Yu Yao

5.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
121 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 121 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, 38 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, Jing Kong, Yi Song, 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

109 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Electrically Tunable Metasurface Perfect Absorbers for Ultrathin Mid-Infrared Optical Modulators

2014 669 citations Yu Yao et al. Nano Letters profile →
Broad Electrical Tuning of Graphene-Loaded Plasmonic Antennas

2013 504 citations Yu Yao et al. Nano Letters profile →
Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

2012 449 citations Yu Yao et al. profile →
Nature-inspired chiral metasurfaces for circular polarization detection and full-Stokes polarimetric measurements

2019 292 citations Ali Basiri, Xiahui Chen et al. Light Science & Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Yao China	26	1.9k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	904	121	4.2k
Tarik Bourouina France	35	877 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	2.5k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	487 0.5×	234	4.7k
Hui Luo China	44	3.9k 2.0×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	823 0.7×	3.1k 3.4×	196	5.5k
Pan Wang China	35	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	289 0.3×	202	5.0k
Yaochun Shen United Kingdom	43	641 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	3.7k 2.4×	1.1k 1.0×	338 0.4×	221	6.4k
Liyang Shao China	42	539 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	5.3k 3.3×	2.1k 1.8×	236 0.3×	256	6.6k
Lei Zhao China	28	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	603 0.5×	598 0.7×	175	2.8k
K. Thyagarajan India	37	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	3.5k 2.2×	1.8k 1.6×	477 0.5×	277	5.7k
Hua Lü China	44	1.6k 0.8×	3.6k 2.1×	3.8k 2.4×	3.6k 3.1×	314 0.3×	173	6.0k
Xinke Wang China	36	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	155	4.2k
Minkyung Kim South Korea	35	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.6×	496 0.5×	132	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Yao

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Wang, Yi, et al.. (2025). Compact photoacoustic endoscopy by measuring initial photoacoustic pressure using phase-shift interferometry. Photoacoustics. 43. 100710–100710.

Cen, Z. H., Joseph G. Thomas, Bernadeta Srijanto, et al.. (2025). Room‐Temperature Mid‐Infrared Detection Using Metasurface‐Absorber‐Integrated Phononic Crystal Oscillator. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(20).

Yao, Yu, et al.. (2024). Emodin in-situ delivery with Pluronic F-127 hydrogel for myocardial infarction treatment: Enhancing efficacy and reducing hepatotoxicity. Life Sciences. 354. 122963–122963. 9 indexed citations

Faruque, Hossain Mansur Resalat, et al.. (2024). Field Deployable Mirror Soiling Detection Based on Polarimetric Imaging. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1.

Zuo, Jiawei, Jing Bai, Shinhyuk Choi, et al.. (2024). Metasurface‐Based Mueller Matrix Microscope. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 8 indexed citations

Choi, Shinhyuk, et al.. (2024). Scalable Nanoimprint Manufacturing of Functional Multilayer Metasurface Devices. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 16 indexed citations

Mao, Xufeng, et al.. (2023). Microbial Community Abundance Affects the Methane Ebullition Flux in Dahejia Reservoir of the Yellow River in the Warm Season. Diversity. 15(2). 154–154. 7 indexed citations

Zhu, Peng, Yu Yao, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). V0.5Nb0.5ZrTi refractory high-entropy alloy fabricated by laser addictive manufacturing using elemental powders. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials. 113. 106220–106220. 18 indexed citations

Bai, Jing, et al.. (2023). Toward Autonomous Field Inspection of CSP Collectors With a Polarimetric Imaging Drone. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Zuo, Jiawei, Jing Bai, Shinhyuk Choi, et al.. (2023). Chip-integrated metasurface full-Stokes polarimetric imaging sensor. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 218–218. 85 indexed citations

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Basiri, Ali, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast Graphene-Plasmonic Hybrid Metasurface Saturable Absorber with Low Saturation Fluence. ACS Nano. 17(11). 10431–10441. 20 indexed citations

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Basiri, Ali, et al.. (2022). Ultrafast low-pump fluence all-optical modulation based on graphene-metal hybrid metasurfaces. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 102–102. 45 indexed citations

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Bai, Jing & Yu Yao. (2021). Highly Efficient Anisotropic Chiral Plasmonic Metamaterials for Polarization Conversion and Detection. ACS Nano. 15(9). 14263–14274. 62 indexed citations

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Yao, Yu, Zhengqi Liu, Xiaoshan Liu, et al.. (2020). Recent progresses on metamaterials for optical absorption and sensing: a review. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(11). 113002–113002. 78 indexed citations

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Yao, Yu, Jin Zhou, Zhengqi Liu, et al.. (2020). Refractory materials and plasmonics based perfect absorbers. Nanotechnology. 32(13). 132002–132002. 23 indexed citations

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Bai, Jing, et al.. (2019). Chip-integrated plasmonic flat optics for mid-infrared full-Stokes polarization detection. Photonics Research. 7(9). 1051–1051. 69 indexed citations

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Basiri, Ali, Xiahui Chen, Jing Bai, et al.. (2019). Nature-inspired chiral metasurfaces for circular polarization detection and full-Stokes polarimetric measurements. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 78–78. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pacheco‐Peña, Víctor, Yu Yao, Wenxiang Chen, et al.. (2018). Nanoimprinted Chiral Plasmonic Substrates with Three-Dimensional Nanostructures. Nano Letters. 18(11). 7389–7394. 38 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiahui, et al.. (2017). Plasmonic Vertically Coupled Complementary Antennas for Dual-Mode Infrared Molecule Sensing. ACS Nano. 11(8). 8034–8046. 41 indexed citations

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Yao, Yu, Zongying Shi, & Yisheng Zhong. (2010). Robust output tracking controller design for a class of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems. Chinese Control Conference. 1960–1965. 1 indexed citations

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