Xiaoyang Zhu

30.9k total citations · 22 hit papers
315 papers, 24.9k citations indexed

About

Xiaoyang Zhu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoyang Zhu has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 24.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 173 papers in Materials Chemistry and 114 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Xiaoyang Zhu's work include 2D Materials and Applications (76 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (73 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (65 papers). Xiaoyang Zhu is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (76 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (73 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (65 papers). Xiaoyang Zhu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Xiaoyang Zhu's co-authors include Kiyoshi Miyata, M. Tuan Trinh, Haiming Zhu, Yongping Fu, Song Jin, Xiaoxi Wu, Jue Wang, John White, Vitaly Podzorov and William A. Tisdale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoyang Zhu

306 papers receiving 24.5k citations

Hit Papers

Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale:  Current Status 1991 2026 2002 2014 2003 2015 2019 2010 2016 250 500 750
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.

  1. Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale:  Current Status
    2003 872 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  2. Trap States in Lead Iodide Perovskites
    2015 870 citations M. Tuan Trinh, Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  3. Metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications and the study of physical properties
    2019 752 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  4. Hot-Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals
    2010 742 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  5. Screening in crystalline liquids protects energetic carriers in hybrid perovskites
    2016 683 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  6. Correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
    2020 672 citations En-Min Shih, Augusto Ghiotto et al. profile →
  7. Large polarons in lead halide perovskites
    2017 576 citations M. Tuan Trinh, Xiaoyang Zhu et al. Science Advances profile →
  8. Broad Wavelength Tunable Robust Lasing from Single-Crystal Nanowires of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, I)
    2016 534 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  9. Charge Carriers in Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites Might Be Protected as Large Polarons
    2015 493 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  10. Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems
    2017 488 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. Nature profile →
  11. Mechanism for Broadband White-Light Emission from Two-Dimensional (110) Hybrid Perovskites
    2016 474 citations M. Tuan Trinh, Xiaoyang Zhu et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  12. Observing the Multiexciton State in Singlet Fission and Ensuing Ultrafast Multielectron Transfer
    2011 461 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  13. Photochemistry at adsorbate/metal interfaces
    1991 451 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  14. Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Helical Perylene Diimide Electron Acceptors
    2014 408 citations M. Tuan Trinh, Matthew Y. Sfeir et al. profile →
  15. Extended carrier lifetimes and diffusion in hybrid perovskites revealed by Hall effect and photoconductivity measurements
    2016 391 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. Disassembling 2D van der Waals crystals into macroscopic monolayers and reassembling into artificial lattices
    2020 340 citations Wenjing Wu, Yusong Bai et al. profile →
  17. Triplet Pair States in Singlet Fission
    2019 327 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. profile →
  18. Quantitative Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Bipentacenes
    2015 327 citations Samuel N. Sanders, Elango Kumarasamy et al. profile →
  19. Magnetic Order and Symmetry in the 2D Semiconductor CrSBr
    2021 279 citations Kihong Lee, Avalon H. Dismukes et al. profile →
  20. Reversible strain-induced magnetic phase transition in a van der Waals magnet
    2022 189 citations Kaichen Xie, Avalon H. Dismukes et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  21. Continuous‐Wave Lasing in Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanowires
    2017 169 citations Xiaoyang Zhu et al. Advanced Optical Materials profile →
  22. Exciton-coupled coherent magnons in a 2D semiconductor
    2022 155 citations Daniel G. Chica, Michael E. Ziebel et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaoyang Zhu United States 77 16.2k 15.3k 7.4k 2.4k 2.3k 315 24.9k
Leeor Kronik Israel 73 12.0k 0.7× 11.8k 0.8× 7.6k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 288 21.2k
Frank Schreiber Germany 64 11.3k 0.7× 8.6k 0.6× 4.3k 0.6× 3.0k 1.3× 2.5k 1.1× 408 17.9k
Oleg V. Prezhdo United States 91 13.9k 0.9× 18.3k 1.2× 8.7k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 576 28.4k
Sergei Tretiak United States 81 18.4k 1.1× 19.5k 1.3× 7.5k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 5.3k 2.3× 452 30.5k
Richard D. Schaller United States 76 15.6k 1.0× 17.4k 1.1× 5.0k 0.7× 4.4k 1.8× 1.6k 0.7× 356 23.3k
Pablo Ordejón Spain 59 14.3k 0.9× 21.3k 1.4× 11.2k 1.5× 3.3k 1.3× 687 0.3× 202 30.2k
Emilio Artacho Spain 52 9.8k 0.6× 16.7k 1.1× 8.5k 1.1× 2.7k 1.1× 621 0.3× 180 24.4k
Omar F. Mohammed Saudi Arabia 95 27.4k 1.7× 28.1k 1.8× 4.9k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 4.8k 2.1× 457 37.3k
Justin C. Johnson United States 54 12.2k 0.8× 15.7k 1.0× 3.4k 0.5× 4.5k 1.9× 1.3k 0.6× 158 21.5k
Kazuhiko Seki Japan 63 11.3k 0.7× 7.6k 0.5× 3.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 3.4k 1.5× 548 19.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoyang Zhu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Handa, Taketo, Daniel G. Chica, Apoorv Jindal, et al.. (2026). Anderson Localization in a Two-Dimensional Metal. Physical Review Letters. 136(9). 96401–96401.
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Wang, Yiping, Eric Anderson, Ian Li, et al.. (2025). Hidden states and dynamics of fractional fillings in twisted MoTe2 bilayers. Nature. 641(8065). 1149–1155. 7 indexed citations
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Arsenault, Eric A., Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2025). Time-domain signatures of distinct correlated insulators in a moiré superlattice. Nature Communications. 16(1). 549–549. 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Chun‐Ying, Daniel G. Chica, Zhi‐Hao Cui, et al.. (2025). Coupling of electronic transition to ferroelectric order in a 2D semiconductor. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1896–1896. 2 indexed citations
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Handa, Taketo, L. Huber, Hai I. Wang, et al.. (2024). Spontaneous exciton dissociation in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Science Advances. 10(5). eadj4060–eadj4060. 26 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xinghua, Zhou Liu, Qingguo Feng, et al.. (2023). First Principles Study of Atomic Oxygen Adsorption on Austenitic Stainless Steels Surfaces: A Theoretical Study. Coatings. 13(2). 455–455. 1 indexed citations
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Urban, J., Feifan Wang, Bo Xiang, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear terahertz control of the lead halide perovskite lattice. Science Advances. 9(21). eadg3856–eadg3856. 22 indexed citations
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Telford, Evan J., Daniel G. Chica, Michael E. Ziebel, et al.. (2023). Designing Magnetic Properties in CrSBr through Hydrostatic Pressure and Ligand Substitution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(11). 16 indexed citations
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Guizzardi, Michele, Qiuyang Li, Giorgio Mancini, et al.. (2022). Near-Infrared Plasmon-Induced Hot Electron Extraction Evidence in an Indium Tin Oxide Nanoparticle/Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Heterostructure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(42). 9903–9909. 13 indexed citations
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Mooshammer, Fabian, Sang Hoon Chae, Shuai Zhang, et al.. (2022). In-Plane Anisotropy in Biaxial ReS2 Crystals Probed by Nano-Optical Imaging of Waveguide Modes. ACS Photonics. 9(2). 443–451. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Qiuyang, et al.. (2021). Ultrafast evolution of the complex dielectric function of monolayer WS2 after photoexcitation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(39). 22640–22646. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Jingjing, Jake C. Russell, Songsheng Tao, et al.. (2021). Superatomic solid solutions. Nature Chemistry. 13(6). 607–613. 26 indexed citations
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Yao, Kaiyuan, Nathan Finney, Jin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Tunable Second Harmonic Generation from Twistable Interfaces and Vertical Superlattices in Boron Nitride Homostructures. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 7 indexed citations
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McGilly, L. J., Alexander Kerelsky, Nathan Finney, et al.. (2020). Visualization of moiré superlattices. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 580–584. 247 indexed citations
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Telford, Evan J., Avalon H. Dismukes, Kihong Lee, et al.. (2020). Layered Antiferromagnetism Induces Large Negative Magnetoresistance in the van der Waals Semiconductor CrSBr. Advanced Materials. 32(37). e2003240–e2003240. 218 indexed citations
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Ghiotto, Augusto, Lei Wang, En-Min Shih, et al.. (2020). Magic continuum in twisted bilayer WSe 2 : critical phenomena and phase transitions. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Hao, Yangyang, Liangyu Zhang, Xiang Wang, et al.. (2017). Effects of camptothecin on the autophagy of HaCaT cells. Chinese Journal of Dermatology. 50(2). 86–90.
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Trinh, M. Tuan, Andrew Pinkard, Andrew B. Pun, et al.. (2017). Distinct properties of the triplet pair state from singlet fission. Science Advances. 3(7). e1700241–e1700241. 113 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaoyang & James J. Cimino. (2006). The Practical Impact of Ontologies on Biomedical Informatics. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 15(1). 124–135. 68 indexed citations

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