Xin Ge Zhang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Xin Ge Zhang is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Ge Zhang has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 31 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xin Ge Zhang's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (36 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (29 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (20 papers). Xin Ge Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (36 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (29 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (20 papers). Xin Ge Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Bangladesh. Xin Ge Zhang's co-authors include Wei Jiang, Tie Jun Cui, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Han Wei Tian, Lin Bai, Ya Lun Sun, Qian Yu, Zhangjie Luo, Hao Jiang and Qiang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xin Ge Zhang

39 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

An optically driven digital metasurface for programming electromagnetic functions

2020 245 citations Xin Ge Zhang, Wei Jiang et al. Nature Electronics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin Ge Zhang China	15	994	926	430	142	131	41	1.2k
Lei Bao China	18	1.0k 1.0×	959 1.0×	284 0.7×	124 0.9×	136 1.0×	36	1.2k
Hamid Rajabalipanah Iran	19	854 0.9×	748 0.8×	285 0.7×	181 1.3×	139 1.1×	32	1.0k
Nader Komjani Iran	21	579 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	772 1.8×	276 1.9×	135 1.0×	102	1.4k
Jeremiah P. Turpin United States	14	531 0.5×	554 0.6×	247 0.6×	113 0.8×	141 1.1×	36	790
Zsolt Szabó Hungary	9	581 0.6×	636 0.7×	338 0.8×	117 0.8×	118 0.9×	35	894
Zheng Xing Wang China	23	993 1.0×	988 1.1×	472 1.1×	237 1.7×	216 1.6×	54	1.4k
Zahra Atlasbaf Iran	20	576 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	718 1.7×	248 1.7×	164 1.3×	139	1.5k
Han Wei Tian China	12	546 0.5×	523 0.6×	240 0.6×	82 0.6×	87 0.7×	20	705
Hong Bo Jing China	12	898 0.9×	857 0.9×	303 0.7×	106 0.7×	124 0.9×	18	1.0k

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Ya Lun Sun, Bingcheng Zhu, et al.. (2025). Wireless microwave-to-optical conversion via programmable metasurface without DC supply. Nature Communications. 16(1). 528–528. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Xin Ge, Bo Wang, Bingcheng Zhu, et al.. (2025). High‐Speed Laser‐to‐Microwave Wireless Transmissions through Dual‐Band Time‐Domain Optoelectronic Metasurface. Advanced Engineering Materials. 27(5). 2 indexed citations

Bai, Lin, et al.. (2025). Adaptive Electromagnetic Manipulation via Smart Metasurface with Ultrasonic Spatial Sensing. Small Structures. 6(11).

Tian, Han Wei, Ya Lun Sun, Xin Ge Zhang, et al.. (2025). Solar-powered light-modulated microwave programmable metasurface for sustainable wireless communications. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2524–2524. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Liang, et al.. (2024). Programmable metasurfaces with high angular stability for arbitrarily-polarized obliquely-incident waves. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 57(37). 375301–375301. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Ya Lun, Xin Ge Zhang, Zhixiang Huang, et al.. (2024). Remotely Controlled Laser‐Programmable Microwave Metasurfaces. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(16). 6 indexed citations

Jia, Yan, et al.. (2024). Programming Reflected and Transmitted Sound Behaviors Based on Motor‐Driven Digital Metasurface. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(48). 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Xin Ge, Ya Lun Sun, Zhixiang Huang, & Wei Jiang. (2023). A review of light‐controlled programmable metasurfaces for remote microwave control and hybrid signal processing. Engineering Reports. 5(9). 6 indexed citations

Jiang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Efficient digital metasurfaces for full-space manipulation of acoustic waves with low crosstalk between reflection and transmission. Materials & Design. 229. 111903–111903. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Ya Lun Sun, Bingcheng Zhu, et al.. (2022). A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 126–126. 96 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Ya Lun Sun, Bingcheng Zhu, et al.. (2022). Light-controllable time-domain digital coding metasurfaces. Advanced Photonics. 4(2). 25 indexed citations

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Tian, Han Wei, Xin Ge Zhang, Wei Jiang, et al.. (2022). Programmable Controlling of Multiple Spatial Harmonics via a Nonlinearly Phased Grating Metasurface. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(31). 29 indexed citations

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Bai, Lin, Xin Ge Zhang, & Wei Jiang. (2021). Dual-band Reconfigurable Fabry-Pérot Cavity Antenna Based on Metasurface. 192–193. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Wei Jiang, Hao Jiang, et al.. (2020). An optically driven digital metasurface for programming electromagnetic functions. Nature Electronics. 3(3). 165–171. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Qian Yu, Wei Jiang, et al.. (2020). Programmable Metasurfaces: Polarization‐Controlled Dual‐Programmable Metasurfaces (Adv. Sci. 11/2020). Advanced Science. 7(11). 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Qiang, Han Wei Tian, Wei Jiang, et al.. (2020). An Ultrawideband and Dual-Beam Scanning Array Antenna Charactered by Coding Method. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 19(12). 2211–2215. 4 indexed citations

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Tian, Han Wei, et al.. (2019). Generation of high-order orbital angular momentum beams and split beams simultaneously by employing anisotropic coding metasurfaces. Journal of Optics. 21(6). 65103–65103. 10 indexed citations

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Jiang, Wei & Xin Ge Zhang. (2019). Digital Metasurfaces Controlled by Light. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hao, Li Wu, Xin Ge Zhang, et al.. (2019). Computationally Efficient CN-PML for EM Simulations. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 67(12). 4646–4655. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin Ge, Wen Xuan Tang, Wei Jiang, et al.. (2018). Light‐Controllable Digital Coding Metasurfaces. Advanced Science. 5(11). 1801028–1801028. 156 indexed citations

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