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61
Citations
32792
World Ranking
1494
National Ranking
613

Overview

Nanfang Yu is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work spans various subfields, including electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research focuses primarily on topics related to metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, orbital angular momentum in optics, photonic crystals and applications, photonic and optical devices, and thermal radiation and cooling technologies.

Nanfang Yu has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • ACS Photonics
  • Nanophotonics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Paints as a Scalable and Effective Radiative Cooling Technology for Buildings" (2020, Joule)
  • "Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Colored and paintable bilayer coatings with high solar-infrared reflectance for efficient cooling" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Selection rules for quasibound states in the continuum" (2020, Physical Review B)
  • "Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces" (2024, ACS Photonics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nanfang Yu include:

  • Cheng-Chia Tsai
  • Adam Overvig
  • Stephanie C. Malek
  • Andrea Alú
  • Sajan Shrestha

Best Publications

  • Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources

    Bozhi Tian;Xiaolin Zheng;Thomas J. Kempa;Ying Fang

  • A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications.

    Hou Tong Chen;Antoinette J. Taylor;Nanfang Yu

  • Aberration-free ultrathin flat lenses and axicons at telecom wavelengths based on plasmonic metasurfaces.

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats;Nanfang Yu

  • Hierarchically porous polymer coatings for highly efficient passive daytime radiative cooling

    Jyotirmoy Mandal;Yanke Fu;Adam C. Overvig;Mingxin Jia

  • Aberration-free ultra-thin flat lenses and axicons at telecom wavelengths based on plasmonic metasurfaces

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats;Nanfang Yu

  • A broadband, background-free quarter-wave plate based on plasmonic metasurfaces.

    Nanfang Yu;Francesco Aieta;Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats

  • Keeping cool: Enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation in Saharan silver ants

    Norman Nan Shi;Cheng-Chia Tsai;Fernando Camino;Gary D. Bernard

  • Broadband achromatic dielectric metalenses

    Sajan Shrestha;Adam C. Overvig;Ming Lu;Aaron Stein

  • Broad electrical tuning of graphene-loaded plasmonic antennas.

    Yu Yao;Mikhail A. Kats;Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu

  • Out-of-Plane Reflection and Refraction of Light by Anisotropic Optical Antenna Metasurfaces with Phase Discontinuities

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu;Mikhail A. Kats

  • Ultra-thin plasmonic optical vortex plate based on phase discontinuities

    Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu;Francesco Aieta;Jiao Lin

  • Dielectric metasurfaces for complete and independent control of the optical amplitude and phase

    Adam C. Overvig;Sajan Shrestha;Stephanie C. Malek;Ming Lu

  • Controlling propagation and coupling of waveguide modes using phase-gradient metasurfaces.

    Zhaoyi Li;Myoung Hwan Kim;Myoung Hwan Kim;Cheng Wang;Zhaohong Han

  • Flat Optics: Controlling Wavefronts With Optical Antenna Metasurfaces

    Nanfang Yu;P. Genevet;F. Aieta;M. A. Kats

  • Designer spoof surface plasmon structures collimate terahertz laser beams

    Nanfang Yu;Qi Jie Wang;Qi Jie Wang;Mikhail A. Kats;Jonathan A. Fan

  • Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum.

    Adam Overvig;Adam Overvig;Nanfang Yu;Andrea Alù

  • Colored and paintable bilayer coatings with high solar-infrared reflectance for efficient cooling

    Yijun Chen;Yijun Chen;Jyotirmoy Mandal;Wenxi Li;Ajani Smith-Washington

  • Porous Polymers with Switchable Optical Transmittance for Optical and Thermal Regulation

    Jyotirmoy Mandal;Mingxin Jia;Adam Overvig;Yanke Fu

  • Small-divergence semiconductor lasers by plasmonic collimation

    Nanfang Yu;Jonathan Fan;Qi Jie Wang;Christian Pflügl

  • Selection rules for quasibound states in the continuum

    Adam C. Overvig;Stephanie C. Malek;Michael J. Carter;Sajan Shrestha

  • Whispering-gallery mode resonators for highly unidirectional laser action

    Qi Jie Wang;Changling Yan;Nanfang Yu;Julia Unterhinninghofen

  • Giant birefringence in optical antenna arrays with widely tailorable optical anisotropy

    Mikhail A. Kats;Patrice Genevet;Guillaume Aoust;Nanfang Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Mikhail A. Kats
Mikhail A. Kats University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patrice Genevet
Patrice Genevet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Masamichi Yamanishi
Masamichi Yamanishi Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan)
Mikhail A. Belkin
Mikhail A. Belkin Technical University of Munich
Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang Columbia University
Jonathan A. Fan
Jonathan A. Fan Stanford University
James Hone
James Hone Columbia University
Scott W. Corzine
Scott W. Corzine Infinera (United States)

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