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D-Index
49
Citations
11344
World Ranking
10416
National Ranking
2478

Deng-Ke Yang publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deng-Ke Yang sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 219 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Deng-Ke Yang D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deng-Ke Yang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Society for Information Display Fellow

Overview

Deng-Ke Yang is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, and Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality.

Recent notable papers authored include:

  • "Light-Driven Self-Oscillating Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Networks Triggered by Dynamic Isomerization of Molecular Motors" (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Humidity-Responsive Blue Phase Liquid-Crystalline Film with Reconfigurable and Tailored Visual Signals" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Networks and Soft Actuators with Degree-of-Freedom-Controlled Molecular Motors" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Programmable Dynamic Information Storage Composite Film with Highly Sensitive Thermochromism and Gradually Adjustable Fluorescence" (2023, Advanced Materials)
  • "Reversible Information Storage Based on Rhodamine Derivative in Mechanochromic Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Elastomer" (2023, Advanced Functional Materials)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, Physical Review Applied, SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, and Nature Communications.

Frequent coauthors include Yunho Shin, Huai Yang, Ziyuan Zhou, Lanying Zhang, and Xinfang Zhang, each collaborating on multiple publications with Deng-Ke Yang.

Deng-Ke Yang was awarded the title of Society for Information Display Fellow in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

    Shin-Tson Wu;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays

    Shin-Tson Wu;Deng-ke Yang

  • Cholesteric liquid crystal/polymer dispersion for haze‐free light shutters

    D.‐K. Yang;L.‐C. Chien;J. W. Doane

  • Control of reflectivity and bistability in displays using cholesteric liquid crystals

    Deng-Ke Yang;J. L. West;Liang-Chy Chien;J. W. Doane

  • Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices: Yang/Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

    Deng-Ke Yang;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Liquid crystalline light modulating device & material.

    William J. Doane;Deng-Ke Yang;Liang-Chy Chien

  • Cholesteric reflective display: Drive scheme and contrast

    D. K. Yang;J. W. Doane;Z. Yaniv;J. Glasser

  • Bragg reflection from cholesteric liquid crystals.

    W. D. St. John;W. J. Fritz;Z. J. Lu;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Polymer networks formed in liquid crystals

    Y. K. Fung;D.-K. Yang;S. Ying;L.-C. Chien

  • Dynamic drive methods and apparatus for a bistable liquid crystal display

    Deng-Ke Yang;Yang-Ming Zhu;Xiao-Yang Huang

  • Method and apparatus for electronic switching of a reflective color display

    J. William Doane;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Light‐Directing Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Reflection from Liquid‐Crystal Droplets

    Jing Fan;Yannian Li;Hari Krishna Bisoyi;Rafael S. Zola

  • Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

    Manoj Mathews;Rafael S. Zola;Shawn Hurley;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal displays

    Deng-Ke Yang;Zhijian Lu;J. William Doane

  • Directing Dynamic Control of Red, Green, and Blue Reflection Enabled by a Light-Driven Self-Organized Helical Superstructure

    Quan Li;Yannian Li;Ji Ma;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Polymer stabilized liquid crystalline light modulating device and material

    J. William Doane;Deng-Ke Yang;Liang-Chy Chien

  • Bistable Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Light Shutter

    Ji Ma;Ji Ma;Lei Shi;Deng-Ke Yang

  • BISTABLE CHOLESTERIC REFLECTIVE DISPLAYS:Materials and Drive Schemes

    Deng-Ke Yang;Xiao-Yang Huang;Yang-Ming Zhu

  • Multistable chiral nematic displays

    John West;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Ordering and self-diffusion in the first molecular layer at a liquid-crystal-polymer interface.

    GP Crawford;DK Yang;S Zumer;D Finotello

Frequent Co-Authors

Huai Yang
Huai Yang Peking University
Shin-Tson Wu
Shin-Tson Wu University of Central Florida
Timothy J. Bunning
Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Seung Hee Lee
Seung Hee Lee Jeonbuk National University
Timothy J. White
Timothy J. White University of Colorado Boulder
Vincent P. Tondiglia
Vincent P. Tondiglia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Quan Li
Quan Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ling Wang
Ling Wang Tianjin University
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Haifeng Yu
Haifeng Yu Peking University

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