Di Liang

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
213 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Di Liang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Di Liang has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 208 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 100 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Di Liang's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (192 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (70 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (59 papers). Di Liang is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (192 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (70 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (59 papers). Di Liang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Di Liang's co-authors include John E. Bowers, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Géza Kurczveil, Alexander W. Fang, Günther Roelkens, Brian R. Koch, Richard Jones, Zhihong Huang and Alex Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Di Liang

200 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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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.

Recent progress in lasers on silicon

2010 818 citations Di Liang, John E. Bowers profile →
III‐V/silicon photonics for on‐chip and intra‐chip optical interconnects

2010 397 citations Di Liang et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The perspective of all-silicon photonics and systems 2025 ·APL Photonics ·Yuan Yuan, Yiwei Peng, Stanley Cheung, Xian Xiao, Wayne V. Sorin, Zhihong Huang, Di Liang, Ankur Kumar, Rentao Liu, Yulin Hu, (unknown), Samuel Palermo, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil	0
2	Meeting U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet climate targets with battery electric vehicles and electrofuels 2025 ·RSC Sustainability ·Di Liang, Alexandre Milovanoff, (unknown), Robert De Kleine, James E. Anderson, I. Daniel Posen, Heather L. MacLean	1
3	Future roles of solid-state quantum dot light sources 2025 ·Applied Physics Letters ·Heming Huang, Omar Alkhazragi, Di Liang, Frédéric Grillot	1
4	Silicon Non-Volatile Optical Memory and All-Silicon Photonics 2024 ·Yuan Yuan, Yiwei Peng, Stanley Cheung, Wayne V. Sorin, Zhihong Huang, Di Liang, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil	2
5	Fast and Energy‐Efficient Non‐Volatile III‐V‐on‐Silicon Photonic Phase Shifter Based on Memristors 2023 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·Zhuoran Fang, Bassem Tossoun, Antoine Descos, Di Liang, Xue Huang, Géza Kurczveil, Arka Majumdar, Raymond G. Beausoleil	7
6	Non-volatile materials for programmable photonics 2023 ·APL Materials ·Zhuoran Fang, Rui Chen, Bassem Tossoun, Stanley Cheung, Di Liang, Arka Majumdar	20
7	Low-phase quantization error Mach–Zehnder interferometers for high-precision optical neural network training 2023 ·APL Photonics ·Yuan Yuan, Stanley Cheung, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Yiwei Peng, Yulin Hu, Géza Kurczveil, (unknown), Di Liang, Wayne V. Sorin, Xian Xiao, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil	5
8	Improved frequency comb operation of an InAs/GaAs hybrid multisection quantum dot laser on silicon 2023 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), Heming Huang, Géza Kurczveil, Di Liang, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Frédéric Grillot	2
9	Dislocation Formation and Filtering in III–V Regrowth on GaAs Bonded on Si 2022 ·Crystal Growth & Design ·Eamonn T. Hughes, Mario Dumont, Yingtao Hu, Di Liang, Raymond G. Beausoleil, John E. Bowers, Kunal Mukherjee	2
10	Large-scale and energy-efficient tensorized optical neural networks on III–V-on-silicon MOSCAP platform 2021 ·APL Photonics ·Xian Xiao, (unknown), Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Di Liang, Raymond G. Beausoleil, S. J. Ben Yoo	39
11	Heterogeneous O-Band InAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Optical Amplifier on Silicon 2021 ·Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2021 ·Antoine Descos, Géza Kurczveil, Di Liang, Raymond G. Beausoleil	5
12	50 Gb/s PAM4 Low-Voltage Si-Ge Avalanche Photodiode 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Binhao Wang, Zhihong Huang, Xiaoge Zeng, Di Liang, Marco Fiorentino, Wayne V. Sorin, Raymond G. Beausoleil	4
13	50 Gb/s PAM4 Low-Voltage Si-Ge Avalanche Photodiode 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Binhao Wang, Zhihong Huang, Xiaoge Zeng, Di Liang, Marco Fiorentino, Wayne V. Sorin, Raymond G. Beausoleil	3
14	Sub-mA Threshold 1.3 µm CW Lasing from Electrically Pumped Micro-rings Grown on (001) Si 2017 ·Yating Wan, Justin Norman, Qiang Li, Esther M. John, Di Liang, Chong Zhang, Duanni Huang, Alan Y. Liu, A. Torres, Daehwan Jung, A. C. Gossard, Evelyn L. Hu, Kei May Lau, John E. Bowers	2
15	Silicon-plus photonics 2016 ·Frontiers of Optoelectronics ·Daoxin Dai, Yanlong Yin, Longhai Yu, Hao Wu, Di Liang, Zhechao Wang, Liu Liu	8
16	Low voltage high speed Si-Ge Avalanche Photodiodes 2016 ·International Conference on Photonics in Switching ·Zhihong Huang, Cheng Li, Di Liang, Kunzhi Yu, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil	1
17	Commercial Space Situational Awareness: An investigation of Ground-based SSA Concepts to Support Commercial GEO Satellite Operators 2013 ·Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference ·(unknown), (unknown), S. A. Gregory, János Tóth, Di Liang, (unknown), Susan Kent, R. L. Tjoelker, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	4
18	Integration using the hybrid silicon platform 2009 ·European Conference on Optical Communication ·John E. Bowers, Hui‐Wen Chen, Di Liang, Douglas C. Oakley, A. Napoleone, David Chapman, Chang‐Lee Chen, P Juodawlkis	1
19	Distributed Feedback Silicon Evanescent Laser 2008 ·Optical Fiber Communication Conference ·Alexander W. Fang, Erica Lively, Ying-Hao Kuo, Di Liang, John E. Bowers	2
20	A distributed feedback silicon evanescent laser 2008 ·Optics Express ·Alexander W. Fang, Erica Lively, Ying-Hao Kuo, Di Liang, John E. Bowers	165

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