Yang Chen

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
228 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yang Chen is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Chen has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yang Chen's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (42 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (30 papers). Yang Chen is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (42 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (30 papers). Yang Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Yang Chen's co-authors include Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Jie Gao, Xiaodong Yang, Jiaru Chu, Jincheng Ni, Weijin Chen, Trevon Badloe, Minkyung Kim, Younghwan Yang and Junsuk Rho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yang Chen

206 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena

2020 436 citations Jungho Mun, Minkyung Kim et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
Observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum

2023 380 citations Yang Chen, Weijin Chen et al. profile →
Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing

2020 265 citations Liangui Deng, Juan Deng et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
A Fully Phase‐Modulated Metasurface as An Energy‐Controllable Circular Polarization Router

2020 238 citations Yueyi Yuan, Shang Sun et al. Advanced Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Chen China	37	2.5k	2.2k	1.9k	1.7k	913	228	5.5k
Jian Chen China	39	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	3.4k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	373	6.2k
C. Sibilia Italy	34	2.8k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	480 0.5×	309	5.3k
Ting S. Luk United States	44	3.2k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	3.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	162	7.2k
Jungho Mun South Korea	30	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.0×	871 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	617 0.7×	66	4.0k
Pavel Ginzburg Israel	36	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 1.4×	607 0.7×	179	4.4k
Peiheng Wu China	40	2.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	2.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	411	6.4k
Timothy J. Davis Australia	42	1.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.6k 2.1×	204 0.2×	192	6.7k
M. Walther Germany	41	3.0k 1.2×	995 0.4×	4.5k 2.3×	1.5k 0.9×	471 0.5×	200	6.3k
Kun Huang China	34	3.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	95	5.2k
J. J. Sáenz Spain	48	5.1k 2.1×	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	3.4k 2.0×	338 0.4×	184	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Chen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ye, Dingding, Yang Chen, Jun Li, et al.. (2025). Role of Patterned Wettability of Anode Porous Transport Layer in Enhancing Two-Phase Transport for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(23). 34073–34085.

Jiang, Hao, Yan Zhang, Liang An, et al.. (2025). Chiral light detection with centrosymmetric-metamaterial-assisted valleytronics. Nature Materials. 24(6). 861–867. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yang, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty quantification of the inlet boundary conditions in a supercritical CO2 centrifugal compressor based on the non-intrusive polynomial chaos. Energy. 310. 133166–133166. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Processing and implementation of tilted photography 3D model tiles based on cesium. 45. 251–251.

Chen, Weijin, Zhenyu Wang, M. V. Gorkunov, et al.. (2024). Uncovering Maximum Chirality in Resonant Nanostructures. Nano Letters. 24(31). 9643–9649. 17 indexed citations

Ye, Mengyuan, Yang Chen, Jianping Li, et al.. (2023). Large steering range and low-loss integrated optical phased array with SiN-Si dual-layer non-uniform antenna. Optics Express. 31(26). 44564–44564. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2022). Gas-phase optical absorption spectra of the indene cation (C ₉ H ₈ ⁺ ). Molecular Physics. 121(17-18). 5 indexed citations

Dong, Zhaogang, Lei Jin, Soroosh Daqiqeh Rezaei, et al.. (2022). Schrödinger’s red pixel by quasi-bound-states-in-the-continuum. Science Advances. 8(8). eabm4512–eabm4512. 105 indexed citations

Wei, Jingxuan, Yang Chen, Ying Li, et al.. (2022). Geometric filterless photodetectors for mid-infrared spin light. Nature Photonics. 69 indexed citations

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Ni, Jincheng, Shunli Liu, Yang Chen, et al.. (2022). Direct Observation of Spin–Orbit Interaction of Light via Chiroptical Responses. Nano Letters. 22(22). 9013–9019. 13 indexed citations

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Tao, Quanyang, Ruixia Wu, Qianyuan Li, et al.. (2021). Reconfigurable electronics by disassembling and reassembling van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1825–1825. 46 indexed citations

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Zhang, Miaomiao, et al.. (2021). Using Fluorescence On/Off to Trace Tandem Nanofiber Assembly/Disassembly in Living Cells. Analytical Chemistry. 93(14). 5665–5669. 19 indexed citations

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Muhammad, Naseer, Yang Chen, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, & Guo Ping Wang. (2021). Optical Bound States in Continuum in MoS₂-Based Metasurface for Directional Light Emission. Nano Letters. 21(2). 967–972. 92 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, Lin Chen, Yang Chen, Yi Bin, & Jie Chen. (2020). Role of NOX/ROS in 5-HT-mediated proliferation of rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Liu, Yinping, Lin Ma, Junjie Xiong, et al.. (2020). High-Speed Performance Evaluation of Graded-Index Multicore Fiber Compatible With Multimode and Quasi-single Mode Operation. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 38(24). 6870–6878. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Guangtao, Shaohua Dong, Lei‐Ming Zhou, et al.. (2020). Fano Resonance in Artificial Photonic Molecules. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(10). 51 indexed citations

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Deng, Liangui, Juan Deng, Zhiqiang Guan, et al.. (2020). Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing. Light Science & Applications. 9(1). 101–101. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mun, Jungho, Minkyung Kim, Younghwan Yang, et al.. (2020). Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena. Light Science & Applications. 9(1). 139–139. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yuan, Yueyi, Shang Sun, Yang Chen, et al.. (2020). A Fully Phase‐Modulated Metasurface as An Energy‐Controllable Circular Polarization Router. Advanced Science. 7(18). 2001437–2001437. 238 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kuang, Dengfeng, et al.. (2020). Solution Classification With Portable Smartphone-Based Spectrometer System Under Variant Shooting Conditions by Using Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Sensors Journal. 20(15). 8789–8796. 5 indexed citations

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