Yu Yao

204 total papers · 5.4k total citations
120 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Yu Yao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Yao has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 37 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 26 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yu Yao's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (23 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (20 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (18 papers). Yu Yao is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (23 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (20 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (18 papers). Yu Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Austria. Yu Yao's co-authors include Federico Capasso, Yi Song, Jing Kong, Mikhail A. Kats, Claire Gmachl, Anthony J. Hoffman, Raji Shankar, Jing Bai, Marko Lončar and Chao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yu Yao

108 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Electrically Tunable Meta... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2014 2013 2012 2019 200 400 600
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Electrically Tunable Metasurface Perfect Absorbers for Ultrathin Mid-Infrared Optical Modulators
    2014 665 citations Yu Yao, Raji Shankar et al. Nano Letters profile →
  2. Broad Electrical Tuning of Graphene-Loaded Plasmonic Antennas
    2013 504 citations Yu Yao, Mikhail A. Kats et al. Nano Letters profile →
  3. Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers
    2012 448 citations Yu Yao, Anthony J. Hoffman et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  4. Nature-inspired chiral metasurfaces for circular polarization detection and full-Stokes polarimetric measurements
    2019 288 citations Ali Basiri, Xiahui Chen et al. Light Science & Applications profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yu Yao 1.9k 1.7k 1.6k 1.1k 897 120 4.2k
Aleksandar D. Rakić 1.5k 0.8× 2.8k 1.6× 4.1k 2.6× 2.4k 2.1× 326 0.4× 184 7.0k
Tarik Bourouina 870 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 2.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.1× 485 0.5× 234 4.6k
Glenn D. Boreman 1.8k 0.9× 2.7k 1.6× 2.5k 1.6× 1.7k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 265 5.7k
Hui Luo 3.9k 2.0× 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 819 0.7× 3.0k 3.4× 196 5.4k
Alexei A. Maradudin 1.3k 0.7× 2.5k 1.5× 1.3k 0.8× 2.7k 2.4× 196 0.2× 116 5.8k
Fei Gao 2.0k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 3.5k 3.1× 628 0.7× 200 5.8k
Hong Zhou 866 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 751 0.7× 323 0.4× 223 4.0k
Pan Wang 1.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.2× 2.2k 1.4× 995 0.9× 285 0.3× 202 4.9k
M. Pınar Mengüç 443 0.2× 1.2k 0.7× 524 0.3× 1.3k 1.1× 548 0.6× 197 5.6k
Guohua Zhu 1.6k 0.8× 2.5k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 151 0.2× 143 6.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Yao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Yao

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

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