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Yan-Feng Chen

Yan-Feng Chen

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
15410
World Ranking
11455
National Ranking
1836

Overview

Yan-Feng Chen is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and has published extensively in the fields of Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science. Their research contributions are particularly prominent in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics covered by Yan-Feng Chen's work include:

  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Yan-Feng Chen has been a frequent contributor to prominent publication venues, including:

  • Physical Review B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Physical Review Applied
  • Nature Communications

Their recent published papers include:

  • Observation of higher-order non-Hermitian skin effect (2021) in Nature Communications
  • Higher-order quantum spin Hall effect in a photonic crystal (2020) in Nature Communications
  • High-density switchable skyrmion-like polar nanodomains integrated on silicon (2022) in Nature
  • A review on non-Hermitian skin effect (2022) in Advances in Physics X
  • Photonic non-Hermitian skin effect and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence (2020) in Physical Review Research

Yan-Feng Chen frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Ming-Hui Lu
  • Jian Zhou
  • Shu-Hua Yao
  • Yang-Yang Lv
  • Si-Yuan Yu

Best Publications

  • Experimental demonstration of a unidirectional reflectionless parity-time metamaterial at optical frequencies

    Liang Feng;Ye-Long Xu;William S. Fegadolli;William S. Fegadolli;Ming-Hui Lu

  • Acoustic topological insulator and robust one-way sound transport

    Cheng He;Xu Ni;Hao Ge;Xiao-Chen Sun

  • Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials

    Ming-Hui Lu;Liang Feng;Yan-Feng Chen

  • Substitution-induced phase transition and enhanced multiferroic properties of Bi1−xLaxFeO3 ceramics

    Shan-Tao Zhang;Yi Zhang;Ming-Hui Lu;Chao-Ling Du

  • Second-order photonic topological insulator with corner states

    Bi Ye Xie;Hong Fei Wang;Hai-Xiao Wang;Xue Yi Zhu

  • Molecule-Independent Electrical Switching in Pt/Organic Monolayer/Ti Devices

    D. R. Stewart;D. A. A. Ohlberg;P. A. Beck;Y. Chen

  • Second-order topology and multidimensional topological transitions in sonic crystals

    Xiujuan Zhang;Hai-Xiao Wang;Zhi-Kang Lin;Yuan Tian

  • Broadband Photovoltaic Detectors Based on an Atomically Thin Heterostructure.

    Mingsheng Long;Erfu Liu;Peng Wang;Anyuan Gao

  • Semiconductor/relaxor 0–3 type composites without thermal depolarization in Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 TiO 3 -based lead-free piezoceramics

    Ji Zhang;Zhao Pan;Fei Fei Guo;Wen Chao Liu

  • Ultra‐Thick, Low‐Tortuosity, and Mesoporous Wood Carbon Anode for High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Batteries

    Fei Shen;Fei Shen;Wei Luo;Jiaqi Dai;Yonggang Yao

  • Photonic topological insulator with broken time-reversal symmetry.

    Cheng He;Xiao-Chen Sun;Xiao-Ping Liu;Ming-Hui Lu

  • Observation of second-order topological insulators in sonic crystals

    Xiujuan Zhang;Hai-Xiao Wang;Zhi-Kang Lin;Yuan Tian

  • Negative birefraction of acoustic waves in a sonic crystal.

    Ming-Hui Lu;Chao Zhang;Liang Feng;Liang Feng;Jun Zhao

  • Higher-order quantum spin Hall effect in a photonic crystal.

    Biye Xie;Guangxu Su;Hong-Fei Wang;Feng Liu

  • Breaking the barriers: advances in acoustic functional materials

    Hao Ge;Min Yang;Chu Ma;Ming-Hui Lu

  • Preparation, structures, and multiferroic properties of single phase Bi1−xLaxFeO3 (x=0–0.40) ceramics

    Shan-Tao Zhang;Ling-Hua Pang;Yi Zhang;Ming-Hui Lu

  • Hybrid Nanoimprint−Soft Lithography with Sub-15 nm Resolution

    Zhiwei Li;Yanni Gu;Lei Wang;Haixiong Ge

  • Robust topological edge states at the perfect surface step edge of topological insulator ZrTe$_5$

    Xiang-Bing Li;Wen-Kai Huang;Yang-Yang Lv;Kai-Wen Zhang

  • Experimental Observation of Anisotropic Adler-Bell-Jackiw Anomaly in Type-II Weyl Semimetal WTe1.98 Crystals at the Quasiclassical Regime

    Yang-Yang Lv;Xiao Li;Bin-Bin Zhang;W. Y. Deng

  • Optical Properties of an Ionic-Type Phononic Crystal

    Yan-qing Lu;Yong-yuan Zhu;Yan-feng Chen;Shi-ning Zhu

  • Acoustic backward-wave negative refractions in the second band of a sonic crystal.

    Liang Feng;Xiao-Ping Liu;Ming-Hui Lu;Yan-Bin Chen

  • Raman spectroscopy of (Mn, Co)-codoped ZnO films

    C. L. Du;Z. B. Gu;M. H. Lu;J. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shan-Tao Zhang
Shan-Tao Zhang Nanjing University
Nai-Ben Ming
Nai-Ben Ming Nanjing University
Zhiguo Liu
Zhiguo Liu Nanjing University
Shining Zhu
Shining Zhu Nanjing University
Yulin Chen
Yulin Chen University of Oxford
Yan-qing Lu
Yan-qing Lu Nanjing University
Tao Yu
Tao Yu Nanjing University
Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University
Wei Wu
Wei Wu Wuhan University
Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology

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