Yi Xu

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yi Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Xu has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 44 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yi Xu's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (25 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (24 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (19 papers). Yi Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (25 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (24 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (19 papers). Yi Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Yi Xu's co-authors include Lin Wu, L. K. Ang, Ping Bai, Xiaodong Zhou, Wolfgang Knoll, Ching Eng Png, Yuriy Akimov, Xianqiang Mi, Yee Sin Ang and Guoyin Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yi Xu

78 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Optical Refractive Index Sensors with Plasmonic and Photonic Structures: Promising and Inconvenient Truth

2019 394 citations Yi Xu, L. K. Ang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Xu China	27	1.5k	1.0k	707	519	510	85	2.5k
Xuan Quyen Dinh Singapore	21	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	914 1.3×	416 0.8×	595 1.2×	47	2.6k
Rozalina Zakaria Malaysia	26	1.3k 0.8×	863 0.8×	223 0.3×	411 0.8×	425 0.8×	118	2.0k
Meng Lu United States	29	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	570 0.8×	799 1.5×	426 0.8×	118	2.7k
Denis Garoli Italy	27	607 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	672 1.0×	325 0.6×	694 1.4×	122	2.6k
Gang Logan Liu United States	27	484 0.3×	1.9k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	432 0.8×	375 0.7×	70	2.7k
Xuejin Li China	35	3.2k 2.1×	1.4k 1.3×	465 0.7×	543 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	149	4.2k
Ho‐Pui Ho Hong Kong	31	1.4k 1.0×	2.5k 2.4×	1.0k 1.5×	629 1.2×	792 1.6×	139	3.9k
Kotaro Kajikawa Japan	22	715 0.5×	875 0.8×	540 0.8×	632 1.2×	303 0.6×	137	1.9k
H.P. Ho Hong Kong	27	991 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	698 1.0×	413 0.8×	403 0.8×	133	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yi Xu. Yi Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Caixia, Yi Xu, Ruize Liu, et al.. (2025). Study of the difference in floatability between quartz and feldspar based on first principles. Chemical Physics. 592. 112612–112612. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Yi, Yan Li, Qiang Li, et al.. (2025). Broadband and High‐Resolution Mid‐Infrared Spectroscopy Enabled by a Single Phase Change Metasurface. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(8). 2 indexed citations

Yu, Changqiu, Qinqin Yu, Xinyu Shu, et al.. (2025). Spin Current with Z‐Polarization Generated by the Aligned Interfacial Spins of Ultrathin Metallic Antiferromagnetic Layer Under an In Situ Magnetic Field. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(45). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yaojun, et al.. (2025). Cascaded logic gate-based electrochemical analysis of multiple miRNAs for cancer recognition. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 282. 117468–117468.

Zhang, Yan, Guangyu Xu, Yi Xu, et al.. (2025). Rotation manipulating photonic spin Hall effect based on Au- ReS 2 -graphene heterostructure. Surfaces and Interfaces. 74. 107684–107684.

Zhang, Songtao, Yihao Chen, Wenhui Hu, et al.. (2025). A versatile derivation approach to synthesize porous heterometallic phosphide and sulfide nanospheres for boosted oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. Progress in Natural Science Materials International. 35(5). 1048–1054.

Xu, Yi, et al.. (2025). Overview of active terahertz metasurface devices based on liquid crystal. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays. 40(3). 407–423. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Zihan, et al.. (2024). Fast phase distortion identification and automatic distortion compensated reconstruction for digital holographic microscopy using deep learning. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 185. 108718–108718. 3 indexed citations

Shao, Jie, et al.. (2024). WSe2 modified U-shaped fiber surface plasmon resonance sensor with high sensitivity. Measurement. 241. 115711–115711. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, et al.. (2024). Development of an Electrochemical Microfluidic System with a Nanoscale Deoxyribonucleic Acid Framework for Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(14). 15950–15957. 4 indexed citations

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Pan, Jingshun, Qiang Li, Yi Xu, et al.. (2024). Cuffless Wearable Sphygmomanometers Using Dual Digital Optical Frequency Combs in Chalcogenide Chips. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(11). 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuting, Meng Liu, Wanxia Huang, et al.. (2024). Tunable C4-Symmetry-Broken Metasurfaces Based on Phase Transition of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2). Materials. 17(6). 1293–1293.

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Zhao, Xiaoshuang, et al.. (2023). Encoding fluorescence intensity with tetrahedron DNA nanostructure based FRET effect for bio-detection. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 248. 115994–115994. 10 indexed citations

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Su, Xi, Chuang Ge, Li Chen, & Yi Xu. (2021). Hydrogel-Based Sensing Detection of Bacteria. Huaxue jinzhan. 32(12). 1908. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, et al.. (2021). Subwavelength Broadband Photonic Spin Hall Devices via Optical Slot Antennas. Laser & Photonics Review. 15(5). 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingyun, Jiawei Dai, Jing Yang, et al.. (2019). Invertible plasmonic spin-Hall effect at nanoscale based on U-shaped optical slot nanoantenna. Nanotechnology. 30(34). 345201–345201. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanrong, Caixing Wang, Yi Xu, et al.. (2019). Hybrid Mg/Li-ion batteries enabled by Mg2+/Li+ co-intercalation in VS4 nanodendrites. Energy storage materials. 23. 741–748. 92 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Chang‐Yu Hsieh, Lin Wu, & L. K. Ang. (2018). Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides mediated long range surface plasmon resonance biosensors. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(6). 65101–65101. 87 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Lin Wu, & L. K. Ang. (2018). <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{MoS}_2$</tex-math> </inline-formula>-Based Highly Sensitive Near-Infrared Surface Plasmon Resonance Refractive Index Sensor. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 25(2). 1–7. 64 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, C.S. Premachandran, Nanguang Chen, et al.. (2007). A two axes scanning SOI MEMS micromirror for endoscopic bioimaging. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 18(2). 25001–25001. 70 indexed citations

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