Wei E. I. Sha

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
298 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Wei E. I. Sha is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei E. I. Sha has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 132 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 81 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei E. I. Sha's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (64 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (48 papers) and Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (43 papers). Wei E. I. Sha is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (64 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (48 papers) and Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (43 papers). Wei E. I. Sha collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Wei E. I. Sha's co-authors include Wallace C. H. Choy, Fengxian Xie, Weng Cho Chew, Xuanhua Li, Li Jun Jiang, Menglin L. N. Chen, Dixon D. S. Fung, Zhixiang Huang, Zhihao Lan and Lijun Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei E. I. Sha

266 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Dual Plasmonic Nanostructures for High Performance Inverted Organic Solar Cells

2012 626 citations Wallace C. H. Choy, Wei E. I. Sha et al. profile →
Efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells with very high fill factors via incorporation of star-shaped polymer

2021 255 citations Wei E. I. Sha et al. profile →
Extremely Large-Scale MIMO: Fundamentals, Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions

2023 131 citations Wei E. I. Sha, Mérouane Debbah et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei E. I. Sha China	49	5.4k	2.0k	2.0k	1.8k	1.7k	298	8.2k
Chun Li China	53	5.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	6.2k 3.4×	738 0.4×	342	10.8k
Boon S. Ooi Saudi Arabia	59	8.7k 1.6×	2.9k 1.5×	2.0k 1.0×	4.8k 2.6×	510 0.3×	512	13.8k
Zhongyi Guo China	42	2.3k 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	209 0.1×	287	7.0k
Trung Dac Nguyen United States	25	1.4k 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	5.2k 2.8×	599 0.4×	53	9.6k
Roger H. French United States	45	3.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	4.0k 2.2×	329 0.2×	337	8.7k
Jun Zhang China	68	8.0k 1.5×	3.1k 1.6×	3.7k 1.9×	10.6k 5.8×	1.3k 0.7×	558	18.1k
Andreas Mandelis Canada	45	2.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	4.9k 2.5×	1.6k 0.9×	401 0.2×	564	10.9k
Dan Bolintineanu United States	20	1.4k 0.3×	860 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	4.1k 2.2×	588 0.3×	50	8.1k
Antoni Rogalski Poland	48	9.7k 1.8×	4.8k 2.4×	2.4k 1.2×	3.8k 2.1×	552 0.3×	311	12.4k
Shi Liu China	44	3.6k 0.7×	969 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	4.2k 2.3×	431 0.3×	270	7.2k

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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2025). Enabling low Threshold Laser Through an Asymmetric Tetramer Metasurface Harnessing Polarization‐Independent Quasi‐BICs. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(13). 4 indexed citations

Zhong, Hongxia, Bowen Li, Chengmiao Wang, et al.. (2025). Topology optimization of broadband polarization conversion metasurfaces in microwave region. Results in Engineering. 25. 104575–104575. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaoming, et al.. (2025). Analog–digital precoding based on mutual coupling considering the actual radiation performance of MIMO antenna arrays. Signal Processing. 232. 109932–109932.

Yuan, Shuai, Jinpeng Yuan, Chongwen Huang, et al.. (2025). Electromagnetic Modeling and Capacity Analysis of Rydberg Atom-Based MIMO System. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 24(7). 1839–1843. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Jiefei, Xing Lin, Qianqian Yu, et al.. (2024). Wavelength-tunable high-fidelity entangled photon sources enabled by dual Stark effects. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5792–5792. 8 indexed citations

Huang, Jianping, et al.. (2024). Phase-Informed Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Extremely High-Frequency Wave Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 72(8). 6614–6626.

Wang, Xiuyu, Xiaoman Wang, Jitao Li, et al.. (2023). Tailoring the bound states in the multi-channel nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces. Optics Communications. 549. 129834–129834. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Xiuyu, Yuqing He, Jian Wei You, et al.. (2023). Digital imaging through terahertz multifrequency programmable metasurface based on BIC. Optical Materials. 143. 114154–114154. 8 indexed citations

Wei, Li, Chongwen Huang, George C. Alexandropoulos, et al.. (2023). Tri-Polarized Holographic MIMO Surfaces for Near-Field Communications: Channel Modeling and Precoding Design. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 22(12). 8828–8842. 41 indexed citations

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Feng, Naixing, et al.. (2023). A Stability Extensible Symplectic FDTD^(4,4) Method and Its Application in Subgrid Technique for Arbitrary Grid Ratios. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 71(11). 9124–9129. 4 indexed citations

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He, Zi, et al.. (2023). Electromagnetic Effective-Degree-of-Freedom Prediction With Parabolic Equation Method. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 71(4). 3752–3757. 5 indexed citations

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Zheng, Shilie, Yuqi Chen, Xiaonan Hui, et al.. (2022). Plane Spiral OAM Mode-Group Orthogonal Multiplexing Communication Using Partial Arc Sampling Receiving Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 70(11). 10998–11008. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xianmin, Shilie Zheng, Yuqi Chen, et al.. (2022). Structured Beamforming Based on Orbital Angular Momentum Mode-Group. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 41(7). 1997–2006. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Menglin L. N., Li Jun Jiang, Zhihao Lan, & Wei E. I. Sha. (2020). Coexistence of pseudospin- and valley-Hall-like edge states in a photonic crystal with C3v symmetry. UCL Discovery (University College London). 41 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaoming, Lin Yang, Wei Xue, et al.. (2020). Launcher of high-order Bessel vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum by designing anisotropic holographic metasurface. Applied Physics Letters. 117(24). 22 indexed citations

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Fang, Ming, et al.. (2019). Linear and nonlinear spin-orbital coupling in golden-angle spiral quasicrystals. Optics Express. 28(1). 334–334. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Menglin L. N., Li Jun Jiang, & Wei E. I. Sha. (2018). Orbital Angular Momentum Generation and Detection by Geometric-Phase Based Metasurfaces. UCL Discovery (University College London). 78 indexed citations

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Chen, Menglin L. N., Li Jun Jiang, & Wei E. I. Sha. (2018). Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum by a Point Defect in Photonic Crystals. UCL Discovery (University College London). 23 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2017). Mixing of spin and orbital angular momenta via second-harmonic generation in plasmonic and dielectric chiral nanostructures. Physical review. B.. 95(16). 25 indexed citations

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Sha, Wei E. I., et al.. (2013). Unidirectional and wavelength-selective photonic sphere-array nanoantennas. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 35 indexed citations

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