Ran Yan

10.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
143 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Ran Yan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Yan has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ran Yan's work include Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (71 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (68 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (32 papers). Ran Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (71 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (68 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (32 papers). Ran Yan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and China. Ran Yan's co-authors include Nima Dehdashti Akhavan, Isabelle Ferain, Chi‐Woo Lee, Jean-Pierre Colinge, Pedram Razavi, Aryan Afzalian, L.A. Coldren, K.F. Lee, A. Ourmazd and R. J. Simes and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ran Yan

134 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Nanowire transistors without junctions

2010 1.8k citations Jean-Pierre Colinge, Chi‐Woo Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Junctionless multigate field-effect transistor

2009 753 citations Chi‐Woo Lee, Aryan Afzalian et al. profile →
Scaling the Si MOSFET: from bulk to SOI to bulk

1992 651 citations Ran Yan et al. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices profile →
Performance estimation of junctionless multigate transistors

2009 455 citations Chi‐Woo Lee, Isabelle Ferain et al. Solid-State Electronics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ran Yan	7.5k	2.3k	1.6k	533	224	143	8.0k
M.K. Smit	7.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	3.9k 2.4×	680 1.3×	93 0.4×	351	8.3k
F. Bœuf	4.9k 0.6×	906 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	517 1.0×	27 0.1×	230	5.2k
D.L. Harame	4.7k 0.6×	716 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	475 0.9×	24 0.1×	225	5.0k
L. Selmi	4.3k 0.6×	990 0.4×	578 0.4×	618 1.2×	80 0.4×	330	4.8k
Chenming Hu	4.8k 0.6×	797 0.3×	441 0.3×	624 1.2×	50 0.2×	103	5.1k
L. Šekarić	3.7k 0.5×	847 0.4×	2.5k 1.5×	516 1.0×	107 0.5×	52	4.3k
Paul K. L. Yu	2.5k 0.3×	892 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	610 1.1×	27 0.1×	218	3.1k
Alexander Eichler	1.2k 0.2×	471 0.2×	2.1k 1.3×	647 1.2×	106 0.5×	47	2.3k
T.H. Ning	4.9k 0.6×	546 0.2×	870 0.5×	716 1.3×	39 0.2×	142	5.2k
Günther Roelkens	9.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	5.6k 3.4×	888 1.7×	30 0.1×	474	10.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Yan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Han, Wei, et al.. (2025). Field measurement and simulation of a novel passive solar and shallow-geothermal heating system designed for temporary prefabricated houses. Renewable Energy. 244. 122648–122648.

Yan, Ran, Yuqing Mao, Chuandong Wu, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness and Mechanisms of CdS/Porous g-C3N4 Heterostructures for Adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Tetracycline Hydrochloride Wastewater in Visible Light. Applied Sciences. 14(23). 11372–11372. 3 indexed citations

Xiao, Yi, Bin Yin, Shiying Xiao, et al.. (2024). Simultaneous measurement of hydrogen and methane concentrations with temperature self-calibration based on a SPR sensor with an anchor-shaped photonic crystal fiber. Optics & Laser Technology. 175. 110880–110880. 5 indexed citations

Lu, Shuaibing, Xin Jin, Jie Wu, et al.. (2024). QoS-aware Dynamic Service Caching and Updating in Cost-efficient Multi-Access Edge Computing. 1718–1725.

Yan, Ran. (2024). Design and optimization of CMOS based 4-bit comparator. Applied and Computational Engineering. 41(1). 29–42. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Ran, et al.. (2023). Solidification process analysis and parameter optimization of powder coating by electrostatic spraying. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2539(1). 12092–12092.

Yan, Ran, et al.. (2022). Photoinduced evolution of optical properties and compositions of methoxyphenols by Fe(III)-carboxylates complexes in atmospheric aqueous phase. Chemosphere. 295. 133860–133860. 4 indexed citations

Colinge, J.-P., Abhinav Kranti, Ran Yan, et al.. (2011). Junctionless Nanowire Transistor (JNT): Properties and design guidelines. Solid-State Electronics. 65-66. 33–37. 349 indexed citations

Colinge, Jean-Pierre, Chi‐Woo Lee, Aryan Afzalian, et al.. (2010). Nanowire transistors without junctions. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(3). 225–229. 1844 indexed citations breakdown →

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Akhavan, Nima Dehdashti, Aryan Afzalian, Chi‐Woo Lee, et al.. (2010). Simulation of Quantum Current Oscillations in Trigate SOI MOSFETs. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 57(5). 1102–1109. 11 indexed citations

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Colinge, J.-P., Christopher Lee, Aryan Afzalian, et al.. (2009). SOI gated resistor: CMOS without junctions. 1–2. 115 indexed citations

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Strauch, P., Carlo Luschi, Magnus Sandell, & Ran Yan. (2003). Turbo equalization for an 8-PSK modulation scheme in a mobile TDMA communication system. 3. 1605–1609. 13 indexed citations

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Yan, Ran, et al.. (2002). Capacity of a packet switched cellular network with link adaptation. 3. 1568–1572. 11 indexed citations

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Jeon, Dae‐Young, et al.. (1994). Gate technology for 0.1-μm Si complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor using g-line exposure and deep ultraviolet hardening. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 12(4). 2800–2804. 4 indexed citations

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Yan, Ran, et al.. (1991). Electroabsorption modulation of visible light in AlGaAs quantum wells. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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Corzine, S., Ran Yan, & L.A. Coldren. (1991). A tanh substitution technique for the analysis of abrupt and graded interface multilayer dielectric stacks. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 27(9). 2086–2090. 51 indexed citations

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Yan, Ran, et al.. (1990). Simultaneous gain and phase-shift enhancements in periodic gain structures. Journal of Applied Physics. 67(9). 4387–4389. 3 indexed citations

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Tsuchiya, Masahiro, J. M. Gaines, Ran Yan, et al.. (1989). Observation of polarization dependence of absorption in a quantum well wire array grown directly by molecular-beam epitaxy. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics Processing and Phenomena. 7(2). 315–318. 6 indexed citations

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Geels, R.S., Ran Yan, J.W. Scott, et al.. (1988). Analysis and design of a novel parallel-driven MQW-DBR surface-emitting diode laser. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 10 indexed citations

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Mendoza-Álvarez, J. G., et al.. (1988). Analysis of depletion edge translation lightwave modulators. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 6(6). 793–808. 69 indexed citations

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