Xiao Yan

10.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
26 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Xiao Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiao Yan has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Materials Chemistry, 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiao Yan's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (18 papers), Thermal properties of materials (9 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (8 papers). Xiao Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (18 papers), Thermal properties of materials (9 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (8 papers). Xiao Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xiao Yan's co-authors include Zhifeng Ren, Gang Chen, Dezhi Wang, Yucheng Lan, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, Weishu Liu, Andrew Muto, Qing Hao and Austin J. Minnich and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiao Yan

25 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

2008 4.8k citations Bed Poudel, Qing Hao et al. Science profile →
High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration

2011 987 citations Daniel Kraemer, Bed Poudel et al. Nature Materials profile →
Recent advances in thermoelectric nanocomposites

2011 616 citations Weishu Liu, Xiao Yan et al. profile →
Experimental Studies on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties and Structures of n-Type Bi₂Te_2.7Se_0.3

2010 588 citations Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel et al. Nano Letters profile →
Thermoelectric Property Studies on Cu‐Doped n‐type Cu_xBi₂Te_2.7Se_0.3 Nanocomposites

2011 578 citations Weishu Liu, Qinyong Zhang et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiao Yan China	16	8.5k	3.0k	2.8k	1.8k	841	26	9.1k
Qing Hao United States	29	7.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	934 0.5×	538 0.6×	102	8.0k
Shengqiang Bai China	46	8.9k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	534 0.6×	104	9.4k
Bed Poudel United States	32	9.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	862 1.0×	87	10.3k
Jun Mao China	53	9.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	2.6k 1.5×	477 0.6×	160	9.8k
Andrew Muto United States	5	5.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	742 0.4×	518 0.6×	6	6.0k
Wenyu Zhao China	32	4.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	386 0.5×	174	5.5k
Lon E. Bell Australia	11	5.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	886 0.5×	478 0.6×	23	5.9k
Aaron D. LaLonde United States	24	8.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	4.6k 1.7×	1.7k 0.9×	601 0.7×	32	9.7k
Heng Wang China	39	15.8k 1.9×	3.0k 1.0×	8.1k 2.9×	3.4k 1.9×	895 1.1×	144	16.5k
Jean‐Pierre Fleurial United States	30	6.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	462 0.5×	137	7.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Xiao, et al.. (2025). Abolishment of N‐glycan trimming in the early Golgi triggers ferroptosis under salt stress in Arabidopsis root tips. New Phytologist. 249(1). 342–358.

Xu, Shuchang, et al.. (2023). FlexIcon: Flexible Icon Colorization via Guided Images and Palettes. 8662–8673. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Self-Driven Dual-Path Learning for Reference-Based Line Art Colorization Under Limited Data. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(3). 1388–1402. 5 indexed citations

Suh, Youngjoon, Xiao Yan, Soumyadip Sett, et al.. (2021). A Deep Learning Perspective on Dropwise Condensation (Adv. Sci. 22/2021). Advanced Science. 8(22). 1 indexed citations

Pan, S. S., Xiao Yan, Kai Guo, et al.. (2020). Embedded in-situ nanodomains from chemical composition fluctuation in thermoelectric A2Cu3In3Te8 (A = Zn, Cd). Materials Today Physics. 17. 100333–100333. 6 indexed citations

Peng, Jun, Ian T. Witting, Nicholas R. Geisendorfer, et al.. (2019). 3D extruded composite thermoelectric threads for flexible energy harvesting. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5590–5590. 70 indexed citations

Huang, Lihong, et al.. (2015). Recent progress in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Materials Research Bulletin. 76. 107–112. 190 indexed citations

Raju, C.V.L., Matthias Falmbigl, P. Rogl, et al.. (2013). Thermoelectric properties of chalcogenide based Cu2+xZnSn1−xSe4. AIP Advances. 3(3). 43 indexed citations

Yan, Xiao, Weishu Liu, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2013). Thermoelectric Property Study of Nanostructured p‐Type Half‐Heuslers (Hf, Zr, Ti)CoSb_0.8Sn_0.2. Advanced Energy Materials. 3(9). 1195–1200. 148 indexed citations

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Yan, Xiao, et al.. (2012). Electrochemically Deposited Thermoelectric Bismuth-Telluride Films. Advanced materials research. 557-559. 1811–1814. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Tian, et al.. (2012). Application of Inkjet Printing to Fabricate Controllable Pt Catalyst Patterns for Low Temperature Catalytic Combustion. Advanced materials research. 550-553. 257–260. 1 indexed citations

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Kraemer, Daniel, Bed Poudel, J. C. Caylor, et al.. (2011). High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration. Nature Materials. 10(7). 532–538. 987 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Weishu, Qinyong Zhang, Yucheng Lan, et al.. (2011). Thermoelectric Property Studies on Cu‐Doped n‐type Cu_xBi₂Te_2.7Se_0.3 Nanocomposites. Advanced Energy Materials. 1(4). 577–587. 578 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Xiao, Giri Joshi, Weishu Liu, et al.. (2011). Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers. Nano Letters. 11(2). 556–560. 351 indexed citations

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Joshi, Giri, Xiao Yan, Dandan Wang, et al.. (2011). Enhancement in Thermoelectric Figure‐Of‐Merit of an N‐Type Half‐Heusler Compound by the Nanocomposite Approach. Advanced Energy Materials. 1(4). 643–647. 279 indexed citations

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Ren, Zhifeng, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, et al.. (2009). Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by a Nanostructure Approach. MRS Proceedings. 1166. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenzhong, Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel, et al.. (2008). Chemical Synthesis of Anisotropic Nanocrystalline Sb₂Te₃ and Low Thermal Conductivity of the Compacted Dense Bulk. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 8(1). 452–456. 25 indexed citations

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Hao, Qing, Xiaowei Wang, Jian Yang, et al.. (2008). Nanostructured Thermoelectric Skutterudite Co_1−xNi_xSb₃ Alloys. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 8(8). 4003–4006. 25 indexed citations

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Poudel, Bed, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, et al.. (2008). High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys. Science. 320(5876). 634–638. 4795 indexed citations breakdown →

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He, Qinyu, Qing Hao, Xiaowei Wang, et al.. (2008). Nanostructured thermoelectric skutterudite Co(1-x)Ni(x)Sb3 alloys.. PubMed. 8(8). 4003–6. 1 indexed citations

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