Zin Lin

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Zin Lin is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zin Lin has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zin Lin's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (16 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (13 papers). Zin Lin is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (16 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (13 papers). Zin Lin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Zin Lin's co-authors include Tsampikos Kottos, Hamidreza Ramezani, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Toni Eichelkraut, Hui Cao, Steven G. Johnson, Alejandro W. Rodríguez, Marko Lončar, Raphaël Pestourie and Federico Capasso and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zin Lin

42 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Unidirectional Invisibility Induced byPT-Symmetric Periodic Structures

2011 1.4k citations Zin Lin, Hamidreza Ramezani et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
A framework for scintillation in nanophotonics

2022 147 citations Charles Roques‐Carmes, Zin Lin et al. profile →
Empowering Metasurfaces with Inverse Design: Principles and Applications

2022 144 citations Raphaël Pestourie, Zin Lin et al. ACS Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zin Lin United States	21	2.5k	1.2k	856	820	406	44	3.2k
Bo Zhen United States	19	3.3k 1.3×	923 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	1.4k 3.4×	44	4.1k
Liang Feng United States	26	3.7k 1.5×	1.8k 1.5×	820 1.0×	955 1.2×	1.1k 2.6×	68	4.7k
Song-Liang Chua United States	13	2.0k 0.8×	545 0.4×	753 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	986 2.4×	22	2.6k
Alessandro Ciattoni Italy	31	2.0k 0.8×	564 0.5×	654 0.8×	617 0.8×	1.1k 2.7×	105	2.5k
Bo Zhen United States	14	3.1k 1.3×	829 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	1.5k 1.8×	1.8k 4.3×	23	4.3k
Arkadii Krokhin United States	26	1.5k 0.6×	555 0.4×	396 0.5×	469 0.6×	629 1.5×	114	2.5k
Yu. S. Kivshar Australia	29	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	596 0.7×	492 0.6×	657 1.6×	109	2.5k
Almas F. Sadreev Russia	27	2.3k 0.9×	754 0.6×	522 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	938 2.3×	148	2.9k
A. D. Boardman United Kingdom	29	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 2.9×	140	3.5k
Chao Peng China	25	2.0k 0.8×	288 0.2×	586 0.7×	1.5k 1.9×	711 1.8×	129	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roques‐Carmes, Charles, Kai Wang, Yuanmu Yang, Arka Majumdar, & Zin Lin. (2025). Metaoptic Computational Imaging. ACS Photonics. 12(4). 1722–1733. 2 indexed citations

Arya, Gaurav, et al.. (2025). End‐to‐End Metasurface Design for Temperature Imaging via Broadband Planck‐Radiation Regression. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(9). 3 indexed citations

Sun, Mengdi, Amid Shakeri, Qing Wang, et al.. (2025). Scalable Freeform Optimization of Wide-Aperture 3D Metalenses by Zoned Discrete Axisymmetry. ACS Photonics. 12(6). 3163–3171. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Mengdi, Vassilios Kovanis, Marko Lončar, & Zin Lin. (2024). Bayesian optimization of Fisher Information in nonlinear multiresonant quantum photonics gyroscopes. Nanophotonics. 13(13). 2401–2416. 7 indexed citations

Lin, Zin, et al.. (2024). Fundamental limits to multi‐functional and tunable nanophotonic response. Nanophotonics. 13(12). 2107–2116. 3 indexed citations

Fröch, Johannes E., Quentin A. A. Tanguy, Elyas Bayati, et al.. (2022). Inverse‐Designed Meta‐Optics with Spectral‐Spatial Engineered Response to Mimic Color Perception. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(20). 4 indexed citations

Bayati, Elyas, Raphaël Pestourie, Shane Colburn, et al.. (2021). Inverse designed extended depth of focus meta‐optics for broadband imaging in the visible. Nanophotonics. 11(11). 2531–2540. 42 indexed citations

Bayati, Elyas, Raphaël Pestourie, Shane Colburn, et al.. (2020). Inverse Designed Metalenses with Extended Depth of Focus. ACS Photonics. 7(4). 873–878. 68 indexed citations

Bayati, Elyas, Raphaël Pestourie, Shane Colburn, et al.. (2020). Inverse designed metalenses with extended depth of focus. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FM1R.5–FM1R.5. 4 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, Victor Liu, Raphaël Pestourie, & Steven G. Johnson. (2019). Topology optimization of freeform large-area metasurfaces. Optics Express. 27(11). 15765–15765. 135 indexed citations

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Gould, Michael N., Emma Schmidgall, Karine Hestroffer, et al.. (2018). 400%/W second harmonic conversion efficiency in 14 μm-diameter gallium phosphide-on-oxide resonators. Optics Express. 26(26). 33687–33687. 48 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, Xiangdong Liang, Marko Lončar, Steven G. Johnson, & Alejandro W. Rodríguez. (2016). Cavity-enhanced second-harmonic generation via nonlinear-overlap optimization. Optica. 3(3). 233–233. 119 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, Adi Pick, Marko Lončar, & Alejandro W. Rodríguez. (2016). Enhanced Spontaneous Emission at Third-Order Dirac Exceptional Points in Inverse-Designed Photonic Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 117(10). 107402–107402. 186 indexed citations

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Wang, Cheng, Michael J. Burek, Zin Lin, et al.. (2015). Integrated Lithium Niobate Nonlinear Optical Devices. FW1D.1–FW1D.1. 4 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, et al.. (2013). High-efficiency degenerate four wave-mixing in triply resonant nanobeam cavities. Physical Review Letters.

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Ramezani, Hamidreza, et al.. (2012). Taming the flow of light via active magneto-optical impurities. Optics Express. 20(24). 26200–26200. 13 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, et al.. (2012). Light transport in random media withPTsymmetry. Physical Review A. 85(5). 18 indexed citations

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Ramezani, Hamidreza, Zin Lin, Toni Eichelkraut, et al.. (2011). Broad Band Unidirectional Invisibility using PT-Symmetry. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. QMA3–QMA3. 2 indexed citations

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Ramezani, Hamidreza, Zin Lin, Tsampikos Kottos, & Demetrios N. Christodoulides. (2011). Optical diodes in nonlinear structures with parity-time symmetries. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8095. 80950L–80950L. 3 indexed citations

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Lin, Zin, Hamidreza Ramezani, Toni Eichelkraut, et al.. (2011). Unidirectional Invisibility Induced byPT-Symmetric Periodic Structures. Physical Review Letters. 106(21). 213901–213901. 1408 indexed citations breakdown →

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