Zhaowei Liu

15.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
191 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Zhaowei Liu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhaowei Liu has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 86 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 68 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Zhaowei Liu's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (70 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (68 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (35 papers). Zhaowei Liu is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (70 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (68 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (35 papers). Zhaowei Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Zhaowei Liu's co-authors include Xiang Zhang, Cheng Sun, Yi Xiong, Hyesog Lee, Dylan Lu, Haoliang Qian, Guy Bartal, Nicholas X. Fang, Yuan Wang and Jennifer M. Steele and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zhaowei Liu

179 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects

2007 1.7k citations Zhaowei Liu, Hyesog Lee et al. Science profile →
Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

2008 1.0k citations Xiang Zhang, Zhaowei Liu profile →
Optical Negative Refraction in Bulk Metamaterials of Nanowires

2008 717 citations Zhaowei Liu, Yuan Wang et al. Science profile →
Hyperlenses and metalenses for far-field super-resolution imaging

2012 470 citations Zhaowei Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Enhancing spontaneous emission rates of molecules using nanopatterned multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials

2014 378 citations Eric E. Fullerton, Zhaowei Liu et al. profile →
Optical edge detection based on high-efficiency dielectric metasurface

2019 355 citations Junxiao Zhou, Haoliang Qian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhaowei Liu United States	50	6.5k	6.4k	4.4k	2.6k	2.3k	191	11.7k
Hatice Altug Switzerland	54	8.4k 1.3×	6.3k 1.0×	3.7k 0.8×	4.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.5×	137	12.0k
Yongmin Liu United States	57	5.5k 0.9×	7.0k 1.1×	5.0k 1.1×	3.5k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	237	12.8k
Xiaocong Yuan China	54	8.1k 1.3×	4.6k 0.7×	9.9k 2.3×	4.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.5×	545	14.8k
Boris Luk’yanchuk Singapore	56	12.7k 2.0×	8.8k 1.4×	8.3k 1.9×	4.9k 1.9×	2.6k 1.1×	231	18.3k
Olivier J. F. Martin Switzerland	61	12.0k 1.9×	8.6k 1.3×	6.2k 1.4×	5.1k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	337	16.1k
Kenneth B. Crozier United States	59	8.7k 1.3×	5.4k 0.8×	4.3k 1.0×	5.0k 2.0×	773 0.3×	233	12.9k
Guy Bartal Israel	42	6.5k 1.0×	6.2k 1.0×	6.9k 1.6×	3.8k 1.5×	2.1k 0.9×	128	12.7k
Jinghua Teng Singapore	50	4.9k 0.8×	5.7k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	3.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	285	10.9k
Joel K. W. Yang Singapore	60	7.3k 1.1×	6.6k 1.0×	4.8k 1.1×	4.4k 1.7×	1.3k 0.6×	218	14.1k
Carsten Rockstuhl Germany	61	8.8k 1.4×	9.8k 1.5×	6.3k 1.4×	5.3k 2.1×	3.4k 1.5×	470	16.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhaowei Liu

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Lee, Hongki, et al.. (2025). Random Metastructures for Nanoscale Visualization of Single-Exosome Dynamics in a Gut–Brain-Axis-on-a-Chip. ACS Nano. 19(33). 30349–30360.

Lee, Yeon Ui, Shilong Li, Junxiang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Metamaterial‐Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy with Exceptional Axial Resolution. Advanced Science. 11(39). e2404883–e2404883. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Junxiao, et al.. (2024). Inverse design of metasurface based off-axis image relay. Optics Express. 32(9). 15115–15115.

Liu, Zhaowei, et al.. (2024). Complete asymmetric polarization conversion at zero‐eigenvalue exceptional points of non‐Hermitian metasurfaces. Nanophotonics. 13(24). 4409–4416. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Junxiang, Jie Hu, Junxiao Zhou, et al.. (2024). Deep Learning Assisted Plasmonic Dark-Field Microscopy for Super-Resolution Label-Free Imaging. Nano Letters. 24(49). 15724–15730. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Qingying, Zhongping Xu, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of genome sequences of the two cultivated tetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum (L.) and G. barbadense (L.). Industrial Crops and Products. 196. 116471–116471. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Junxiao, et al.. (2023). Tunable dielectric BIC metasurface for high resolution optical filters. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 56(13). 134002–134002. 8 indexed citations

Dickstein, E. R., Ana Maria Bocsanczy, Jeffrey B. Jones, et al.. (2023). Recovery Plan for Ralstonia solanacearum Race 3 Biovar 2 (Phylotype IIB, Sequevars 1 and 2) Causing Brown Rot of Potato, Bacterial Wilt of Tomato, and Southern Wilt of Geranium. Plant Health Progress. 25(1). 98–139. 2 indexed citations

Sheng, Jingwei, et al.. (2021). Neural representations of imagined speech revealed by frequency-tagged magnetoencephalography responses. NeuroImage. 229. 117724–117724. 20 indexed citations

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Aratboni, Hossein Alishah, Nahid Rafiei, Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, et al.. (2021). LED control of gene expression in a nanobiosystem composed of metallic nanoparticles and a genetically modified E. coli strain. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 19(1). 190–190. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Yeon Ui, Clara Posner, Junxiang Zhao, et al.. (2021). Organic Hyperbolic Material Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. Advanced Science. 8(22). e2102230–e2102230. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Yeon Ui, Junxiang Zhao, Gary Mo, et al.. (2020). Metamaterial-Assisted Photobleaching Microscopy with Nanometer Scale Axial Resolution. Nano Letters. 20(8). 6038–6044. 8 indexed citations

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Yao, Weichuan, Zhenghui Wu, Lifeng Huang, et al.. (2019). Organic Bulk Heterojunction Infrared Photodiodes for Imaging Out to 1300 nm. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 1(5). 660–666. 40 indexed citations

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Bezryadina, Anna, Junxiang Zhao, Yang Xia, et al.. (2019). Localized plasmonic structured illumination microscopy with gaps in spatial frequencies. Optics Letters. 44(11). 2915–2915. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Qian, Jingwei Sheng, Zhaowei Liu, et al.. (2019). Neural tracking of speech mental imagery during rhythmic inner counting. eLife. 8. 11 indexed citations

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Ma, Qian, Haoliang Qian, Sergio Montoya, et al.. (2018). Experimental Demonstration of Hyperbolic Metamaterial Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. ACS Nano. 12(11). 11316–11322. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Qian, Huan Hu, Eric J. Huang, & Zhaowei Liu. (2017). Super-resolution imaging by metamaterial-based compressive spatial-to-spectral transformation. Nanoscale. 9(46). 18268–18274. 25 indexed citations

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Park, Justin C., Sung Ho Park, Jong Hoon Kim, et al.. (2011). Four‐dimensional cone‐beam computed tomography and digital tomosynthesis reconstructions using respiratory signals extracted from transcutaneously inserted metal markers for liver SBRT. Medical Physics. 38(2). 1028–1036. 39 indexed citations

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Rho, Junsuk, Ziliang Ye, Yi Xiong, et al.. (2010). Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies. Nature Communications. 1(1). 143–143. 340 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhaowei, Hyesog Lee, Yi Xiong, Cheng Sun, & Xiang Zhang. (2007). Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects. Science. 315(5819). 1686–1686. 1685 indexed citations breakdown →

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