Kan Yao

2.7k total citations
74 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kan Yao is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kan Yao has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kan Yao's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (38 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (19 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (18 papers). Kan Yao is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (38 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (19 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (18 papers). Kan Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Kan Yao's co-authors include Yongmin Liu, Zuojia Wang, Hongsheng Chen, Yuebing Zheng, Hui Jia, Wenshan Cai, Costas M. Soukoulis, Bin Zheng, Yihao Yang and Liqiao Jing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Kan Yao

69 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kan Yao United States 24 1.3k 966 729 664 481 74 2.1k
Jie Luo China 28 1.5k 1.1× 898 0.9× 987 1.4× 738 1.1× 518 1.1× 109 2.3k
Joohoon Kim South Korea 35 2.2k 1.7× 797 0.8× 1.0k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 663 1.4× 70 2.9k
Jun‐Yu Ou United Kingdom 26 1.6k 1.2× 1.5k 1.5× 1.0k 1.4× 560 0.8× 1.0k 2.1× 98 2.8k
Michael Mrejen Israel 11 1.2k 0.9× 692 0.7× 589 0.8× 704 1.1× 519 1.1× 26 1.9k
Younghwan Yang South Korea 33 1.9k 1.4× 1.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.8× 831 1.3× 794 1.7× 59 3.2k
Jaehyuck Jang South Korea 25 2.1k 1.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.9× 969 1.5× 826 1.7× 36 3.3k
René Lynge Eriksen Denmark 16 1.3k 1.0× 1.5k 1.5× 1.0k 1.4× 563 0.8× 451 0.9× 44 2.3k
Sean P. Rodrigues United States 18 1.3k 1.0× 964 1.0× 796 1.1× 483 0.7× 762 1.6× 28 2.2k
Bingyan Wei China 23 1.3k 1.0× 552 0.6× 1.2k 1.6× 253 0.4× 515 1.1× 81 2.0k
Junhong Deng China 20 1.2k 1.0× 652 0.7× 893 1.2× 547 0.8× 524 1.1× 46 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kan Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kan Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kan Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kan Yao 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 Kan Yao. Kan Yao 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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Xiao, Chengyu, Kan Yao, Yifan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters by machine learning. Nature. 643(8070). 80–88. 11 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2025). Optimized Design and Implementation of CRYSTALS‐KYBER Based on MLWE. Security and Communication Networks. 2025(1).
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Yao, Kan, Chengyu Xiao, Shaowen Chen, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired photonic materials for advanced thermal management. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(22). 10690–10723.
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Fang, Jie, Rui Chen, Sander A. Mann, et al.. (2024). Million-Q free space meta-optical resonator at near-visible wavelengths. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10341–10341. 11 indexed citations
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Kollipara, Pavana Siddhartha, Zilong Wu, Kan Yao, et al.. (2024). Three-Dimensional Optothermal Manipulation of Light-Absorbing Particles in Phase-Change Gel Media. ACS Nano. 18(11). 8062–8072. 2 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2024). Nested deep transfer learning for modeling of multilayer thin films. Advanced Photonics. 6(5). 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Youngsun, et al.. (2024). Optical Actuation of Nanoparticle-Loaded Liquid–Liquid Interfaces for Active Photonics. ACS Nano. 18(24). 15627–15637. 1 indexed citations
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Fang, Jie, Kan Yao, Mingsong Wang, et al.. (2023). Observation of Room-Temperature Exciton-Polariton Emission from Wide-Ranging 2D Semiconductors Coupled with a Broadband Mie Resonator. Nano Letters. 23(21). 9803–9810. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Jingang, Kan Yao, Yun Huang, et al.. (2022). Tunable Strong Coupling in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanowires (Adv. Mater. 34/2022). Advanced Materials. 34(34). 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Yihao, et al.. (2021). Self-Assembly of Silica–Gold Core–Shell Microparticles by Electric Fields Toward Dynamically Tunable Metamaterials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(12). 14417–14422. 12 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2020). Deep Convolutional Mixture Density Network for Inverse Design of Layered Photonic Structures. ACS Photonics. 7(10). 2703–2712. 75 indexed citations
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He, Mengqi, Shuai Chen, Kan Yao, et al.. (2019). Precisely Tuning LSPR Property via “Peptide-Encoded” Morphological Evolution of Gold Nanorods for Quantitative Visualization of Enzyme Activity. Analytical Chemistry. 92(1). 1395–1401. 28 indexed citations
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Kim, Minkyung, Sunae So, Kan Yao, Yongmin Liu, & Junsuk Rho. (2016). Deep sub-wavelength nanofocusing of UV-visible light by hyperbolic metamaterials. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38645–38645. 34 indexed citations
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Wang, Zuojia, Kan Yao, Min Chen, Hongsheng Chen, & Yongmin Liu. (2016). Manipulating Smith-Purcell Emission with Babinet Metasurfaces. Physical Review Letters. 117(15). 157401–157401. 115 indexed citations
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Li, Zu-Bin, Kan Yao, Fengnian Xia, et al.. (2015). Graphene Plasmonic Metasurfaces to Steer Infrared Light. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12423–12423. 188 indexed citations
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Chen, Zongping, Yuliang Chen, & Kan Yao. (2014). Experimental research on mechanical behavior and influence factor of recycled coarse aggregate concretes under tri-axial compression. 35(12). 72–81. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2012). Conformal transformations to achieve unidirectional behavior of light. New Journal of Physics. 14(5). 53023–53023. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Chao, Kan Yao, & Fang Li. (2009). Two-Dimensional (2D) Polygonal Electromagnetic Cloaks. Chinese Physics Letters. 26(6). 64206–64206. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2008). Two-dimensional electromagnetic cloaks with non-conformal inner and outer boundaries. Optics Express. 16(23). 19366–19366. 37 indexed citations
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Yao, Kan, et al.. (2008). Electromagnetic Invisibility of Elliptic Cylinder Cloaks. Chinese Physics Letters. 25(5). 1657–1660. 10 indexed citations

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