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48
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9546
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3066
National Ranking
1154

Overview

Pai-Yen Chen is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on engineering and physics, with a notable number of publications dedicated to electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their work covers subfields such as biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Key research topics include antenna design and analysis, quantum mechanics and non-Hermitian physics, energy harvesting in wireless networks, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and mechanical and optical resonators.

Frequent publication venues for Pai-Yen Chen include the following:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Optics Express
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Their collaboration network involves several coauthors with whom they have published extensively, including:

  • Minye Yang
  • Zhilu Ye
  • Branislav M. Notaroš
  • Cynthia Furse
  • Francesco P. Andriulli

Representative recent papers authored by or involving Pai-Yen Chen include:

  • "Pencil-paper on-skin electronics," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "PT-Symmetric Absorber-Laser Enables Electromagnetic Sensors with Unprecedented Sensitivity," 2020, ACS Photonics
  • "Improved Contacts and Device Performance in MoS2 Transistors Using a 2D Semiconductor Interlayer," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Robust extended-range wireless power transfer using a higher-order PT-symmetric platform," 2020, Physical Review Research
  • "A Breathable, Reusable, and Zero-Power Smart Face Mask for Wireless Cough and Mask-Wearing Monitoring," 2022, ACS Nano

Best Publications

  • Giant nonlinear response from plasmonic metasurfaces coupled to intersubband transitions

    Jongwon Lee;Mykhailo Tymchenko;Christos Argyropoulos;Pai Yen Chen

  • Atomically thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers.

    Pai Yen Chen;Andrea Alù

  • Mantle cloaking using thin patterned metasurfaces

    Pai Yen Chen;Andrea Alù

  • Generalized parity–time symmetry condition for enhanced sensor telemetry

    Pai-Yen Chen;Maryam Sakhdari;Mehdi Hajizadegan;Qingsong Cui

  • Polarization Encoded Color Image Embedded in a Dielectric Metasurface.

    Xiaofei Zang;Xiaofei Zang;Fengliang Dong;Fuyong Yue;Chunmei Zhang

  • Invisibility and Cloaking Based on Scattering Cancellation

    Pai Yen Chen;Jason Soric;Andrea Alù

  • Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε-near-zero plasmonic channels

    Christos Argyropoulos;Pai Yen Chen;Giuseppe D'Aguanno;Nader Engheta

  • Analytical modeling of conformal mantle cloaks for cylindrical objects using sub-wavelength printed and slotted arrays

    Yashwanth R. Padooru;Alexander B. Yakovlev;Pai Yen Chen;Andrea Alù

  • Unique Gap Structure and Symmetry of the Charge Density Wave in Single-Layer VSe_{2}.

    P. Chen;P. Chen;Woei Wu Pai;Y.-H. Chan;V. Madhavan

  • Broadening the cloaking bandwidth with non-Foster metasurfaces.

    Pai Yen Chen;Christos Argyropoulos;Andrea Alu

  • Terahertz Antenna Phase Shifters Using Integrally-Gated Graphene Transmission-Lines

    Pai-Yen Chen;Christos Argyropoulos;Andrea Alu

  • Nanostructured graphene metasurface for tunable terahertz cloaking

    Pai Yen Chen;Jason Soric;Yashwanth R. Padooru;Hossein M. Bernety

  • Nonlinear plasmonic cloaks to realize giant all-optical scattering switching.

    Christos Argyropoulos;Pai Yen Chen;Francesco Monticone;Giuseppe D'Aguanno

  • Holographic aperture antenna configured to define selectable, arbitrary complex electromagnetic fields

    Pai-Yen Chen;Tom Driscoll;Siamak Ebadi;John Desmond Hunt

  • Pencil-paper on-skin electronics.

    Yadong Xu;Ganggang Zhao;Liang Zhu;Qihui Fei

  • Demonstration of an ultralow profile cloak for scattering suppression of a finite-length rod in free space

    J. C. Soric;P. Y. Chen;Aaron J Kerkhoff;David L Rainwater

  • Surface scattering antennas with lumped elements

    Pai-yen Chen;Tom Driscoll;Siamak Ebadi;John Desmond Hunt

  • P T Symmetry and Singularity-Enhanced Sensing Based on Photoexcited Graphene Metasurfaces

    Pai Yen Chen;Jeil Jung

  • Optical nanoantenna arrays loaded with nonlinear materials

    Pai Yen Chen;Andrea Alu

  • Terahertz Metamaterial Devices Based on Graphene Nanostructures

    Pai-Yen Chen;Andrea Alu

  • Giant nonlinear response from plasmonic metasurfaces coupled to intersubband transitions

    Jongwon Lee;Christos Argyropoulos;Pai-Yen Chen;Mykhailo Tymchenko

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Deji Akinwande
Deji Akinwande The University of Texas at Austin
Yue Li
Yue Li Tsinghua University
Khaled N. Salama
Khaled N. Salama King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
David R. Smith
David R. Smith Duke University
Mikhail A. Belkin
Mikhail A. Belkin Technical University of Munich
Mauro Ferrari
Mauro Ferrari Houston Methodist
Zhijun Zhang
Zhijun Zhang Tsinghua University
Mei-Yin Chou
Mei-Yin Chou Academia Sinica
Markus-Christian Amann
Markus-Christian Amann Technical University of Munich

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