Menglu Chen

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Menglu Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Menglu Chen has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Materials Chemistry, 54 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Menglu Chen's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (46 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (31 papers) and Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials (23 papers). Menglu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (46 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (31 papers) and Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials (23 papers). Menglu Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Menglu Chen's co-authors include Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest, Xin Tang, Matthew M. Ackerman, Qun Hao, Dmitri V. Talapin, Margaret H. Hudson, Xinzheng Lan, Guohua Shen, Yuanyuan Wang and Ying Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Menglu Chen

75 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Dual-band infrared imaging using stacked colloidal quantum dot photodiodes
    2019 404 citations Xin Tang, Matthew M. Ackerman et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Menglu Chen China 24 1.7k 1.6k 386 280 212 84 2.2k
Dawei He China 23 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 305 0.8× 264 0.9× 330 1.6× 118 2.3k
Huajun Wu China 26 2.4k 1.5× 1.7k 1.1× 268 0.7× 339 1.2× 111 0.5× 84 2.7k
Cong Su China 21 1.4k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 285 0.7× 158 0.6× 280 1.3× 49 2.6k
Yasuyuki Kobayashi Japan 27 1.5k 0.9× 998 0.6× 291 0.8× 333 1.2× 423 2.0× 132 2.4k
Jahyun Koo South Korea 17 999 0.6× 750 0.5× 190 0.5× 217 0.8× 209 1.0× 48 1.5k
Shaoqing Xiao China 27 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 374 1.0× 176 0.6× 164 0.8× 114 2.2k
Jiawei Lai China 26 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 305 0.8× 558 2.0× 378 1.8× 57 2.8k
Jing Su China 26 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 133 0.3× 321 1.1× 305 1.4× 103 2.1k
Yong Yang China 24 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 158 0.4× 338 1.2× 110 0.5× 158 1.9k
Pu Huang China 21 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 272 0.7× 227 0.8× 313 1.5× 65 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Menglu Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Menglu Chen

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

All Works

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Cao, Hung, Xing Peng, Feng Shi, et al.. (2025). Advances in subsurface defect detection techniques for fused silica optical components: A literature review. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 35. 809–835. 18 indexed citations
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Hao, Qun, et al.. (2023). The Historical Development of Infrared Photodetection Based on Intraband Transitions. Materials. 16(4). 1562–1562. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Menglu, et al.. (2023). High-operating-temperature mid-infrared photodetectors via quantum dot gradient homojunction. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 2–2. 86 indexed citations
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Xu, Bin, et al.. (2023). High-efficiency NP-carbon dots above 60% with both delayed fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence. Chemical Communications. 59(90). 13474–13477. 4 indexed citations
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Hao, Qun, et al.. (2023). Low Dark-Current Quantum-Dot Infrared Imager. ACS Photonics. 10(12). 4290–4298. 14 indexed citations
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Hao, Qun, et al.. (2023). Germanium-OLED short-wave infrared-to-visible upconverters. Applied Physics Letters. 123(24). 4 indexed citations
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Mu, Ge, et al.. (2023). Perovskite colloidal quantum-dot enhanced graphene/silicon heterojunction with improved ultraviolet response. Applied Physics Letters. 122(5). 7 indexed citations
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Hao, Qun, et al.. (2023). Large-scale fabrication of CMOS-compatible silicon-OLED heterojunctions enabled infrared upconverters. APL Photonics. 8(3). 8 indexed citations
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Mu, Ge, et al.. (2023). Mercury telluride colloidal quantum-dot focal plane array with planar p-n junctions enabled by in situ electric field–activated doping. Science Advances. 9(28). eadg7827–eadg7827. 28 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuo, Cheng Bi, Yanfei Liu, et al.. (2022). Direct Optical Lithography Enabled Multispectral Colloidal Quantum-Dot Imagers from Ultraviolet to Short-Wave Infrared. ACS Nano. 16(11). 18822–18829. 43 indexed citations
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Lu, Shaoyong, Zhong Fu, Fu Li, et al.. (2022). Beyond a Linker: The Role of Photochemistry of Crosslinkers in the Direct Optical Patterning of Colloidal Nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie. 134(23). 3 indexed citations
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Mu, Ge, et al.. (2022). Ultrasensitive Colloidal Quantum-Dot Upconverters for Extended Short-Wave Infrared. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(40). 45553–45561. 26 indexed citations
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Lu, Shaoyong, Zhong Fu, Fu Li, et al.. (2022). Beyond a Linker: The Role of Photochemistry of Crosslinkers in the Direct Optical Patterning of Colloidal Nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(23). e202202633–e202202633. 69 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuo, Menglu Chen, Ge Mu, et al.. (2021). Spray‐Stencil Lithography Enabled Large‐Scale Fabrication of Multispectral Colloidal Quantum‐Dot Infrared Detectors. Advanced Materials Technologies. 7(6). 25 indexed citations
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Tang, Xin, et al.. (2020). Colloidal Quantum-Dots/Graphene/Silicon Dual-Channel Detection of Visible Light and Short-Wave Infrared. ACS Photonics. 7(5). 1117–1121. 52 indexed citations
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Tang, Xin, Menglu Chen, Matthew M. Ackerman, Christopher Melnychuk, & Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest. (2020). Direct Imprinting of Quasi‐3D Nanophotonic Structures into Colloidal Quantum‐Dot Devices. Advanced Materials. 32(9). e1906590–e1906590. 36 indexed citations
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Ackerman, Matthew M., Menglu Chen, & Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest. (2020). HgTe colloidal quantum dot photodiodes for extended short-wave infrared detection. Applied Physics Letters. 116(8). 66 indexed citations
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Tang, Xin, Matthew M. Ackerman, Menglu Chen, & Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest. (2019). Dual-band infrared imaging using stacked colloidal quantum dot photodiodes. Nature Photonics. 13(4). 277–282. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

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