Cheng Wang

11.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
286 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Cheng Wang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Wang has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 149 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 89 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Cheng Wang's work include Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (95 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (88 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (86 papers). Cheng Wang is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (95 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (88 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (86 papers). Cheng Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Cheng Wang's co-authors include Marko Lončar, Mian Zhang, Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari, Peter J. Winzer, Maxime Bertrand, S. Chandrasekhar, Xi Chen, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu and Marc Jankowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Wang

265 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators operating at CMOS-compatible voltages

2018 1.7k citations Cheng Wang, Marko Lončar et al. profile →
Ultrahigh-efficiency wavelength conversion in nanophotonic periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

2018 439 citations Cheng Wang, Marko Lončar et al. profile →
Controlling propagation and coupling of waveguide modes using phase-gradient metasurfaces

2017 346 citations Cheng Wang, Marko Lončar et al. profile →
Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

2021 297 citations Cheng Wang, Di Zhu et al. profile →
Observation of a negative electron affinity for heteroepitaxial AlN on α(6H)-SiC(0001)

1994 188 citations Cheng Wang et al. profile →
Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine

2024 116 citations Hanke Feng, Tong Ge et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng Wang China	41	5.1k	5.0k	960	824	808	286	7.9k
Heping Zeng China	42	3.5k 0.7×	5.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	869 1.1×	288 0.4×	409	7.4k
Hiroyuki Takahashi Japan	38	2.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.2×	1.0k 1.1×	695 0.8×	457 0.6×	546	6.7k
Makina Yabashi Japan	53	3.1k 0.6×	2.2k 0.4×	2.7k 2.8×	1.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	531	11.0k
Hong Chen China	51	3.7k 0.7×	4.0k 0.8×	4.5k 4.7×	1.6k 2.0×	662 0.8×	598	11.5k
Robert Schmidt Germany	31	2.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.2×	3.6k 3.8×	1.0k 1.2×	489 0.6×	137	6.0k
Takeshi Ohshima Japan	50	6.9k 1.4×	3.7k 0.7×	5.9k 6.2×	964 1.2×	86 0.1×	670	11.5k
Akihisa Tomita Japan	38	2.5k 0.5×	3.6k 0.7×	762 0.8×	934 1.1×	74 0.1×	195	5.4k
Jie Li China	38	3.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	984 1.2×	117 0.1×	359	6.3k
David B. Newell United States	34	1.2k 0.2×	2.9k 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	842 1.0×	919 1.1×	145	6.4k
Mark J. Kushner United States	68	14.3k 2.8×	3.1k 0.6×	3.5k 3.6×	836 1.0×	380 0.5×	453	17.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Junjie, Cheng Wang, Haitao Yang, et al.. (2025). Lightweight asymmetric C/SiC nanofiber film with conductive-dielectric gradient for adjustable electromagnetic interference shielding. Carbon. 235. 120068–120068. 6 indexed citations

Gao, Kaizhou, Cheng Wang, Kaikai Liu, & Haichang Zhang. (2025). Cyano substituted stilbene-based polymers for OFETs: From p-type to n-type. Dyes and Pigments. 236. 112685–112685. 2 indexed citations

Li, Haochuan, et al.. (2025). Two-stage lithium niobate nonlinear photonic circuits for low-crosstalk and broadband all optical wavelength conversion. APL Photonics. 10(7). 1 indexed citations

Ye, Kaixuan, et al.. (2025). Integrated Brillouin photonics in thin-film lithium niobate. Science Advances. 11(18). eadv4022–eadv4022. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Chunho, Alexander Sludds, Ryan Hamerly, et al.. (2025). Hypermultiplexed integrated photonics–based optical tensor processor. Science Advances. 11(23). eadu0228–eadu0228. 4 indexed citations

Feng, Hanke, Tong Ge, Yaowen Hu, et al.. (2024). On-chip optical vector analysis based on thin-film lithium niobate single-sideband modulators. Advanced Photonics. 6(6). 2 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng, Riming Nie, Yiming Dai, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the inherent stability of perovskite solar cells through chalcogenide-halide combinations. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(4). 1368–1386. 20 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng. (2024). Breaking anisotropy limitations in thin-film lithium niobate arrayed waveguide gratings. Light Science & Applications. 13(1). 209–209. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Zhaoxi, et al.. (2024). Integrated lithium niobate Vernier micro-ring filter with wide and fast tuning capabilities. Optics Express. 32(25). 44272–44272.

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Zhang, Ke, Yikun Chen, Wenzhao Sun, et al.. (2024). Spectral Engineering of Optical Microresonators in Anisotropic Lithium Niobate Crystal. Advanced Materials. 36(17). e2308840–e2308840. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ke, Yikun Chen, Wenzhao Sun, et al.. (2024). Spectral Engineering of Optical Microresonators in Anisotropic Lithium Niobate Crystal (Adv. Mater. 17/2024). Advanced Materials. 36(17).

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Zhao, Jie, Ayed Al Sayem, Haochuan Li, et al.. (2023). Unveiling the origins of quasi-phase matching spectral imperfections in thin-film lithium niobate frequency doublers. APL Photonics. 8(12). 14 indexed citations

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Zhu, Sha, Yiwen Zhang, Yi Ren, et al.. (2023). Waveguide‐Integrated Two‐Dimensional Material Photodetectors in Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate. Advanced Photonics Research. 4(7). 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Feng, et al.. (2023). Theoretical study on on-chip gain characteristics of Er3+ in LiNbO3-on-insulator photonic wire pumped at 980 nm wavelength. Optics & Laser Technology. 167. 109753–109753. 2 indexed citations

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Shao, Linbo, Jingwei Yang, Zhaoxi Chen, et al.. (2022). Systematic investigation of millimeter-wave optic modulation performance in thin-film lithium niobate. Photonics Research. 10(10). 2380–2380. 47 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baoping, Qinfen Gu, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Self-Assembled Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Porphyrin-Ti₃C₂T_x MXene Janus Membrane for Dual-Functional Enabled Photothermal Desalination. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(3). 3762–3770. 142 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaoxi, Ke Zhang, Wing‐Han Wong, et al.. (2021). Efficient erbium-doped thin-film lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers. Optics Letters. 46(5). 1161–1161. 108 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaoxi, Jingwei Yang, Wing‐Han Wong, Edwin Yue‐Bun Pun, & Cheng Wang. (2021). Broadband adiabatic polarization rotator-splitter based on a lithium niobate on insulator platform: publisher’s note. Photonics Research. 10(2). 364–364. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Cheng, Michael J. Burek, Zin Lin, et al.. (2015). Integrated Lithium Niobate Nonlinear Optical Devices. FW1D.1–FW1D.1. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Baozhen, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, et al.. (2005). Investigation of near-collinear degenerated quasi-phase matching optical parametric amplification using PPKTP crystal. Chinese Optics Letters. 3(3). 168–171. 1 indexed citations

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