Hong X. Tang

16.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
214 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Hong X. Tang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hong X. Tang has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 166 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 32 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hong X. Tang's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (139 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (110 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (77 papers). Hong X. Tang is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (139 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (110 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (77 papers). Hong X. Tang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Hong X. Tang's co-authors include Chang‐Ling Zou, Mo Li, Xufeng Zhang, Liang Jiang, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, M. L. Roukes, Xiang Guo, Carsten Schuck, Golden Kumar and Jan Schroers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hong X. Tang

204 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ultra-sensitive NEMS-based cantilevers for sensing, scanned probe and very high-frequency applications

2007 829 citations Hong X. Tang et al. profile →
Strongly Coupled Magnons and Cavity Microwave Photons

2014 818 citations Chang‐Ling Zou, Hong X. Tang et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Nanomoulding with amorphous metals

2009 629 citations Hong X. Tang et al. profile →
Cavity magnomechanics

2016 517 citations Chang‐Ling Zou, Hong X. Tang et al. Science Advances profile →
High-speed and high-efficiency travelling wave single-photon detectors embedded in nanophotonic circuits

2012 328 citations Carsten Schuck, Hong X. Tang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Magnon dark modes and gradient memory

2015 319 citations Chang‐Ling Zou, Hong X. Tang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Optomagnonic Whispering Gallery Microresonators

2016 318 citations Chang‐Ling Zou, Hong X. Tang et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Cavity magnonics

2022 287 citations Babak Zare Rameshti, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy et al. Physics Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hong X. Tang United States	56	9.5k	7.4k	2.1k	1.7k	1.1k	214	11.6k
Karl K. Berggren United States	58	4.7k 0.5×	4.6k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.7×	3.3k 3.0×	262	11.3k
Andreas D. Wieck Germany	54	10.2k 1.1×	5.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	3.0k 2.7×	688	12.9k
Hiroshi Yamaguchi Japan	43	5.1k 0.5×	4.6k 0.6×	463 0.2×	1.4k 0.8×	2.4k 2.2×	433	8.0k
Sai T. Chu Hong Kong	62	9.5k 1.0×	11.2k 1.5×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	898 0.8×	395	13.5k
K. Karraï Germany	42	6.9k 0.7×	4.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	125	8.0k
D. E. Savage United States	38	4.6k 0.5×	3.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	142	6.5k
Takashi Asano Japan	47	9.2k 1.0×	8.6k 1.2×	718 0.3×	3.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.2×	251	11.4k
Roel Baets Belgium	67	12.2k 1.3×	19.0k 2.6×	1.4k 0.7×	3.5k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	735	20.9k
D. Rugar United States	53	11.8k 1.2×	5.7k 0.8×	520 0.2×	4.2k 2.4×	2.8k 2.5×	138	13.9k
Qinghai Song China	56	5.5k 0.6×	5.8k 0.8×	584 0.3×	2.5k 1.5×	2.0k 1.8×	303	10.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Risheng, et al.. (2025). Integrated photonic Galton board and its application for photon counting. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3(2). 156–156.

Xu, Yuntao, et al.. (2025). Fast recovery of niobium-based superconducting resonators after laser illumination. Communications Physics. 8(1).

Xie, Jiacheng, et al.. (2025). Towards terahertz nanomechanics. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8549–8549. 1 indexed citations

Xie, Jiacheng, Mouquan Shen, & Hong X. Tang. (2024). Sub-terahertz optomechanics. Optica. 11(5). 724–724. 5 indexed citations

Lu, Juanjuan, et al.. (2024). Symmetric second-harmonic generation in sub-wavelength periodically poled thin film lithium niobate. Optica. 11(8). 1050–1050. 11 indexed citations

Zhao, Peng, et al.. (2024). Design of a Ku-band broadband circularly polarized magneto-electric dipole antenna for satellite communications. Electromagnetics. 44(5). 267–281. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Hong X., et al.. (2024). Traveling-wave electro-optics for microwave-to-optical quantum transduction. Physical review. A. 109(4). 2 indexed citations

Wang, Sihao, et al.. (2023). Controlling single rare earth ion emission in an electro-optical nanocavity. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1718–1718. 37 indexed citations

Chen, Han, Ning Han, Mingming Zhang, et al.. (2023). Hepatitis B Virus-Encoded MicroRNA (HBV-miR-3) Inhibits FIH-1 Expression to Promote Tumor Angiogenesis in HBV-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Volume 10. 2337–2353. 5 indexed citations

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Rameshti, Babak Zare, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, J. A. Haigh, et al.. (2022). Cavity magnonics. Physics Reports. 979. 1–61. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Ming, Xinxin Hu, Joshua B. Surya, et al.. (2021). Efficient Frequency Conversion in a Degenerate χ(2) Microresonator. Physical Review Letters. 126(13). 133601–133601. 40 indexed citations

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Lu, Juanjuan, Ayed Al Sayem, Zheng Gong, et al.. (2021). Ultralow-threshold thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator. Optica. 8(4). 539–539. 123 indexed citations

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Xu, Yuntao, Ayed Al Sayem, Linran Fan, et al.. (2021). Bidirectional interconversion of microwave and light with thin-film lithium niobate. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4453–4453. 86 indexed citations

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Lu, Juanjuan, Ayed Al Sayem, Zheng Gong, Joshua B. Surya, & Hong X. Tang. (2021). On-chip lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator with micro-watts threshold. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SM4L.5–SM4L.5.

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Cheng, Risheng, John Wright, Huili Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena, & Hong X. Tang. (2020). Epitaxial niobium nitride superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. Applied Physics Letters. 117(13). 33 indexed citations

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Cheng, Risheng, Sihao Wang, Chang‐Ling Zou, & Hong X. Tang. (2020). Design of a micrometer-long superconducting nanowire perfect absorber for efficient high-speed single-photon detection. Photonics Research. 8(8). 1260–1260. 5 indexed citations

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Fong, King Yan, Dafei Jin, Menno Poot, Alexander W. Bruch, & Hong X. Tang. (2019). Phonon Coupling between a Nanomechanical Resonator and a Quantum Fluid. Nano Letters. 19(6). 3716–3722. 7 indexed citations

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Cheng, Risheng, Chang‐Ling Zou, Xiang Guo, et al.. (2019). Broadband on-chip single-photon spectrometer. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4104–4104. 108 indexed citations

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Fan, Linran, Chang‐Ling Zou, Risheng Cheng, et al.. (2018). Superconducting cavity electro-optics: A platform for coherent photon conversion between superconducting and photonic circuits. Science Advances. 4(8). eaar4994–eaar4994. 152 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiang, Chang‐Ling Zou, Carsten Schuck, et al.. (2016). Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip. Light Science & Applications. 6(5). e16249–e16249. 214 indexed citations

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