Lei Zhou

24.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
280 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Lei Zhou is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Zhou has authored 280 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 105 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 104 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lei Zhou's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (159 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (90 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (85 papers). Lei Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (159 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (90 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (85 papers). Lei Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Lei Zhou's co-authors include Qiong He, Shulin Sun, Fan Zhang, Xiaomin Li, Shiyi Xiao, Jiaming Hao, C. T. Chan, Dongyuan Zhao, Ping Sheng and Wujiong Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lei Zhou

270 papers receiving 17.5k 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.

High-Efficiency Broadband Anomalous Reflection by Gradient Meta-Surfaces

2012 1.1k citations Shulin Sun, Qiong He et al. profile →
Biphase Stratification Approach to Three-Dimensional Dendritic Biodegradable Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres

2014 710 citations Lei Zhou et al. profile →
Lifetime-engineered NIR-II nanoparticles unlock multiplexed in vivo imaging

2018 675 citations Lei Zhou et al. profile →
Manipulating Electromagnetic Wave Polarizations by Anisotropic Metamaterials

2007 674 citations C. T. Chan, Lei Zhou et al. profile →
High-Efficiency Broadband Meta-Hologram with Polarization-Controlled Dual Images

2013 674 citations Shulin Sun, Lei Zhou et al. profile →
Photonic Band Gap from a Stack of Positive and Negative Index Materials

2003 470 citations Lei Zhou, C. T. Chan et al. profile →
Broadband diffusion of terahertz waves by multi-bit coding metasurfaces

2015 460 citations Shaojie Ma, Qiong He et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
Nearly total absorption of light and heat generation by plasmonic metamaterials

2011 442 citations Lei Zhou et al. profile →
Ultra-broadband terahertz metamaterial absorber

2014 392 citations Qiong He, Lei Zhou et al. profile →
Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications

2019 392 citations Shulin Sun, Qiong He et al. profile →
Experimental realization of photonic topological insulator in a uniaxial metacrystal waveguide

2014 386 citations Lei Zhou, C. T. Chan et al. Nature Communications profile →
High‐Efficiency Metasurfaces: Principles, Realizations, and Applications

2018 298 citations Qiong He, Shulin Sun et al. profile →
Dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts with cascaded metasurfaces

2021 202 citations Xiaodong Cai, Haoyang Zhou et al. Advanced Photonics profile →
Efficient generation of vectorial terahertz beams using surface-wave excited metasurfaces

2025 31 citations Weikang Pan, Shaojie Ma et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	High-efficiency vectorial holography based on ultra-thin metasurfaces 2025 ·Advanced Photonics ·Tong Liu, (unknown), Dongyi Wang, C. T. Chan, Lei Zhou	0
2	Abnormal beam steering with kirigami reconfigurable metasurfaces 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Yingying Wang, Ziyu Zhang, Weikang Pan, Yizhen Chen, Yang Wang, Xiangzhong Chen, Enming Song, Gaoshan Huang, Qiong He, Shulin Sun, Jizhai Cui, Lei Zhou, Yongfeng Mei	10
3	Nonvolatile switchable dual-functional THz metamaterial with selective transmission and adjustable absorption empowered by q-BICs 2025 ·Optics Express ·Lei Zhou, Wei Hong, Changgui Lü, Zhaofu Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Qilong Wang, (unknown)	1
4	Functionality multiplexing in high-efficiency metasurfaces based on coherent wave interferences 2024 ·Opto-Electronic Advances ·(unknown), Tong Liu, (unknown), Dongyi Wang, Lei Zhou	5
5	Multiplexing near- and far-field functionalities with high-efficiency bi-channel metasurfaces 2024 ·PhotoniX ·(unknown), Tong Liu, Dongyi Wang, Lei Zhou	11
6	High-Aspect-Ratio Silicon Metasurfaces: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization 2023 ·Applied Sciences ·(unknown), Zhuo Wang, (unknown), Yu He, Shulin Sun, Lei Zhou, Qiong He	5
7	Gate‐tuned graphene meta‐devices for dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts 2022 ·Nanophotonics ·Qiushi Li, Xiaodong Cai, Tong Liu, Min Jia, Qiong Wu, Haoyang Zhou, Huanhuan Liu, Qianqian Wang, Xiaohui Ling, Cong Chen, (unknown), Qiong He, Yuanbo Zhang, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou	80
8	Perfect anomalous reflectors at optical frequencies 2022 ·Science Advances ·Tao He, Tong Liu, Shiyi Xiao, Zeyong Wei, Zhanshan Wang, Lei Zhou, Xinbin Cheng	55
9	Uncovering the Origin of Chirality from Plasmonic Nanoparticle/Cellulose Nanocrystal Composite Films 2022 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Sixiang Zhao, Han Zhu, (unknown), Ming Li, Liancheng Zhao, Lei Zhou, Liming Gao	16
10	Revisiting the anomalous spin-Hall effect of light near the Brewster angle 2021 ·Physical review. A ·Xiaohui Ling, (unknown), Shizhen Chen, Xinxing Zhou, Hailu Luo, Lei Zhou	66
11	Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces 2021 ·Light Science & Applications ·Dongyi Wang, Feifei Liu, Tong Liu, Shulin Sun, Qiong He, Lei Zhou	115
12	Large-scale, low-cost, broadband and tunable perfect optical absorber based on phase-change material 2020 ·Nanoscale ·Nanli Mou, Xiaolong Liu, Tao Wei, Hongxing Dong, Qiong He, Lei Zhou, Yaqian Zhang, Long Zhang, Shulin Sun	108
13	Vortex generation in the spin-orbit interaction of a light beam propagating inside a uniaxial medium: origin and efficiency 2020 ·Optics Express ·Xiaohui Ling, (unknown), Fuxin Guan, Xinxing Zhou, Hailu Luo, Lei Zhou	34
14	Tunable Graphene Split-Ring Resonators 2020 ·Physical Review Applied ·Qiaoxia Xing, Chong Wang, Shenyang Huang, Tong Liu, (unknown), Chaoyu Song, Fanjie Wang, Xuesong Li, Lei Zhou, Hugen Yan	19
15	Effective-medium theory for multilayer metamaterials: Role of near-field corrections 2020 ·Physical review. B. ·Tong Liu, Shaojie Ma, (unknown), Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou	12
16	The Influence of Cochlear Implant-Based Electric Stimulation on the Electrophysiological Characteristics of Cultured Spiral Ganglion Neurons 2020 ·Neural Plasticity ·Na Shen, Lei Zhou, Bin Lai, Shufeng Li	3
17	Reconstructing a plasmonic metasurface for a broadband high-efficiency optical vortex in the visible frequency 2018 ·Nanoscale ·Bing-Rui Lu, Jianan Deng, Qi Li, Sichao Zhang, Jing Zhou, Lei Zhou, Yifang Chen	15
18	A complete phase diagram for dark‐bright coupled plasmonic systems: applicability of Fano’s formula 2018 ·Nanophotonics ·Wanxia Huang, Jing Lin, Meng Qiu, Tong Liu, Qiong He, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou	22
19	An Improved Focused Crawler: Using Web Page Classification and Link Priority Evaluation 2016 ·Mathematical Problems in Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Lei Zhou, (unknown)	18
20	[Hyperspectral remote sensing monitoring of grassland degradation]. 2010 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Wenjie Fan, Yaokui Cui, Lei Zhou, Binyan Yan, (unknown), Xiru Xu	11

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