Xianzhong Chen

10.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
120 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Xianzhong Chen is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianzhong Chen has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 44 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Xianzhong Chen's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (66 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (34 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (32 papers). Xianzhong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (66 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (34 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (32 papers). Xianzhong Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Xianzhong Chen's co-authors include Shuang Zhang, Lingling Huang, Thomas Zentgraf, Fuyong Yue, Guofan Jin, Holger Mühlenbernd, Qiaofeng Tan, Benfeng Bai, Guixin Li and Dandan Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xianzhong Chen

112 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Three-dimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface

2013 1.2k citations Xianzhong Chen, Jensen Li et al. profile →
Dual-polarity plasmonic metalens for visible light

2012 975 citations Xianzhong Chen, Shuang Zhang et al. profile →
Dispersionless Phase Discontinuities for Controlling Light Propagation

2012 869 citations Xianzhong Chen, Shuang Zhang et al. profile →
Helicity multiplexed broadband metasurface holograms

2015 849 citations Dandan Wen, Fuyong Yue et al. profile →
Vector Vortex Beam Generation with a Single Plasmonic Metasurface

2016 388 citations Fuyong Yue, Dandan Wen et al. ACS Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xianzhong Chen China	40	6.9k	4.1k	3.4k	3.1k	1.3k	120	8.6k
Guixin Li China	38	6.2k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	84	10.0k
Yinghui Guo China	44	4.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	206	6.7k
Jaewon Oh United States	13	4.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	921 0.7×	18	4.9k
Shuqi Chen China	55	6.1k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	210	8.1k
Xueqian Zhang China	48	6.5k 0.9×	3.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	3.5k 1.1×	3.2k 2.5×	186	8.5k
Guoxing Zheng China	36	5.8k 0.8×	3.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	135	7.0k
Shulin Sun China	39	6.2k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	100	7.7k
Guixin Li China	39	2.8k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	2.3k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	145	5.3k
Vin‐Cent Su Taiwan	16	3.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	877 0.7×	55	4.2k
Chih‐Ming Wang Taiwan	29	3.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	172	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianzhong Chen

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Ahmed, Hammad, Muhammad Afnan Ansari, Guanchao Wang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Detection Capability of Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(9). 2 indexed citations

Wang, Guannan, Xiaofei Zang, Teng Zhang, et al.. (2025). High-capacity directional information processor using all-optical multilayered neural networks. Science Advances. 11(47). eadu0904–eadu0904.

Chen, Qi, et al.. (2024). Lactoferrin: Current situation and future prospects. Food Bioscience. 62. 105183–105183. 10 indexed citations

Qi, Robert Z., Xianzhong Chen, Zihan Li, et al.. (2024). Tracking Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Flux with a pH-Resistant Fluorescent Reporter. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(1). 17–17. 1 indexed citations

Yue, Zengqi, Hammad Ahmed, Muhammad Afnan Ansari, et al.. (2024). Multispectral Polarization States Generation with a Single Metasurface. Laser & Photonics Review. 18(10). 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Metasurface‐Enabled Cascaded Multispectral Polarization Structures Along the Longitudinal Direction. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(11).

Wang, Guanchao, Hammad Ahmed, Muhammad Afnan Ansari, et al.. (2024). Creating Multispectral Grafted Perfect Vector Vortex Beams in a Queue. Laser & Photonics Review. 18(10). 15 indexed citations

Intaravanne, Yuttana, et al.. (2023). Metasurface-Enabled 3-in-1 Microscopy. ACS Photonics. 10(2). 544–551. 44 indexed citations

Liu, Chunxiao, Łukasz Pepłowski, Wei Shen, et al.. (2023). Efficient production of hydroxytyrosol by directed evolution of HpaB in Escherichia coli. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 663. 16–24. 10 indexed citations

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Ansari, Muhammad Afnan, et al.. (2023). Longitudinally variable 3D optical polarization structures. Science Advances. 9(47). 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Shaolin, Liang Liu, Zhijian Chen, et al.. (2023). Polarization-multiplexed metaholograms with erasable functionality. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 56(15). 155102–155102. 8 indexed citations

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Han, Jin, Yuttana Intaravanne, Ruoxing Wang, et al.. (2020). Optical Metasurfaces for Generation and Superposition of Optical Ring Vortex Beams. Laser & Photonics Review. 14(9). 46 indexed citations

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Yang, Haiquan, Liping Lu, & Xianzhong Chen. (2020). An overview and future prospects of sialic acids. Biotechnology Advances. 46. 107678–107678. 47 indexed citations

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Chen, Xianzhong, et al.. (2018). The application of low-noise DC-DC power source in fiber-optic gyroscope system. Guangdian gongcheng. 45(1). 170517.

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Wen, Dandan, et al.. (2018). Geometric Metasurfaces for Ultrathin Optical Devices. Advanced Optical Materials. 6(17). 69 indexed citations

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Yue, Fuyong, Xiaofei Zang, Dandan Wen, et al.. (2017). Geometric Phase Generated Optical Illusion. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11440–11440. 15 indexed citations

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Burch, J.M., Dandan Wen, Xianzhong Chen, & Andrea Di Falco. (2017). Conformable Holographic Metasurfaces. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4520–4520. 40 indexed citations

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Yue, Fuyong, Chunmei Zhang, Xiaofei Zang, et al.. (2017). High-resolution grayscale image hidden in a laser beam. Light Science & Applications. 7(1). 17129–17129. 165 indexed citations

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Chen, Xianzhong, Xueyong Wei, & Kyle Jiang. (2008). Large-scale fabrication of ordered metallic hybrid nanostructures. Optics Express. 16(16). 11888–11888. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Xianzhong, et al.. (2004). Classical simulation of atomic beam focusing and deposition for atom lithography. Chinese Optics Letters. 2(4). 187–189. 3 indexed citations

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