Chao Meng

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Chao Meng is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chao Meng has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 50 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 49 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chao Meng's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (28 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (20 papers). Chao Meng is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (28 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (20 papers). Chao Meng collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and United States. Chao Meng's co-authors include Limin Tong, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Fei Ding, Yao Xiao, Bigeng Chen, Hongqing Wang, Wei-Tao Liu, Paul C. V. Thrane, Wei Fang and Yingxin Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chao Meng

119 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrafast All-Optical Graphene Modulator 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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. Ultrafast All-Optical Graphene Modulator
    2014 596 citations Chao Meng et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chao Meng China 30 1.9k 1.3k 1.3k 831 640 127 3.4k
Huihui Lu China 36 2.8k 1.5× 1.4k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 725 0.9× 623 1.0× 188 4.0k
Sui Yang United States 28 1.1k 0.6× 869 0.7× 779 0.6× 596 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 90 2.8k
Manfred Eich Germany 31 1.5k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 711 0.6× 1.7k 2.1× 1.1k 1.6× 131 3.9k
Paolo Biagioni Italy 30 1.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 2.9k 2.3× 2.1k 2.5× 638 1.0× 109 4.3k
Xiaoyang Duan Germany 22 589 0.3× 892 0.7× 1.8k 1.4× 2.0k 2.4× 530 0.8× 34 3.2k
Ivan D. Rukhlenko Australia 36 1.8k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 1.9k 2.3× 1.6k 2.6× 184 4.6k
Iam Choon Khoo United States 31 1.1k 0.6× 2.3k 1.8× 1.3k 1.0× 2.6k 3.2× 519 0.8× 127 3.8k
Mengkun Liu United States 14 1.2k 0.6× 503 0.4× 856 0.7× 998 1.2× 440 0.7× 25 2.3k
Frank Neubrech Germany 34 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 3.3k 2.6× 3.2k 3.8× 707 1.1× 71 4.7k
Andong Wang China 29 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 382 0.5× 552 0.9× 127 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chao Meng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chao Meng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chao Meng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chao Meng 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 Chao Meng. Chao Meng 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
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Meng, Chao, Zhonglin Xie, Fanfan Lu, et al.. (2025). Fiber Vector Light-Field-Based Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Nano Letters. 25(6). 2112–2117. 4 indexed citations
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Gui, Lili, Paul C. V. Thrane, Yueqin Xu, et al.. (2025). MEMS‐Tunable Bilayer Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Dynamic Vortex Wave Plates. Laser & Photonics Review. 20(1).
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Meng, Chao, Zhonglin Xie, Fanfan Lu, et al.. (2025). Breaking the Electric-Dipole Selection Rule via a Plasmonic Nanocavity Excited by a k-Space Filter-Assisted Radial Vector Beam. ACS Photonics. 12(5). 2331–2336. 1 indexed citations
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Kan, Yinhui, Paul C. V. Thrane, Shailesh Kumar, et al.. (2025). Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources. Nature Photonics. 19(9). 960–967. 1 indexed citations
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Ding, Fei, Yadong Deng, Chao Meng, Paul C. V. Thrane, & Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi. (2024). Electrically tunable topological phase transition in non-Hermitian optical MEMS metasurfaces. Science Advances. 10(5). eadl4661–eadl4661. 30 indexed citations
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Meng, Chao, et al.. (2024). MEMS-tunable topological bilayer metasurfaces for reconfigurable dual-state phase control. Optica. 11(11). 1556–1556. 13 indexed citations
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Deng, Yadong, et al.. (2024). Rotation-induced plasmonic chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum. Photonics Research. 13(1). 69–69. 5 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shailesh, Yinhui Kan, Chao Meng, et al.. (2023). Multiple channelling single-photon emission with scattering holography designed metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 14(1). 29 indexed citations
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Liu, Chao, et al.. (2023). Amorphous Germanium Nanomaterials as High‐Performance Anode for Lithium and Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(11). 15 indexed citations
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Meng, Chao, Dongmei Han, Shan Ren, et al.. (2022). Crosslinked Polybenzimidazoles Containing Functional CrosslinkersAs High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membranes: Enhanced Strength and Conductivity. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(2). 24502–24502. 12 indexed citations
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Meng, Chao, Paul C. V. Thrane, Fei Ding, & Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi. (2022). Full-range birefringence control with piezoelectric MEMS-based metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2071–2071. 63 indexed citations
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Wu, Cuo, Shailesh Kumar, Chao Meng, et al.. (2022). Quantum Hybrid Plasmonic Nanocircuits for Versatile Polarized Photon Generation. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(6). 5 indexed citations
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Meng, Chao, Paul C. V. Thrane, Fei Ding, et al.. (2021). Dynamic piezoelectric MEMS-based optical metasurfaces. Science Advances. 7(26). 123 indexed citations
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Wang, Heng, et al.. (2021). Extracting epsilon-near-zero wavelength of ultrathin plasmonic film. Applied Optics. 60(31). 9774–9774. 5 indexed citations
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Deng, Yadong, Cuo Wu, Chao Meng, et al.. (2021). Dual‐Functional Optical Waveplates Based on Gap‐Surface Plasmon Metasurfaces. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(11). 28 indexed citations
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Ding, Fei, R. Deshpande, Chao Meng, & Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi. (2020). Metasurface-enabled broadband beam splitters integrated with quarter-wave plate functionality. Nanoscale. 12(26). 14106–14111. 51 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wending, Fanfan Lu, Lu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Second-order surface optical nonlinear response of plasmonic tip axially excited via ultrafast vector beams. Applied Physics Express. 13(3). 32002–32002. 2 indexed citations
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Meng, Chao, Shiwei Tang, Fei Ding, & Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi. (2020). Optical Gap-Surface Plasmon Metasurfaces for Spin-Controlled Surface Plasmon Excitation and Anomalous Beam Steering. ACS Photonics. 7(7). 1849–1856. 40 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaowei, Chenlei Pang, Yaoguang Ma, et al.. (2019). Si 3 N 4 waveguide platform for label-free super-resolution imaging: simulation and analysis. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(28). 284002–284002. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lu, Wending Zhang, Fanfan Lu, et al.. (2019). Azimuthal vector beam exciting silver triangular nanoprisms for increasing the performance of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Photonics Research. 7(12). 1447–1447. 16 indexed citations

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