2026 Deng-Ke Yang: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	49	10418	10062	2480	2302	219	11344

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Materials Science

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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

1720
Citations
Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays

Shin-Tson Wu;Deng-ke Yang

1073
Citations
Cholesteric liquid crystal/polymer dispersion for haze‐free light shutters

D.‐K. Yang;L.‐C. Chien;J. W. Doane

593
Citations
Control of reflectivity and bistability in displays using cholesteric liquid crystals

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

510
Citations
Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices: Yang/Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

Deng-Ke Yang;Shin-Tson Wu

438
Citations
Liquid crystalline light modulating device & material.

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

324
Citations
Cholesteric reflective display: Drive scheme and contrast

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

262
Citations
Bragg reflection from cholesteric liquid crystals.

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

248
Citations
Polymer networks formed in liquid crystals

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

224
Citations
Dynamic drive methods and apparatus for a bistable liquid crystal display

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

216
Citations
Method and apparatus for electronic switching of a reflective color display

J. William Doane;Deng-Ke Yang

189
Citations
Light‐Directing Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Reflection from Liquid‐Crystal Droplets

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

181
Citations
Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

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

178
Citations
Bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal displays

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

161
Citations
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

152
Citations
Polymer stabilized liquid crystalline light modulating device and material

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

151
Citations
Bistable Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Light Shutter

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

149
Citations
BISTABLE CHOLESTERIC REFLECTIVE DISPLAYS:Materials and Drive Schemes

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

147
Citations
Multistable chiral nematic displays

John West;Deng-Ke Yang

145
Citations
Ordering and self-diffusion in the first molecular layer at a liquid-crystal-polymer interface.

GP Crawford;DK Yang;S Zumer;D Finotello

144
Citations