Wenshan Cai

23.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
116 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Wenshan Cai is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenshan Cai has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 54 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 53 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenshan Cai's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (51 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (49 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (28 papers). Wenshan Cai is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (51 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (49 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (28 papers). Wenshan Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Wenshan Cai's co-authors include Vladimir M. Shalaev, Mark L. Brongersma, Alexander V. Kildishev, Uday K. Chettiar, Justin S. White, Edward S. Barnard, Jon A. Schuller, Young Chul Jun, Zhaocheng Liu and Sean P. Rodrigues and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wenshan Cai

109 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation

2010 3.4k citations Wenshan Cai, Mark L. Brongersma et al. Nature Materials profile →
3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

2016 1.9k citations Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Optical cloaking with metamaterials

2007 1.6k citations Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Negative index of refraction in optical metamaterials

2005 1.3k citations Vladimir M. Shalaev, Wenshan Cai et al. profile →
Self-limited plasmonic welding of silver nanowire junctions

2012 1.0k citations Erik C. Garnett, Wenshan Cai et al. Nature Materials profile →
Deep learning for the design of photonic structures

2020 747 citations Zhaocheng Liu, Alexandra Boltasseva et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Generative Model for the Inverse Design of Metasurfaces

2018 701 citations Zhaocheng Liu, Dayu Zhu et al. Nano Letters profile →
Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications

2009 612 citations Wenshan Cai, Vladimir M. Shalaev profile →
Optical Metamaterials

2009 543 citations Wenshan Cai, Vladimir M. Shalaev profile →
Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency

2022 229 citations Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Omid Hemmatyar et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenshan Cai

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Including A-shares in the MSCI index and enterprises’ Total factor productivity—impact on China's micro-enterprises 2025 ·Finance research letters ·Yu Yang, Xiuguo Hua, (unknown), Wenshan Cai	2
2	Machine‐learning‐assisted photonic device development: a multiscale approach from theory to characterization 2025 ·Nanophotonics ·Yuheng Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tran Van Do, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Michael Moebius, Wenshan Cai, Yongmin Liu, Alexandra Boltasseva	1
3	Mueller matrix symmetry for both reciprocal and nonreciprocal metamaterials 2024 ·Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer ·(unknown), Wenshan Cai, Zhuomin M. Zhang	1
4	Exploring the synergy between hot-electron dynamics and active plasmonics: A perspective 2024 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), Wenshan Cai	2
5	Design of Multifunctional Color Routers with Kerker Switching Using Generative Adversarial Networks 2024 ·Laser & Photonics Review ·Jiahao Yan, Dayu Zhu, Yanjun Bao, Qin Chen, Baojun Li, Wenshan Cai	1
6	Phototransformation of achiral metasurfaces into handedness-selectable transient chiral media 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Mohammad Taghinejad, Wenshan Cai	8
7	Tailored Dispersion of Spectro‐Temporal Dynamics in Hot‐Carrier Plasmonics 2023 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), Mohammad Taghinejad, (unknown), Lakshmi Raju, Kyu‐Tae Lee, Wenshan Cai	4
8	A flat radiative cooling thermoelectric generator for high performance power generation 2023 ·Energy ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wenshan Cai, Fan Zhang, (unknown), Zhicheng Ye	18
9	Tailoring full‐Stokes thermal emission from twisted‐gratings structures 2023 ·Nanophotonics ·(unknown), Wenshan Cai, Zhuomin M. Zhang	8
10	Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Omid Hemmatyar, Mohammad Taghinejad, Hossein Taghinejad, Alex Krasnok, Ali A. Eftekhar, (unknown), Sanchit Deshmukh, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed, Eric Pop, Matthias Wuttig, Andrea Alù, Wenshan Cai, Ali Adibi	229
11	Reversible Photochemical Switching via Plasmonically Enhanced Upconversion Photoluminescence 2021 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·Byung‐Hoon Kim, Kyu‐Tae Lee, Junhee Cho, (unknown), Kinam Jung, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hohjai Lee, Seok Joon Kwon, In Soo Kim, Wenshan Cai, Kwang‐Hyun Ahn, Doo‐Hyun Ko	13
12	Stable, high-performance sodium-based plasmonic devices in the near infrared 2020 ·Nature ·Yang Wang, Jianyu Yu, Yifei Mao, Ji Chen, Suo Wang, Hua‐Zhou Chen, Yi Zhang, Siyi Wang, Xinjie Chen, Tao Li, Lin Zhou, Ren‐Min Ma, Shining Zhu, Wenshan Cai, Jia Zhu	156
13	Synthetic Engineering of Morphology and Electronic Band Gap in Lateral Heterostructures of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 2020 ·ACS Nano ·Hossein Taghinejad, Mohammad Taghinejad, Ali A. Eftekhar, Zhipeng Li, (unknown), Mohammad H. Javani, Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Xiang Zhang, Mengkun Tian, (unknown), Pulickel M. Ajayan, Eric M. Vogel, Su‐Fei Shi, Wenshan Cai, Ali Adibi	31
14	Dynamic processes in conjunction with microbial response to disclose the biochar effect on pentachlorophenol degradation under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions 2019 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Yan Xu, (unknown), Wenshan Cai, Jiayin Feng, Zhijiang Lu, Haizhen Wang, Ashley E. Franks, Caixian Tang, Yan He, Jianming Xu	38
15	Generative Model for the Inverse Design of Metasurfaces breakdown → 2018 ·Nano Letters ·Zhaocheng Liu, Dayu Zhu, Sean P. Rodrigues, Kyu‐Tae Lee, Wenshan Cai	701
16	3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Photonics ·Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan, Jingyang Wang, Weichao Xu, Ye Yuan, Wenshan Cai, Shining Zhu, Jia Zhu	1885
17	Self-limited plasmonic welding of silver nanowire junctions breakdown → 2012 ·Nature Materials ·Erik C. Garnett, Wenshan Cai, J. Judy, (unknown), Stephen T. Connor, M. Greyson Christoforo, Yi Cui, Michael D. McGehee, Mark L. Brongersma	1013
18	Designs of optical cloak with nonlinear transformations 2008 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Wenshan Cai, Vladimir M. Shalaev	2
19	Designs for optical cloaking with high-order transformations 2008 ·Optics Express ·Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev	94
20	The Ag dielectric function in plasmonic metamaterials 2008 ·Optics Express ·Vladimir P. Drachev, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Wenshan Cai, Vladimir M. Shalaev	225

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