), Yun Lai, C. T. Chan, Meng Xiao
6
6
Observation of non-Hermitian boundary induced hybrid skin-topological effect excited by synthetic complex frequencies
2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Ruo-Yang Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Zeyong Wei, Zhanshan Wang, Xinbin Cheng, C. T. Chan
4
7
Spin-Orbit-Locking Chiral Bound States in the Continuum
2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Jiajun Wang, Wenzhe Liu, (unknown), Xinhao Wang, C. T. Chan, Lei Shi, Jian Zi
22
8
Realization of Time-Reversal Invariant Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators
2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·Xiao‐Dong Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wen-Jie Chen, Ruo-Yang Zhang, C. T. Chan, Jian‐Wen Dong
4
9
On-chip integrated exceptional surface microlaser
2023 ·Science Advances ·Kun Liao, Yangguang Zhong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xianxin Wu, Chunhua Deng, Cuicui Lu, Xingyuan Wang, C. T. Chan, Qinghai Song, Shufeng Wang, Xinfeng Liu, Xiaoyong Hu, Qihuang Gong
32
10
Terahertz Silicon Metagratings: High‐Efficiency Dispersive Beam Manipulation above Diffraction Cone
2023 ·Laser & Photonics Review ·Ruisheng Yang, Yuancheng Fan, Wei Zhu, (unknown), (unknown), Heng Wei, Weijin Chen, C. T. Chan, Qian Zhao, Ji Zhou, Fuli Zhang, Cheng‐Wei Qiu
16
11
Experimental demonstration of splitting rules for exceptional points and their topological characterization
2023 ·Physical review. B. ·Yi-Xin Xiao, Jing Hu, Zhao-Qing Zhang, C. T. Chan
6
12
Topology in non-Hermitian Chern insulators with skin effect
2022 ·Physical review. B. ·Yi-Xin Xiao, C. T. Chan
26
13
Effective Hamiltonian for Photonic Topological Insulator with Non-Hermitian Domain Walls
2022 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiaoyong Hu, Yutian Ao, Cuicui Lu, C. T. Chan, Dante M. Kennes, Qihuang Gong
25
14
Shifting beams at normal incidence via controlling momentum-space geometric phases
2021 ·Nature Communications ·Jiajun Wang, Maoxiong Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Fang Guan, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi, C. T. Chan, Jian Zi
46
15
Coexistence of a new type of bound state in the continuum and a lasing threshold mode induced by PT symmetry
2020 ·Science Advances ·Qianju Song, (unknown), (unknown), Chunxiong Zheng, Dezhuan Han, Jian Zi, (unknown), C. T. Chan
63
16
Exceptional nexus with a hybrid topological invariant
2020 ·Science ·(unknown), Xue Jiang, Kun Ding, Yi-Xin Xiao, Zhao-Qing Zhang, C. T. Chan, Guancong Ma
153
17
Optofluidic Microengine in A Dynamic Flow Environment via Self-Induced Back-Action
2020 ·ACS Photonics ·Yuzhi Shi, Tongtong Zhu, Kim Truc Nguyen, Yi Zhang, Sha Xiong, P. H. Yap, Wee Ser, Shubo Wang, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, C. T. Chan, A. Q. Liu
13
18
Product design: Nanoparticle‐Loaded polyvinyl butyral interlayer for solar control
2018 ·AIChE Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Ka Yip Fung, Ka Wai Wong, C. T. Chan, Ka Ming Ng
4
19
Symmetry-protected transport in a pseudospin-polarized waveguide
2015 ·Nature Communications ·Wen-Jie Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Jian‐Wen Dong, C. T. Chan
51
20
1ST PRINCIPLES TOTAL ENERGY CALCULATIONS FOR THE HONEYCOMB MODEL OF THE SQUAREROOT-3 X SQUARE-ROOT-3 AG/SI(111) SURFACE
1989 ·Surface Science ·C. T. Chan, (unknown)
10

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

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Martin Wegener Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Cheng‐Wei Qiu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ping Sheng Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Vladimir M. Shalaev Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Marin Soljačić Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Andrea Alù Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Costas M. Soukoulis Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nikolay I. Zheludev Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shining Zhu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nader Engheta
Rankless by CCL
2026