Maowen Song

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Maowen Song is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Maowen Song has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Maowen Song's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (20 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (8 papers). Maowen Song is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (20 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (8 papers). Maowen Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Maowen Song's co-authors include Hong-Lin Yu, Ting Xu, Pengcheng Huo, Yanqing Lu, Mingze Liu, Cheng Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Henri J. Lezec, Amit Agrawal and Lei Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters and Nature Nanotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Maowen Song

25 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states
    2021 282 citations Mingze Liu, Wenqi Zhu et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
  2. Broadband generation of perfect Poincaré beams via dielectric spin-multiplexed metasurface
    2021 213 citations Mingze Liu, Pengcheng Huo et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Maowen Song
Hongyoon Kim South Korea
Sage Doshay United States
Mingze Liu China
Vytautas Valuckas Singapore
Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh United States
Jianxiong Li China
Stephanie C. Malek United States
Muhammad Afnan Ansari Pakistan
Hongyoon Kim South Korea
Maowen Song
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maowen Song

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maowen Song. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maowen Song 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 Maowen Song. Maowen Song 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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Lin, Peicheng, Pengcheng Huo, Renchao Jin, et al.. (2025). Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3994–3994. 5 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, et al.. (2023). Independent transmitted and reflected colors enabled by Fano resonant optical coatings. Optical Materials Express. 13(5). 1259–1259. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Lei Feng, Pengcheng Huo, et al.. (2022). Versatile full-colour nanopainting enabled by a pixelated plasmonic metasurface. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(1). 71–78. 140 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingze, Pengcheng Huo, Wenqi Zhu, et al.. (2021). Broadband generation of perfect Poincaré beams via dielectric spin-multiplexed metasurface. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2230–2230. 213 indexed citations breakdown →
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Song, Maowen, Di Wang, Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev, et al.. (2021). Enabling Optical Steganography, Data Storage, and Encryption with Plasmonic Colors. Laser & Photonics Review. 15(3). 86 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingze, Wenqi Zhu, Pengcheng Huo, et al.. (2021). Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states. Light Science & Applications. 10(1). 107–107. 282 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Yilin, et al.. (2021). Lithography-Free Nanofilm Color Filters Composed of CMOS-Compatible Materials. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 33(13). 672–675. 4 indexed citations
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Huo, Pengcheng, Maowen Song, Wenqi Zhu, et al.. (2020). Photorealistic full-color nanopainting enabled by a low-loss metasurface. Optica. 7(9). 1171–1171. 67 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev, Hong-Lin Yu, et al.. (2019). Achieving full-color generation with polarization-tunable perfect light absorption. Optical Materials Express. 9(2). 779–779. 35 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Di Wang, Samuel Peana, et al.. (2019). Colors with plasmonic nanostructures: A full-spectrum review. Applied Physics Reviews. 6(4). 154 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Alexander V. Kildishev, Di Wang, et al.. (2018). Wavelength-dependent Optical-rotation Manipulation for Active Color Display and Highly Secure Encryption. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTh4M.2–FTh4M.2. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Di, Kerry Maize, Maowen Song, et al.. (2018). Thermoreflectance Imaging of Optically Pumped Gap Plasmon Structures. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTh1K.8–FTh1K.8. 2 indexed citations
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Sabra, Walied, Shaimaa I. Azzam, Maowen Song, et al.. (2018). Plasmonic metasurfaces for subtractive color filtering: optimized nonlinear regression models. Optics Letters. 43(19). 4815–4815. 10 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen & Hong-Lin Yu. (2017). Two dimensional subdiffraction focusing beyond the near-field diffraction limit via metasurface. Guangdian gongcheng. 44(3). 331–339. 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Jun, et al.. (2016). Simultaneous generation and focus of radially polarized light with metal-dielectric grating metasurface. Optics Communications. 382. 421–427. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zuojun, Jun Luo, Maowen Song, & Hong-Lin Yu. (2015). Large-area, broadband and high-efficiency near-infrared linear polarization manipulating metasurface fabricated by orthogonal interference lithography. Applied Physics Letters. 107(24). 42 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Changtao Wang, Zeyu Zhao, et al.. (2015). Nanofocusing beyond the near-field diffraction limit via plasmonic Fano resonance. Nanoscale. 8(3). 1635–1641. 40 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Hong-Lin Yu, Changtao Wang, et al.. (2015). Sharp Fano resonance induced by a single layer of nanorods with perturbed periodicity. Optics Express. 23(3). 2895–2895. 44 indexed citations
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Luo, Jun, Hong-Lin Yu, Maowen Song, & Zuojun Zhang. (2014). Highly efficient wavefront manipulation in terahertz based on plasmonic gradient metasurfaces. Optics Letters. 39(8). 2229–2229. 45 indexed citations
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Song, Maowen, Hong-Lin Yu, Chenggang Hu, et al.. (2013). Conversion of broadband energy to narrowband emission through double-sided metamaterials. Optics Express. 21(26). 32207–32207. 41 indexed citations

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