Laiwen Yu

613 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 445 citations indexed

About

Laiwen Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laiwen Yu has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 445 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Laiwen Yu's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (5 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (5 papers). Laiwen Yu is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (5 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (5 papers). Laiwen Yu collaborates with scholars based in China and Japan. Laiwen Yu's co-authors include Daoxin Dai, Chaoyue Liu, Jingshu Guo, Ming Zhang, Yaocheng Shi, Li Jiang, Huan Li, Jiang Li, Yuanrong Li and Liu Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Letters, Optics Express and Journal of Lightwave Technology.

In The Last Decade

Laiwen Yu

12 papers receiving 424 citations

Hit Papers

Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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. Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared
    2021 334 citations Chaoyue Liu, Jingshu Guo et al. Light Science & Applications profile →

Peers

Laiwen Yu
Bongkwon Son Singapore
Ruijuan Tian China
Qimiao Chen Singapore
Ahmed S. Mayet United States
Markus Jech Austria
Ming-Chang M. Lee Taiwan
Ruixuan Yi China
Ti Xie United States
Bongkwon Son Singapore
Laiwen Yu
Citations per year, relative to Laiwen Yu Laiwen Yu (= 1×) peers Bongkwon Son

Countries citing papers authored by Laiwen Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laiwen Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laiwen Yu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laiwen Yu. The network helps show where Laiwen Yu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laiwen Yu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laiwen Yu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laiwen Yu 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 Laiwen Yu. Laiwen Yu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Yu, Laiwen, Yuanrong Li, Jingshu Guo, et al.. (2025). Waveguide integrated graphene–colloidal-quantum-dot photodetectors with high gain and 2.7  MHz bandwidth. Photonics Research. 13(10). 2930–2930.
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Li, Yuanrong, Guowu Zhang, Jin Xie, et al.. (2024). Silicon-Integrated Coherent Optical Receiver Realized by a Semi-inverse-Designed 90° Hybrid. ACS Photonics. 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Jingshu, et al.. (2024). Waveguide-integrated aluminum–MoTe2 Schottky photodetectors for the wavelength band extended to 2 µm. Optics Letters. 49(21). 6153–6153. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Laiwen, Yuanrong Li, Liu Liu, et al.. (2024). Four‐channel graphene optical receiver. Nanophotonics. 13(21). 4019–4028.
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Li, Zhicheng, Laiwen Yu, Yuanrong Li, et al.. (2024). High-performance full-etched fiber-to-chip grating couplers at 3.7-micron wavelength on silicon. APL Photonics. 9(12).
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Li, Yuanrong, Jingshu Guo, Lai‐Peng Ma, et al.. (2024). Waveguide Integrated Graphene Bolometer Based on Johnson Noise Read-Out. 1–3.
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Yu, Laiwen, Jingshu Guo, Chaoyue Liu, et al.. (2023). High-Bandwidth Zero-Biased Waveguide-Integrated p-n Homojunction Graphene Photodetectors on Silicon for a Wavelength Band of 1.55 μm and Beyond. ACS Photonics. 10(10). 3621–3628. 15 indexed citations
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Yu, Laiwen, et al.. (2023). High-Performance 2 × 2 Bent Directional Couplers Designed With an Efficient Semi-Inverse Design Method. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 42(2). 740–747. 16 indexed citations
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Guo, Jingshu, et al.. (2023). High-performance and compact integrated photonic dichroic filters and triplexer realized by an efficient inverse design. Optics Letters. 48(19). 4961–4961. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Haitao, Chaoyue Liu, Laiwen Yu, et al.. (2023). High‐Efficiency All‐Optical Modulator Based on Ultra‐Thin Silicon/Graphene Hybrid Waveguides. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(3). 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Chaoyue, et al.. (2022). High-Speed and High-Responsivity Silicon/Black-Phosphorus Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide Avalanche Photodetector. ACS Photonics. 9(5). 1764–1774. 34 indexed citations
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Liu, Chaoyue, Jingshu Guo, Laiwen Yu, et al.. (2021). Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared. Light Science & Applications. 10(1). 123–123. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Chaoyue, et al.. (2021). Silicon-Graphene Heterojunction Waveguide Photodetector with a 3dB-bandwidth of >14 GHz. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2021. T4A.205–T4A.205. 1 indexed citations

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