Thomas Caiwei Tan

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 809 citations indexed

About

Thomas Caiwei Tan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Caiwei Tan has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 809 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Thomas Caiwei Tan's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (9 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (7 papers). Thomas Caiwei Tan is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (9 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (7 papers). Thomas Caiwei Tan collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and China. Thomas Caiwei Tan's co-authors include Ranjan Singh, Eric Plum, Wenhao Wang, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar, Zhiming M. Wang, Guillaume Ducournau, Prakash Pitchappa, Rajour Tanyi Ako and Sharath Sriram and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Caiwei Tan

17 papers receiving 782 citations

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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.

Brillouin zone folding driven bound states in the continuum

2023 143 citations Wenhao Wang, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava et al. Nature Communications profile →
On-chip topological beamformer for multi-link terahertz 6G to XG wireless

2024 81 citations Wenhao Wang, Yi Ji Tan et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Caiwei Tan Singapore	10	471	462	383	343	178	21	809
Ride Wang China	16	491 1.0×	422 0.9×	381 1.0×	251 0.7×	143 0.8×	31	790
Alexey A. Basharin Russia	17	301 0.6×	756 1.6×	576 1.5×	395 1.2×	381 2.1×	46	993
Ruoxing Wang China	13	229 0.5×	612 1.3×	320 0.8×	297 0.9×	325 1.8×	32	760
Ekaterina Poutrina United States	14	222 0.5×	463 1.0×	422 1.1×	328 1.0×	160 0.9×	26	686
Shay Keren-Zur Israel	10	357 0.8×	626 1.4×	565 1.5×	499 1.5×	156 0.9×	12	942
Xinbo Sha China	6	194 0.4×	389 0.8×	239 0.6×	330 1.0×	160 0.9×	10	619
Davide Rocco Italy	21	539 1.1×	612 1.3×	717 1.9×	661 1.9×	186 1.0×	57	1.1k
Jiaju Wu China	10	279 0.6×	274 0.6×	258 0.7×	419 1.2×	82 0.5×	18	622
Liang Wu China	15	383 0.8×	426 0.9×	217 0.6×	239 0.7×	259 1.5×	67	710
Hugo M. Doeleman Netherlands	9	370 0.8×	252 0.5×	421 1.1×	530 1.5×	47 0.3×	12	726

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Wenhao, Yi Ji Tan, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2025). Tunable Topological Directional Supercoupler and Applications in THz On‐Chip Communication. Laser & Photonics Review. 20(1).

Tan, Thomas Caiwei, et al.. (2025). On‐Chip Active Non‐Reciprocal Topological Photonics. Advanced Materials. 37(26). e2501711–e2501711. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Shoujun, Wenhao Wang, Zhonglei Shen, et al.. (2025). On‐Chip Non‐Volatile Reconfigurable Phase Change Topological Photonics. Advanced Materials. 37(17). e2418510–e2418510. 6 indexed citations

Dai, Qiqi, Yinpeng Wang, Cheng Xu, et al.. (2025). High‐Asymmetry Metasurface: A New Solution for Terahertz Resonance via Active Learning‐Augmented Diffusion Model. Advanced Science. 13(2). e08610–e08610.

Shen, Zhonglei, Yi Ji Tan, Wenhao Wang, et al.. (2025). Interface Topology Driven Loss Minimization in Integrated Photonics: THz Ultrahigh‐ Q Cavities and Waveguides. Advanced Materials. 37(35). e2503460–e2503460. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Wenhao, Yi Ji Tan, Zhonglei Shen, et al.. (2025). On‐Chip Active Supercoupled Topological Cavity. Advanced Materials. 37(24). e2419261–e2419261. 3 indexed citations

Banerjee, Rimi, Abhishek Kumar, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2025). On-chip amorphous terahertz topological photonic interconnects. Science Advances. 11(25). eadu2526–eadu2526. 2 indexed citations

Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Abhishek Kumar, Yi Ji Tan, et al.. (2024). Topological Integrated Antenna for 6G Terahertz Wireless Communication. 1–6.

Wang, Kemeng, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2024). Nanometric Ge Films for Ultrafast Modulation of THz Waves with Flexible Metasurface (Advanced Optical Materials 36/2024). Advanced Optical Materials. 12(36).

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Tan, Yi Ji, et al.. (2024). Valley-Hall photonic crystal waveguides under non-Hermitian active defect. Applied Physics Letters. 125(5). 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Kemeng, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2024). Nanometric Ge Films for Ultrafast Modulation of THz Waves with Flexible Metasurface. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(36). 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenhao, Yi Ji Tan, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2024). On-chip topological beamformer for multi-link terahertz 6G to XG wireless. Nature. 632(8025). 522–527. 81 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Wenhao, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Thomas Caiwei Tan, Zhiming M. Wang, & Ranjan Singh. (2023). Brillouin zone folding driven bound states in the continuum. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2811–2811. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Abhishek Kumar, Yi Ji Tan, et al.. (2023). Valley-conserved topological integrated antenna for 100-Gbps THz 6G wireless. Science Advances. 9(44). eadi8500–eadi8500. 57 indexed citations

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Yang, Fengyuan, Thomas Caiwei Tan, Saurav Prakash, et al.. (2023). Reconfigurable Wide‐Angle Beam‐Steering Terahertz Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(9). 16 indexed citations

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Tan, Yi Ji, Thomas Caiwei Tan, Abhishek Kumar, et al.. (2022). Self-adaptive deep reinforcement learning for THz beamforming with silicon metasurfaces in 6G communications. Optics Express. 30(15). 27763–27763. 24 indexed citations

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Kumar, Abhishek, Manoj Gupta, Prakash Pitchappa, et al.. (2022). Active Ultrahigh‐Q (0.2 × 10⁶) THz Topological Cavities on a Chip. Advanced Materials. 34(27). e2202370–e2202370. 90 indexed citations

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Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Rajour Tanyi Ako, et al.. (2021). Active Control of Nanodielectric‐Induced THz Quasi‐BIC in Flexible Metasurfaces: A Platform for Modulation and Sensing. Advanced Materials. 33(27). 193 indexed citations

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Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Eric Plum, & Ranjan Singh. (2020). Lattice‐Enhanced Fano Resonances from Bound States in the Continuum Metasurfaces. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(6). 99 indexed citations

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Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Eric Plum, & Ranjan Singh. (2019). Surface Lattice Resonances in THz Metamaterials. Photonics. 6(3). 75–75. 36 indexed citations

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