Yixuan Zeng

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 841 citations indexed

About

Yixuan Zeng is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yixuan Zeng has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 841 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yixuan Zeng's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (12 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (9 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (6 papers). Yixuan Zeng is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (12 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (9 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (6 papers). Yixuan Zeng collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Yixuan Zeng's co-authors include Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Guangwei Hu, Yuri S. Kivshar, Zhixiang Tang, Andrea Alù, Tan Shi, Junjie Li, Zi‐Lan Deng, Xiangping Li and Guangzhou Geng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yixuan Zeng

21 papers receiving 786 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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  1. Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum
    2022 348 citations Tan Shi, Zi‐Lan Deng et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yixuan Zeng China 13 553 425 326 262 240 21 841
Yutao Tang China 14 692 1.3× 556 1.3× 527 1.6× 259 1.0× 309 1.3× 30 1.0k
Pavel D. Terekhov Russia 11 466 0.8× 362 0.9× 477 1.5× 217 0.8× 176 0.7× 23 726
Kingfai Li China 12 871 1.6× 626 1.5× 556 1.7× 398 1.5× 318 1.3× 21 1.2k
Xinbo Sha China 6 389 0.7× 330 0.8× 239 0.7× 160 0.6× 194 0.8× 10 619
Yuebian Zhang China 14 621 1.1× 338 0.8× 401 1.2× 315 1.2× 224 0.9× 22 810
Tan Shi China 9 678 1.2× 406 1.0× 360 1.1× 376 1.4× 225 0.9× 11 895
Ekaterina Poutrina United States 14 463 0.8× 328 0.8× 422 1.3× 160 0.6× 222 0.9× 26 686
Carlos García‐Meca Spain 14 548 1.0× 339 0.8× 468 1.4× 271 1.0× 289 1.2× 44 879
Carlo Rizza Italy 19 435 0.8× 523 1.2× 412 1.3× 161 0.6× 349 1.5× 66 949
Hammad Ahmed United Kingdom 14 568 1.0× 397 0.9× 268 0.8× 305 1.2× 174 0.7× 31 765

Countries citing papers authored by Yixuan Zeng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yixuan Zeng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yixuan Zeng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yixuan Zeng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yixuan Zeng 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 Yixuan Zeng. Yixuan Zeng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zeng, Yixuan, Zi Wang, Fangxing Lai, et al.. (2025). Ultra narrowband geometric-phase resonant metasurfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(15). e2420830122–e2420830122. 5 indexed citations
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Deng, Huachun, Yixuan Zeng, Shumin Xiao, et al.. (2025). Chiral lasing enabled by strong coupling. Science Advances. 11(15). eads9562–eads9562. 4 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, Xinbo Sha, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2025). Metalasers with arbitrarily shaped wavefront. Nature. 643(8074). 1240–1245. 5 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Gear Transmission System with Localized Defects. Machines. 13(4). 272–272. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yingjie, et al.. (2024). Recent progress on structural coloration. 3(2). R03–R03. 15 indexed citations
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Du, Kang, et al.. (2024). Nanostructure-based orbital angular momentum encryption and multiplexing. Nanoscale. 16(18). 8807–8819. 3 indexed citations
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Sha, Xinbo, Kang Du, Yixuan Zeng, et al.. (2024). Chirality tuning and reversing with resonant phase-change metasurfaces. Science Advances. 10(21). eadn9017–eadn9017. 39 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, Xudong Zhang, Xu Ouyang, et al.. (2024). Manipulating Light with Bound States in the Continuum: from Passive to Active Systems. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(25). 14 indexed citations
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Qin, Haoye, Zengping Su, Mengqi Liu, et al.. (2023). Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 66–66. 68 indexed citations
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Shi, Tan, Zi‐Lan Deng, Guangzhou Geng, et al.. (2022). Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4111–4111. 348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zeng, Yixuan, Guangwei Hu, Guangtao Cao, et al.. (2022). Bound states in the continuum on flatbands of symmetry-broken photonic crystal slabs. Journal of Optics. 24(5). 54009–54009. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Guangtao, Chen Zhao, Shaohua Dong, et al.. (2022). Polarization-insensitive unidirectional meta-retroreflector. Optics & Laser Technology. 156. 108497–108497. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chen, Shaohua Dong, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Magnetic modulation of topological polarization singularities in momentum space. Optics Letters. 47(11). 2754–2754. 13 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, et al.. (2021). Dynamics of Topological Polarization Singularity in Momentum Space. Physical Review Letters. 127(17). 176101–176101. 122 indexed citations
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Cao, Guangtao, He‐Xiu Xu, Lei‐Ming Zhou, et al.. (2021). Infrared metasurface-enabled compact polarization nanodevices. Materials Today. 50. 499–515. 70 indexed citations
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Xu, He‐Xiu, Mingzhao Wang, Guangwei Hu, et al.. (2021). Adaptable Invisibility Management Using Kirigami-Inspired Transformable Metamaterials. Research. 2021. 34 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, et al.. (2020). A Fast and Accurate Method for Computing the Microwave Heating of Moving Objects. Applied Sciences. 10(8). 2985–2985. 12 indexed citations
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Zhuang, Wu, Zhixiang Tang, Yixuan Zeng, et al.. (2019). A Graphite-Based Metamaterial Microwave Absorber. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 18(5). 1016–1020. 29 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuejiao, Xupeng Zhu, Huimin Shi, et al.. (2018). Three-Dimensional-Stacked Gold Nanoparticles with Sub-5 nm Gaps on Vertically Aligned TiO2 Nanosheets for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection Down to 10 fM Scale. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(41). 35607–35614. 36 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yixuan, et al.. (2018). Reversing the sign of the effective nonlinear coefficient of a nearly isotropic Kerr photonic crystal via the local-field effect. Optical Materials Express. 8(8). 2256–2256. 1 indexed citations

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