Y. R. Shen

27.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
211 papers, 22.3k citations indexed

About

Y. R. Shen is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Y. R. Shen has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 42 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Y. R. Shen's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (88 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (46 papers) and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (29 papers). Y. R. Shen is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (88 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (46 papers) and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (29 papers). Y. R. Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Y. R. Shen's co-authors include Feng Wang, Alex Zettl, Çağlar Girit, Michael C. Martin, Zhao Hao, Yuanbo Zhang, Michael F. Crommie, N. Bloembergen, Chuanshan Tian and Gábor A. Somorjai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Y. R. Shen

205 papers receiving 21.4k 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.

Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene

2009 2.9k citations Yuanbo Zhang, Tsung‐Ta Tang et al. profile →
Graphene plasmonics for tunable terahertz metamaterials

2011 2.4k citations Baisong Geng, Çağlar Girit et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Surface properties probed by second-harmonic and sum-frequency generation

1989 2.0k citations Y. R. Shen profile →
Gate-Variable Optical Transitions in Graphene

2008 1.3k citations Feng Wang, Yuanbo Zhang et al. profile →
Mapping molecular orientation and conformation at interfaces by surface nonlinear optics

1999 749 citations Xiaowei Zhuang, Y. R. Shen et al. profile →
Surface Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobicity

1994 695 citations Y. R. Shen et al. profile →
Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of a Langmuir film: Study of molecular orientation of a two-dimensional system

1987 569 citations Y. R. Shen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
STUDIES OF POLYMER SURFACES BY SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

2002 511 citations Y. R. Shen et al. profile →
Theory of Stimulated Brillouin and Raman Scattering

1965 501 citations Y. R. Shen et al. profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Y. R. Shen

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The effect of auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention in aging 2025 ·Frontiers in Psychology ·Zhihan Xu, Juan Huang, Y. R. Shen, Yanna Ren, (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Parameter adjustable mid-infrared ultra-short pulse-burst laser around 2.94 μm 2025 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), Bowen Zheng, Xupeng Wang, Xinxin Jin, Zhihong Li, Yanmin Duan, Haiyong Zhu, Y. R. Shen	0
3	High beam quality continuous-wave 320 nm UV laser from a walk-off compensated intracavity frequency-doubled Pr:YLF laser 2024 ·Applied Optics ·(unknown), Bo Wu, Y. R. Shen	2
4	Unconventional structural evolution of an oxide surface in water unveiled by in situ sum-frequency spectroscopy 2024 ·Nature Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Simone Pezzotti, Xinyi Liu, (unknown), Huiling Chen, Ying Li, (unknown), Xin Lin, (unknown), Yuchong Wang, Y. R. Shen, Marie‐Pierre Gaigeot, Wei-Tao Liu	9
5	Frequency stabilization of multiwavelength lasers based on Pound-Drever-Hall technique 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Peipei Jiang, Y. R. Shen	0
6	Gate-Controlled Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy for Probing Charged Oxide/Water Interfaces 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Hongqing Wang, Qian Xu, Zhihua Liu, Yiming Tang, Guanghong Wei, Y. R. Shen, Wei-Tao Liu	24
7	Optical Control of Surface Anchoring and Reorientation of Liquid Crystals via a Plasmon-Enhanced Local Field 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jingxuan Shan, (unknown), Lu Liu, Y. R. Shen, Lei Xu	11
8	Large aperture PPMgLN based high-power optical parametric oscillator at 38 µm pumped by a nanosecond linearly polarized fiber MOPA 2012 ·Optics Express ·Dejiao Lin, Shaif-ul Alam, Y. R. Shen, Tao Chen, Bo Wu, David J. Richardson	34
9	Nonlinear responses in optical metamaterials: theory and experiment 2011 ·Optics Express ·Shiwei Tang, David Cho, Hao Xu, Wei Wu, Y. R. Shen, Lei Zhou	18
10	A tunable phonon–exciton Fano system in bilayer graphene 2009 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Tsung‐Ta Tang, Yuanbo Zhang, Cheol-Hwan Park, Baisong Geng, Çağlar Girit, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie, Y. R. Shen, Feng Wang	141
11	Compact dual-wavelength Nd:GdVO_4 laser working at 1063 and 1065 nm 2009 ·Optics Express ·Bo Wu, Peipei Jiang, Dingzhong Yang, Tao Chen, Jian Kong, Y. R. Shen	97
12	Characterization of Vibrational Resonances of Water-Vapor Interfaces by Phase-Sensitive Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy 2008 ·Physical Review Letters ·Na Ji, Victor Ostroverkhov, Chuanshan Tian, Y. R. Shen	308
13	Multiphonon Raman Scattering from Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 2007 ·Physical Review Letters ·Feng Wang, Wei-Tao Liu, Yang Wu, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Limin Huang, James Hone, Stephen O’Brien, Louis E. Brus, Tony F. Heinz, Y. R. Shen	20
14	Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 2007 ·Physical Review Letters ·Feng Wang, David Cho, Brian Kessler, Jack Deslippe, P. James Schuck, Steven G. Louie, Alex Zettl, Tony F. Heinz, Y. R. Shen	116
15	General Properties of Local Plasmons in Metal Nanostructures 2006 ·Physical Review Letters ·Feng Wang, Y. R. Shen	425
16	Dynamics of the guest-host orientational interaction in dye-doped liquid-crystalline materials 2005 ·Physical Review E ·Thai V. Truong, Lei Xu, Y. R. Shen	24
17	Sapphire-fiber thermometer ranging from 20 to 1800 °C 1999 ·Applied Optics ·Y. R. Shen, Limin Tong, Yanqi Wang, Linhua Ye	50
18	Surface-Monolayer-Induced Bulk Alignment of Liquid Crystals 1994 ·Physical Review Letters ·Xiaowei Zhuang, Lorenzo Marrucci, Y. R. Shen	97
19	Go nonlinear!--NLO'92 1992 ·Optics and Photonics News ·M. Khoshnevisan, H. M. Gibbs, (unknown), Y. R. Shen	1
20	Optical nonlinearity and bistability in liquid crystals 1984 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Y. R. Shen	17

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