Gun‐Yeal Lee

2.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Gun‐Yeal Lee is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Aerospace Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gun‐Yeal Lee has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 19 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Gun‐Yeal Lee's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (24 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (19 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (8 papers). Gun‐Yeal Lee is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (24 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (19 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (8 papers). Gun‐Yeal Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Hong Kong. Gun‐Yeal Lee's co-authors include Byoungho Lee, Jangwoon Sung, Hwi Kim, Seung‐Yeol Lee, Kyookeun Lee, Hansik Yun, Seokil Moon, Jun‐Ho Jeong, Hyeokjung Kang and Jong-Young Hong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Gun‐Yeal Lee

27 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Metasurface eyepiece for augmented reality 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2024 100 200 300 400
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. Metasurface eyepiece for augmented reality
    2018 413 citations Gun‐Yeal Lee, Jong-Young Hong et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Complete amplitude and phase control of light using broadband holographic metasurfaces
    2017 326 citations Gun‐Yeal Lee, Seung‐Yeol Lee et al. profile →
  3. Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides
    2024 143 citations Manu Gopakumar, Gun‐Yeal Lee et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gun‐Yeal Lee South Korea 18 1.3k 724 673 498 341 29 1.7k
Haowen Liang China 17 816 0.6× 393 0.5× 449 0.7× 339 0.7× 479 1.4× 91 1.5k
Xinan Liang Singapore 15 562 0.4× 309 0.4× 433 0.6× 236 0.5× 307 0.9× 65 1.1k
Su Xu China 29 960 0.8× 443 0.6× 524 0.8× 765 1.5× 242 0.7× 97 2.2k
Joohoon Kim South Korea 35 2.2k 1.7× 1.2k 1.6× 1.0k 1.5× 797 1.6× 323 0.9× 70 2.9k
Zhongyang Li China 23 1.4k 1.1× 739 1.0× 636 0.9× 556 1.1× 215 0.6× 73 1.8k
Junhwa Seong South Korea 20 1.1k 0.8× 572 0.8× 503 0.7× 418 0.8× 129 0.4× 31 1.4k
Qiling Deng China 18 372 0.3× 196 0.3× 448 0.7× 612 1.2× 258 0.8× 98 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gun‐Yeal Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gun‐Yeal Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gun‐Yeal Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gun‐Yeal Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gun‐Yeal Lee 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 Gun‐Yeal Lee. Gun‐Yeal Lee 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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Kim, Youngjin, et al.. (2025). End‐to‐End Optimization of Metalens for Broadband and Wide‐Angle Imaging. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(9). 9 indexed citations
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Kim, Changhyun, et al.. (2024). Freeform metasurface color router for deep submicron pixel image sensors. Science Advances. 10(22). eadn9000–eadn9000. 27 indexed citations
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Gopakumar, Manu, Gun‐Yeal Lee, Suyeon Choi, et al.. (2024). Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides. Nature. 629(8013). 791–797. 143 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gopakumar, Manu, Gun‐Yeal Lee, Suyeon Choi, et al.. (2024). Full-color 3D Holographic Augmented-Reality Displays with Metasurface Waveguides. FW7A.1–FW7A.1. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Youngjin, et al.. (2024). Metasurface folded lens system for ultrathin cameras. Science Advances. 10(44). eadr2319–eadr2319. 11 indexed citations
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, et al.. (2023). Dispersion-Engineered Metasurface Doublet Design for Broadband and Wide-Angle Operation in the Visible Range. IEEE photonics journal. 15(4). 1–9. 4 indexed citations
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Lee, Byoungho, et al.. (2022). Metasurface for imaging and AR/VR devices. 4–4. 1 indexed citations
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Sung, Jangwoon, Gun‐Yeal Lee, Chulsoo Choi, Jongwoo Hong, & Byoungho Lee. (2020). Polarization-dependent asymmetric transmission using a bifacial metasurface. Nanoscale Horizons. 5(11). 1487–1495. 22 indexed citations
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, Jangwoon Sung, & Byoungho Lee. (2020). Metasurface optics for imaging applications. MRS Bulletin. 45(3). 202–209. 33 indexed citations
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Sung, Jangwoon, Gun‐Yeal Lee, Chulsoo Choi, Jongwoo Hong, & Byoungho Lee. (2019). Single‐Layer Bifacial Metasurface: Full‐Space Visible Light Control. Advanced Optical Materials. 7(8). 35 indexed citations
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, Jangwoon Sung, & Byoungho Lee. (2019). Recent advances in metasurface hologram technologies (Invited paper). ETRI Journal. 41(1). 10–22. 62 indexed citations
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Moon, Seokil, Chang‐Kun Lee, Seung‐Woo Nam, et al.. (2019). Augmented reality near-eye display using Pancharatnam-Berry phase lenses. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6616–6616. 58 indexed citations
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Lee, Byoungho, Gun‐Yeal Lee, & Jong-Young Hong. (2019). Metasurface Devices for AR/VR. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 8. AM4K.2–AM4K.2. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Changhyun, Gun‐Yeal Lee, & Byoungho Lee. (2018). Multiwavelength achromatic meta-lens based on multi-focal phase profile. 30aCJ5–30aCJ5.
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, Jong-Young Hong, Soonhyoung Hwang, et al.. (2018). Metasurface eyepiece for augmented reality. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4562–4562. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, Hyeonsoo Park, Kyookeun Lee, et al.. (2017). Compact Generation of Airy Beams with C‐Aperture Metasurface. Advanced Optical Materials. 5(10). 89 indexed citations
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Kim, Hyuntai, Jinseob Kim, Yohan Lee, et al.. (2017). Metallic Fresnel zone plate implemented on an optical fiber facet for super-variable focusing of light. Optics Express. 25(24). 30290–30290. 33 indexed citations
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Lee, Gun‐Yeal, Seung‐Yeol Lee, Hansik Yun, et al.. (2016). Near-field focus steering along arbitrary trajectory via multi-lined distributed nanoslits. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 33317–33317. 14 indexed citations
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Lee, Seung‐Yeol, Jongwoo Hong, Kyookeun Lee, et al.. (2016). A double‐lined metasurface for plasmonic complex‐field generation. Laser & Photonics Review. 10(2). 299–306. 38 indexed citations
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Lee, Seung‐Yeol, Gun‐Yeal Lee, & Byoungho Lee. (2015). Plasmonic Directional Beam Switching With Tilted Nanoslit Array Surrounded By Gratings. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 34(4). 1368–1372. 5 indexed citations

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