Ningsheng Xu

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
258 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Ningsheng Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ningsheng Xu has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Materials Chemistry, 124 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 86 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ningsheng Xu's work include Graphene research and applications (58 papers), ZnO doping and properties (56 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (52 papers). Ningsheng Xu is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (58 papers), ZnO doping and properties (56 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (52 papers). Ningsheng Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United Kingdom. Ningsheng Xu's co-authors include Shaozhi Deng, Jun Chen, Huanjun Chen, Juncong She, Jun Zhou, Fuli Zhao, Min Huang, Zhizhan Xu, Ya Cheng and Zhong Lin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ningsheng Xu

242 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Piezoelectric Field Effect Transistor and Nanoforce Senso... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2009 2019 250 500 750
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. Piezoelectric Field Effect Transistor and Nanoforce Sensor Based on a Single ZnO Nanowire
    2006 958 citations Ningsheng Xu et al. Nano Letters profile →
  2. Origin of Laser-Induced Near-Subwavelength Ripples: Interference between Surface Plasmons and Incident Laser
    2009 738 citations Ningsheng Xu et al. ACS Nano profile →
  3. A mid-infrared biaxial hyperbolic van der Waals crystal
    2019 296 citations Zebo Zheng, Ningsheng Xu et al. profile →

Peers

Ningsheng Xu
Carsten Ronning Germany
Alberto Piqué United States
Xianfan Xu United States
Changzhi Gu China
Bart J. Kooi Netherlands
John A. Woollam United States
Shigeo Maruyama Japan
Karsten Albe Germany
John T. L. Thong Singapore
Alan M. Cassell United States
Carsten Ronning Germany
Ningsheng Xu
Citations per year, relative to Ningsheng Xu Ningsheng Xu (= 1×) peers Carsten Ronning

Countries citing papers authored by Ningsheng Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ningsheng Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ningsheng Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ningsheng Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ningsheng Xu 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 Ningsheng Xu. Ningsheng Xu 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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Liang, Li, et al.. (2025). Dominance regions of pursuit-evasion games in non-anticipative information patterns. Automatica. 176. 112258–112258. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zebo, Wuchao Huang, Zhaolong Cao, et al.. (2025). Excitation and Manipulation of In-Plane Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in α-MoO3 Flakes via Plasmonic Antennas. Nano Letters. 25(27). 10953–10961. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Huanjun, Ximiao Wang, Shaojing Liu, et al.. (2025). Monolithic Multiparameter Terahertz Nano/Microdetector Based on Plasmon Polariton Atomic Cavity. Advanced Materials. 37(11). e2410946–e2410946. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guofu, Hai Ou, Shaozhi Deng, et al.. (2024). Fabrication and characteristics of double-gate zinc oxide nanowire field emitter arrays. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 42(6). 1 indexed citations
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Deng, Shaozhi, et al.. (2024). Uniform Current Supply in Gated p-Type Si-Tips for Achieving High-Performance Field Electron Emitter Array. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 71(8). 5034–5039. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianwei, Liwei Liu, Huanjun Chen, Ningsheng Xu, & Shaozhi Deng. (2024). Controlled Preparation of High Quality Bubble-Free and Uniform Conducting Interfaces of Vertical van der Waals Heterostructures of Arrays. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(8). 10877–10885. 6 indexed citations
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Huang, Wuchao, Thomas G. Folland, Fengsheng Sun, et al.. (2023). In-plane hyperbolic polariton tuners in terahertz and long-wave infrared regimes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2716–2716. 27 indexed citations
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Shen, Yan, Zheyu Song, Ningsheng Xu, Huanjun Chen, & Shaozhi Deng. (2023). Generation of Submillimeter Terahertz Radiation by Ultrafast Optical-Field-Emission. IEEE Electron Device Letters. 44(7). 1204–1207. 5 indexed citations
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Ma, Teng, Baicheng Yao, Zebo Zheng, et al.. (2022). Engineering Graphene Grain Boundaries for Plasmonic Multi-Excitation and Hotspots. ACS Nano. 16(6). 9041–9048. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Fengsheng, Wuchao Huang, Zebo Zheng, et al.. (2021). Polariton waveguide modes in two-dimensional van der Waals crystals: an analytical model and correlative nano-imaging. Nanoscale. 13(9). 4845–4854. 26 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zebo, Fengsheng Sun, Ningsheng Xu, et al.. (2021). Tunable Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in a Suspended van der Waals α‐MoO3 with Gradient Gaps. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(5). 17 indexed citations
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Huang, Wuchao, Fengsheng Sun, Zebo Zheng, et al.. (2021). Van der Waals Phonon Polariton Microstructures for Configurable Infrared Electromagnetic Field Localizations. Advanced Science. 8(13). 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Ximiao, Zebo Zheng, Ningsheng Xu, et al.. (2021). A Nano‐Imaging Study of Graphene Edge Plasmons with Chirality‐Dependent Dispersions. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(10). 5 indexed citations
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Zheng, Keshuang, Zhipeng Zhang, Ximiao Wang, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of photoluminescence quenching in visible and ultraviolet emissions of ZnO nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 58(5). 51005–51005. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, Jinxiu Wen, Weiliang Wang, et al.. (2019). Resonance Coupling in Heterostructures Composed of Silicon Nanosphere and Monolayer WS2: A Magnetic-Dipole-Mediated Energy Transfer Process. ACS Nano. 13(2). 1739–1750. 111 indexed citations
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Shen, Yan, Huanjun Chen, Ningsheng Xu, et al.. (2019). A Plasmon-Mediated Electron Emission Process. ACS Nano. 13(2). 1977–1989. 12 indexed citations
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Zhan, Runze, Luying Li, Huihui Liu, et al.. (2018). Defect-concentration dependence of electrical transport mechanisms in CuO nanowires. RSC Advances. 8(4). 2188–2195. 20 indexed citations
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Yang, Xun, Haibo Gan, Yan Tian, et al.. (2017). Fast identification of the conduction-type of nanomaterials by field emission technique. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13057–13057. 5 indexed citations
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Deng, Shaozhi, et al.. (2017). Improved field emission properties ofα-Fe2O3nanoflakes with current aging treatment and morphology optimization. Nanotechnology. 29(8). 85708–85708. 3 indexed citations

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