Joel K. W. Yang

17.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
218 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

Joel K. W. Yang is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel K. W. Yang has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 94 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 91 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joel K. W. Yang's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (74 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (50 papers). Joel K. W. Yang is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (74 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (50 papers). Joel K. W. Yang collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Joel K. W. Yang's co-authors include Karl K. Berggren, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Zhaogang Dong, Huigao Duan, Karthik Kumar, Lei Zhang, Michel Bosman, Hailong Liu, Stefan A. Maier and Qifeng Ruan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joel K. W. Yang

214 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Printing colour at the optical diffraction limit
    2012 803 citations Huigao Duan, Joel K. W. Yang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  2. Graphoepitaxy of Self-Assembled Block Copolymers on Two-Dimensional Periodic Patterned Templates
    2008 702 citations Joel K. W. Yang, Yeon Sik Jung et al. profile →
  3. Plasmonic colour generation
    2016 645 citations Joel K. W. Yang, N. Asger Mortensen et al. profile →
  4. Plasmonic Color Palettes for Photorealistic Printing with Aluminum Nanostructures
    2014 500 citations Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Joel K. W. Yang et al. Nano Letters profile →
  5. Quantum Plasmon Resonances Controlled by Molecular Tunnel Junctions
    2014 375 citations Joel K. W. Yang, Ping Bai et al. profile →
  6. Holographic colour prints for enhanced optical security by combined phase and amplitude control
    2018 274 citations Hailong Liu, Joel K. W. Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Nanophotonic Structural Colors
    2020 249 citations Soroosh Daqiqeh Rezaei, Zhaogang Dong et al. ACS Photonics profile →
  8. Two‐Photon Polymerization Lithography for Optics and Photonics: Fundamentals, Materials, Technologies, and Applications
    2023 217 citations Wang Zhang, Hongtao Wang et al. profile →
  9. Single-shot isotropic differential interference contrast microscopy
    2023 125 citations Xinwei Wang, Hao Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joel K. W. Yang Singapore 60 7.3k 6.6k 4.8k 4.4k 3.6k 218 14.1k
Carsten Rockstuhl Germany 61 8.8k 1.2× 9.8k 1.5× 6.3k 1.3× 5.3k 1.2× 2.8k 0.8× 470 16.8k
Wenshan Cai United States 49 9.6k 1.3× 10.3k 1.6× 5.8k 1.2× 5.8k 1.3× 2.3k 0.7× 116 18.3k
Jonathan A. Fan United States 55 7.0k 1.0× 4.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 3.1k 0.7× 2.2k 0.6× 145 11.3k
Junsuk Rho South Korea 78 7.9k 1.1× 13.4k 2.0× 8.1k 1.7× 5.5k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 442 22.1k
Anatoly V. Zayats United Kingdom 63 13.0k 1.8× 8.9k 1.3× 8.8k 1.8× 6.2k 1.4× 2.1k 0.6× 322 18.1k
Romain Quidant Spain 68 11.6k 1.6× 7.4k 1.1× 8.6k 1.8× 4.2k 0.9× 2.6k 0.7× 198 18.0k
Zongfu Yu United States 62 8.6k 1.2× 5.2k 0.8× 7.3k 1.5× 9.9k 2.3× 4.5k 1.3× 198 21.9k
A. N. Grigorenko United Kingdom 38 11.4k 1.6× 6.8k 1.0× 5.8k 1.2× 6.9k 1.6× 11.5k 3.2× 112 21.4k
L. Jay Guo United States 79 13.8k 1.9× 4.4k 0.7× 6.1k 1.3× 12.3k 2.8× 3.9k 1.1× 423 23.2k
Jinghua Teng Singapore 50 4.9k 0.7× 5.7k 0.9× 4.1k 0.8× 3.8k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 285 10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel K. W. Yang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Kaixuan, Xiao Deng, Wan‐Ling Liu, et al.. (2025). Surface Energy‐Confined Multi‐Layer Inkjet Printing for Customizable Optical Microstructures. Advanced Materials. 37(50). e09818–e09818. 1 indexed citations
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Rahman, M. A., Syed Akhil, Emek G. Durmusoglu, et al.. (2025). Tunable Multiresonant Microcavity Exciton-Polaritons in Colloidal Quantum Wells. Nano Letters. 25(15). 6109–6116. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, Chengfeng Pan, Chi Li, et al.. (2024). Two-photon polymerization lithography for imaging optics. International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing. 6(4). 42002–42002. 45 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xiaoyan, Hongtao Wang, Hao Wang, et al.. (2024). Arbitrary engineering of spatial caustics with 3D-printed metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3719–3719. 16 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongtao, Hao Wang, Qifeng Ruan, et al.. (2023). Coloured vortex beams with incoherent white light illumination. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(3). 264–272. 68 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinwei, Hao Wang, Jinlu Wang, et al.. (2023). Single-shot isotropic differential interference contrast microscopy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2063–2063. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mori, Tomohiro, Hao Wang, Wang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Pick and place process for uniform shrinking of 3D printed micro- and nano-architected materials. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5876–5876. 24 indexed citations
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Dmitriev, Pavel, Lu Ding, Zhenying Pan, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Dielectric-Plasmonic Nanoantenna with Multiresonances for Subwavelength Photon Sources. ACS Photonics. 10(3). 582–594. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Hailong, Hailong Liu, Hongtao Wang, et al.. (2022). High-Order Photonic Cavity Modes Enabled 3D Structural Colors. ACS Nano. 16(5). 8244–8252. 55 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wang, Hao Wang, Hongtao Wang, et al.. (2022). 2.5D, 3D and 4D printing in nanophotonics - a progress report. Materials Today Proceedings. 70. 304–309. 9 indexed citations
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Trisno, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). Super-resolution laser probing of integrated circuits using algorithmic methods. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5155–5155. 5 indexed citations
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Chan, John You En, Qifeng Ruan, Hongtao Wang, et al.. (2022). Full Geometric Control of Hidden Color Information in Diffraction Gratings under Angled White Light Illumination. Nano Letters. 22(20). 8189–8195. 29 indexed citations
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Zheng, Chunqi, Robert E. Simpson, Kechao Tang, et al.. (2022). Enabling Active Nanotechnologies by Phase Transition: From Electronics, Photonics to Thermotics. Chemical Reviews. 122(19). 15450–15500. 34 indexed citations
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Dong, Zhaogang, Sergey Gorelik, Ramón Paniagua‐Domínguez, et al.. (2021). Silicon Nanoantenna Mix Arrays for a Trifecta of Quantum Emitter Enhancements. Nano Letters. 21(11). 4853–4860. 38 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongtao, Hao Wang, Qifeng Ruan, et al.. (2021). Optical Fireworks Based on Multifocal Three-Dimensional Color Prints. ACS Nano. 15(6). 10185–10193. 32 indexed citations
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Jin, Zhongwei, Shiyi Mei, Shuqing Chen, et al.. (2019). Complex Inverse Design of Meta-optics by Segmented Hierarchical Evolutionary Algorithm. ACS Nano. 13(1). 821–829. 52 indexed citations
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Wu, Y. H., Jiahui Xu, Liangliang Liang, et al.. (2019). Upconversion superburst with sub-2 μs lifetime. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(12). 1110–1115. 148 indexed citations
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Chan, John You En, Qifeng Ruan, Ray Jia Hong Ng, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, & Joel K. W. Yang. (2019). Rotation-Selective Moiré Magnification of Structural Color Pattern Arrays. ACS Nano. 13(12). 14138–14144. 28 indexed citations
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Strobel, Sebastian, Katherine J. Harry, Huigao Duan, et al.. (2011). Electrochemical development of hydrogen silsesquioxane by applying an electrical potential. Nanotechnology. 22(37). 375301–375301. 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Joel K. W., Yeon Sik Jung, Jae‐Byum Chang, et al.. (2010). Complex self-assembled patterns using sparse commensurate templates with locally varying motifs. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(4). 256–260. 235 indexed citations

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