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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 61 1494 1427 614 572 180 32792

Nanfang Yu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nanfang Yu between 2007 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nanfang Yu published across 19 years, from 2007 to 2025, averaging 12.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 22 publications in 2020. 31 of the 231 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2007 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 22. Peak 22 publications in 2020. 2007: 7 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 14 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 18 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 22 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 13 publications
2007 2025

231 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nanfang Yu: publications per year, 2007 to 2025
Year Publications
2007 7
2008 8
2009 13
2010 14
2011 14
2012 18
2013 9
2014 4
2015 4
2016 8
2017 15
2018 12
2019 20
2020 22
2021 11
2022 11
2023 10
2024 18
2025 13
Total 231
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Nanfang Yu publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nanfang Yu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 34–53 to 1,065+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 445. Most scientists, 445, have 174–193 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 174–193 publications, is where this scientist sits. 34–53 publications: 24 scientists 54–73 publications: 52 scientists 74–93 publications: 114 scientists 94–113 publications: 203 scientists 114–133 publications: 269 scientists 134–153 publications: 355 scientists 154–173 publications: 403 scientists 174–193 publications: 445 scientists 194–213 publications: 430 scientists 214–233 publications: 431 scientists 234–253 publications: 399 scientists 254–273 publications: 366 scientists 274–293 publications: 335 scientists 294–313 publications: 300 scientists 314–333 publications: 276 scientists 334–353 publications: 250 scientists 354–373 publications: 214 scientists 374–393 publications: 187 scientists 394–413 publications: 152 scientists 414–433 publications: 169 scientists 434–453 publications: 147 scientists 454–473 publications: 111 scientists 474–493 publications: 117 scientists 494–513 publications: 103 scientists 514–533 publications: 99 scientists 534–553 publications: 92 scientists 554–573 publications: 75 scientists 574–593 publications: 58 scientists 594–613 publications: 69 scientists 614–633 publications: 50 scientists 634–653 publications: 62 scientists 654–673 publications: 54 scientists 674–693 publications: 44 scientists 694–713 publications: 37 scientists 714–733 publications: 28 scientists 734–753 publications: 26 scientists 754–773 publications: 26 scientists 774–793 publications: 19 scientists 794–813 publications: 23 scientists 814–833 publications: 20 scientists 834–853 publications: 16 scientists 854–873 publications: 20 scientists 874–893 publications: 11 scientists 894–913 publications: 11 scientists 914–933 publications: 16 scientists 934–953 publications: 13 scientists 954–973 publications: 10 scientists 974–993 publications: 11 scientists 994–1,013 publications: 9 scientists 1,014–1,033 publications: 9 scientists 1,034–1,053 publications: 10 scientists 1,054–1,064 publications: 6 scientists 1,065+ publications: 99 scientists
34–53 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 180 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
34–53 24
54–73 52
74–93 114
94–113 203
114–133 269
134–153 355
154–173 403
174–193 445 180
194–213 430
214–233 431
234–253 399
254–273 366
274–293 335
294–313 300
314–333 276
334–353 250
354–373 214
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147
454–473 111
474–493 117
494–513 103
514–533 99
534–553 92
554–573 75
574–593 58
594–613 69
614–633 50
634–653 62
654–673 54
674–693 44
694–713 37
714–733 28
734–753 26
754–773 26
774–793 19
794–813 23
814–833 20
834–853 16
854–873 20
874–893 11
894–913 11
914–933 16
934–953 13
954–973 10
974–993 11
994–1,013 9
1,014–1,033 9
1,034–1,053 10
1,054–1,064 6
1,065+ 99
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Nanfang Yu D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nanfang Yu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 111+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 263. Most scientists, 263, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 178
31 257
32 263
33 262
34 244
35 236
36 211
37 220
38 214
39 214
40 205
41 187
42 194
43 201
44 155
45 189
46 148
47 160
48 134
49 130
50 141
51 156
52 108
53 130
54 112
55 97
56 111
57 102
58 108
59 120
60 103
61 93 61
62 92
63 74
64 77
65 73
66 64
67 69
68 60
69 39
70 57
71 59
72 46
73 49
74 38
75 35
76 32
77 35
78 31
79 22
80 34
81 31
82 34
83 23
84 18
85 30
86 19
87 19
88 20
89 8
90 17
91 7
92 14
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 12
97 10
98 10
99 12
100 16
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 8
105 9
106 13
107 4
108 5
109 10
110 8
111+ 96
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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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