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Yan Cai

Yan Cai publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies and Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques.

World rank
#1,270,575
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#306,515
of 358,040
Works
16
Citations
23
Citations per work
1.4

What does Yan Cai research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 47.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23.8%Mechanics of Materials: 9.5%Computational Mechanics: 4.8%other fields: 14.3%48%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering47.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics23.8%Mechanics of Materials9.5%Computational Mechanics4.8%other fields14.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics24% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Surfaces, Coatings and Films5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yan Cai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical Modulators, Silicon Photonics, Microwave Photonics, Optical Frequency Combs, Ultrafast Lasers, Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Coherent Detection and Femtosecond Laser.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical Modulators61 topic
  2. Silicon Photonics61 topic
  3. Microwave Photonics32 topics
  4. Optical Frequency Combs21 topic
  5. Ultrafast Lasers21 topic
  6. Chemical Mechanical Planarization11 topic
  7. Coherent Detection11 topic
  8. Femtosecond Laser11 topic
  9. Material Removal Mechanism11 topic
  10. Micromachining11 topic
  11. Microwave Filters11 topic
  12. Optical Access Networks11 topic
  13. Optical Fiber11 topic
  14. Photonic Signal Processing11 topic
  15. Plasmonics11 topic
  16. Substrate Integrated Waveguide11 topic
  17. Thin-Film Transistors11 topic

Where does Yan Cai work?

Yan Cai's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Yan Cai have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 23 citations for Yan Cai, ranking #1,270,575 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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