Feng Wang

57.2k total citations · 23 hit papers
377 papers, 43.8k citations indexed

About

Feng Wang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Feng Wang has authored 377 papers receiving a total of 43.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 214 papers in Materials Chemistry, 175 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 123 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Feng Wang's work include Graphene research and applications (97 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (68 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (47 papers). Feng Wang is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (97 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (68 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (47 papers). Feng Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Feng Wang's co-authors include Yuanbo Zhang, Alex Zettl, Jonghwan Kim, Y. R. Shen, Giulia Galli, L. Sun, Chi Yung Chim, Tianshu Li, Michael F. Crommie and Çağlar Girit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Feng Wang

363 papers receiving 42.7k citations

Hit Papers

Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2 2005 2026 2012 2019 2010 2009 2011 2011 2014 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2
    2010 7.8k citations Feng Wang et al. profile →
  2. Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene
    2009 2.9k citations Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl et al. Nature profile →
  3. A graphene-based broadband optical modulator
    2011 2.7k citations Feng Wang et al. Nature profile →
  4. Graphene plasmonics for tunable terahertz metamaterials
    2011 2.4k citations Jason Horng, Michael C. Martin et al. profile →
  5. Ultrafast charge transfer in atomically thin MoS2/WS2 heterostructures
    2014 1.9k citations Xiaoping Hong, Sefaattin Tongay et al. profile →
  6. Gate-Variable Optical Transitions in Graphene
    2008 1.3k citations Feng Wang, Alex Zettl et al. profile →
  7. Optical modulators with 2D layered materials
    2016 1.2k citations Zhipei Sun, Feng Wang et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  8. Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics
    2009 1.1k citations Feng Wang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  9. The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons
    2005 954 citations Feng Wang et al. profile →
  10. Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices
    2019 849 citations Emma C. Regan, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama et al. Nature profile →
  11. Direct observation of the layer-dependent electronic structure in phosphorene
    2016 649 citations Diana Y. Qiu, Felipe H. da Jornada et al. profile →
  12. Optical spectroscopy of graphene: From the far infrared to the ultraviolet
    2012 591 citations Feng Wang et al. profile →
  13. Evolution of interlayer coupling in twisted molybdenum disulfide bilayers
    2014 578 citations Kaihui Liu, Ting Cao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  14. Topological valley transport at bilayer graphene domain walls
    2015 509 citations Zhiwen Shi, Hans A. Bechtel et al. Nature profile →
  15. Signatures of tunable superconductivity in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice
    2019 485 citations Hongyuan Li, Kenji Watanabe et al. Nature profile →
  16. Ultrafast dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures
    2018 470 citations Emma C. Regan, Feng Wang et al. profile →
  17. Lewis-Acid-Catalyzed Interfacial Polymerization of Covalent Organic Framework Films
    2018 467 citations Feng Wang et al. profile →
  18. Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene
    2011 453 citations Jason Horng, Alex Zettl et al. Nature profile →
  19. Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals
    2021 254 citations Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li et al. Nature profile →
  20. Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks
    2021 237 citations Feng Wang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  21. Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
    2022 197 citations Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang et al. profile →
  22. Moiré photonics and optoelectronics
    2023 142 citations Feng Wang, Zhipei Sun et al. profile →
  23. Supramolecular assembly of blue and green halide perovskites with near-unity photoluminescence
    2024 95 citations Can Berk Uzundal, Feng Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Feng Wang United States 83 31.8k 17.2k 13.2k 11.9k 7.1k 377 43.8k
N. M. R. Peres Portugal 56 35.5k 1.1× 12.8k 0.7× 20.9k 1.6× 10.8k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 200 44.6k
Albert Polman Netherlands 92 16.8k 0.5× 21.4k 1.2× 10.7k 0.8× 19.4k 1.6× 11.5k 1.6× 411 39.5k
Qiaoliang Bao China 88 21.0k 0.7× 20.2k 1.2× 10.7k 0.8× 11.4k 1.0× 6.6k 0.9× 316 37.6k
U. Gösele Germany 99 26.7k 0.8× 22.4k 1.3× 12.1k 0.9× 15.9k 1.3× 5.2k 0.7× 647 43.2k
A. H. Castro Neto United States 103 56.9k 1.8× 21.8k 1.3× 28.7k 2.2× 13.7k 1.2× 8.6k 1.2× 365 70.7k
Yuanbo Zhang China 42 40.8k 1.3× 17.1k 1.0× 14.6k 1.1× 8.0k 0.7× 5.4k 0.8× 78 46.5k
Alex Zettl United States 118 50.4k 1.6× 19.6k 1.1× 17.9k 1.4× 16.2k 1.4× 9.9k 1.4× 608 69.2k
F. Guinea Spain 98 47.4k 1.5× 14.8k 0.9× 32.6k 2.5× 11.4k 1.0× 7.1k 1.0× 458 61.4k
А. А. Firsov Russia 10 58.5k 1.8× 25.2k 1.5× 17.3k 1.3× 17.6k 1.5× 10.0k 1.4× 35 71.8k
Tony F. Heinz United States 110 52.3k 1.6× 32.1k 1.9× 20.3k 1.5× 12.7k 1.1× 6.9k 1.0× 317 68.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Feng Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Feng Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Feng Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Feng Wang 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 Feng Wang. Feng Wang 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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Zou, Xue, Tongyu Liu, Weihua Liu, et al.. (2025). The effect of Cu on microstructure, mechanical properties and fracture behavior of Al-15 %Mg2Si composite. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1012. 178497–178497. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Feng, Yu Wang, Pan Dai, et al.. (2025). Large-Capacity Interrogation for Ultra-Weak Fiber Bragg Grating Array With a DFB Laser Array Chip. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(17). 8467–8473.
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Uzundal, Can Berk, Qixin Feng, Weichen Tang, et al.. (2025). Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 226–226. 1 indexed citations
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Qi, Ruishi, Zuocheng Zhang, Zhiyuan Cui, et al.. (2025). Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers. Nature Materials. 25(1). 35–41.
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He, Zilong, Wei Yuan, Pan Dai, et al.. (2025). Ultrawideband precise tunable wavelength-locked laser based on high-density integrated distributed feedback laser array. Optics Express. 33(15). 31801–31801.
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Zhang, Xudong, et al.. (2024). Structural, mechanical, electronic and thermodynamic properties of YBC, YB2C, YB2C2, Y2B3C2 intermetallics. Materials Today Communications. 39. 108696–108696. 39 indexed citations
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Liou, Franklin, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Zachary A. H. Goodwin, et al.. (2024). Gate-Switchable Molecular Diffusion on a Graphene Field-Effect Transistor. ACS Nano. 18(35). 24262–24268.
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Ren, Jianxin, Bo Liu, Yaya Mao, et al.. (2024). Chaos key enhanced physical layer secure transmission method based on the convolutional long short-term memory neural network. Optics Express. 32(12). 20515–20515. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Chen, Xudong Zhang, & Feng Wang. (2023). The lattice vibration, mechanical anisotropy, stress-strain behavior and electronic properties of HfxSiy phases: A first-principles study. Vacuum. 212. 112012–112012. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Hongyuan, Shaowei Li, Emma C. Regan, et al.. (2021). Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals. Nature. 597(7878). 650–654. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Tiancong, Salman Kahn, Shaowei Li, et al.. (2021). Visualizing delocalized correlated electronic states in twisted double bilayer graphene. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2516–2516. 38 indexed citations
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Gao, Zhaoli, Sheng Wang, Joel Berry, et al.. (2020). Large-area epitaxial growth of curvature-stabilized ABC trilayer graphene. Nature Communications. 11(1). 546–546. 58 indexed citations
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Wang, Feng & Hayk Harutyunyan. (2019). Observation of a Giant Nonlinear Chiro‐Optical Response in Planar Plasmonic–Photonic Metasurfaces. Advanced Optical Materials. 7(19). 14 indexed citations
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Yong, Chaw‐Keong, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Chin Shen Ong, et al.. (2019). Valley-dependent exciton fine structure and Autler–Townes doublets from Berry phases in monolayer MoSe2. Nature Materials. 18(10). 1065–1070. 45 indexed citations
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Utama, M. Iqbal Bakti, Hans Kleemann, Wenyu Zhao, et al.. (2019). A dielectric-defined lateral heterojunction in a monolayer semiconductor. Nature Electronics. 2(2). 60–65. 111 indexed citations
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Yao, Fengrui, Can Liu, Cheng Chen, et al.. (2018). Measurement of complex optical susceptibility for individual carbon nanotubes by elliptically polarized light excitation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3387–3387. 16 indexed citations
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Shi, Zhiwen, Xiaoping Hong, Hans A. Bechtel, et al.. (2015). Observation of a Luttinger-liquid plasmon in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Photonics. 9(8). 515–519. 115 indexed citations
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Wang, Feng, Jiajia Liu, Liyuan Liu, et al.. (2014). The status and correlates of depression and anxiety among breast-cancer survivors in Eastern China: a population-based, cross-sectional case–control study. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 326–326. 48 indexed citations

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