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Papers

(The median citation count of Nanophotonics is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Compound meta-optics: there is plenty of room at the top	119
Enhancing radiative heat transfer with meta-atomic displacement	58
Optical filters made from random metasurfaces using Bayesian optimization	45
Digital laser-induced printing of MoS₂	40
Novel two-dimensional materials based bio-nanophotonics	36
Free-space-coupled wavelength-scale disk resonators	34
Coherent control of symmetry breaking in transverse-field Ising chains using few-cycle pulses	34
Experimental generation of optimally chiral azimuthally-radially polarized beams	32
Temporal interface in dispersive hyperbolic media	32
Recent advances in quantum nanophotonics: plexcitonic and vibro-polaritonic strong coupling and its biomedical and chemical applications	31
3D-printed mirror-less helicity preserving metasurface “mirror” for THz applications	30
Electrochemical photonics: a pathway towards electrovariable optical metamaterials	30
End-to-end design of metasurface-based complex-amplitude holograms by physics-driven deep neural networks	30
Vortex beam nanofocusing and optical skyrmion generation via hyperbolic metamaterials	29
XUV yield optimization of two-color high-order harmonic generation in gases	29
Tailoring optical response of MXene thin films	25
Recent advances in optical label-free characterization of extracellular vesicles	25
Quantum nanophotonics	24
Frontmatter	24
A nonlocal metasurface for optical edge detection in the far-field	24
Multidimensional quantitative characterization of basal cell carcinoma by spectral- and time-resolved two-photon microscopy	24
Quantum-enhanced detection of viral cDNA via luminescence resonance energy transfer using upconversion and gold nanoparticles	23
Nano-kirigami enabled chiral nano-cilia with enhanced circular dichroism at visible wavelengths	23
Direct observation of quantum percolation dynamics	23
Deuterated SiNx: a low-loss, back-end CMOS-compatible platform for nonlinear integrated optics	22

Tip-enhanced photoluminescence of monolayer MoS₂ increased and spectrally shifted by injection of electrons	22
Frontmatter	22
Integrated circuits based on broadband pixel-array metasurfaces for generating data-carrying optical and THz orbital angular momentum beams	21
A universal metasurface transfer technique for heterogeneous integration	21
Multicolor nanoring arrays with uniform and decoupled scattering for augmented reality displays	20
Fabrication of quantum dot and ring arrays by direct laser interference patterning for nanophotonics	19
Guided domino lithography for uniform fabrication of single-digit-nanometer scale plasmonic nanoantenna	19
Exciton–polariton condensation in MAPbI₃ films from bound states in the continuum metasurfaces	19
Towards chiral acoustoplasmonics	19
Broadband spin-multiplexed single-celled metasurface holograms: a comprehensive comparison between different strategies	19
Crosstalk prohibition at the deep-subwavelength scale by epsilon-near-zero claddings	19
Synergetic full-parametric Aharonov–Anandan and Pancharatnam–Berry phase for arbitrary polarization and wavefront control	19
Circularly symmetric nanopores in 3D femtosecond laser nanolithography with burst control and the role of energy dose	19
Frontmatter	18
Non-linear bistability in pulsed optical traps	17
Quasi-bound states in the continuum in finite waveguide grating couplers	17
Electrically switchable metallic polymer metasurface device with gel polymer electrolyte	17
Dual-polarization electromagnetic window simultaneously with extreme in-band angle-stability and out-of-band RCS reduction empowered by flip-coding metasurface	16
Semiconductor lasers with integrated metasurfaces for direct output beam modulation, enabled by innovative fabrication methods	15
Meso-chiral optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles: uncovering hidden chirality	15
Highly active selenium nanotherapeutics combined with metformin to achieve synergistic sensitizing effect on NK cells for osteosarcoma therapy	15
Machine learning to optimize additive manufacturing for visible photonics	15
Frontmatter	15
Nature inspired design methodology for a wide field of view achromatic metalens	14
Purcell enhancement and polarization control of single-photon emitters in monolayer WSe₂ using dielectric nanoantennas	14
Towards field-resolved visible microscopy of 2D materials	13
Comparing between steady-state excitonic transitions and ultrafast polaronic photoexcitations in layered perovskites: the role of electron–phonon interaction	13
Recent advances in the ab initio theory of solid-state defect qubits	13
Two-dimensional nanostructures based ‘-onics’ and ‘-omics’ in personalized medicine	12
Designing the response-spectra of microwave metasurfaces: theory and experiments	12
Dual-mode hyperbolicity, supercanalization, and leakage in self-complementary metasurfaces	12
Advanced optical nanolithography by enhanced transmission through bull’s eye nanostructured meta-mask	12
Replicating physical motion with Minkowskian isorefractive spacetime crystals	12
Classification of quantum-spin-hall topological phase in 2D photonic continuous media using electromagnetic parameters	11
Active metasurface designs for lensless and detector-limited imaging	11
Frontmatter	11
Nano-infrared imaging of metal insulator transition in few-layer 1T-TaS₂	11
Skyrmion bag robustness in plasmonic bilayer and trilayer moiré superlattices	11
Supershift properties for nonanalytic signals	11
Dynamic selection of visible wavelengths using resonant TiO₂ nanostructures	11
DNA as grabbers and steerers of quantum emitters	10
Enhanced electrochromic switching contrast in the blue by 3,4-propylenedioxypyrrole – implementation on structural colors	10
Defining the zerogap: cracking along the photolithographically defined Au–Cu–Au lines with sub-nanometer precision	10
Controlled compression, amplification and frequency up-conversion of optical pulses by media with time-dependent refractive index	10
Dynamic beam control based on electrically switchable nanogratings from conducting polymers	10
Large tuning of the optical properties of nanoscale NdNiO₃ via electron doping	10
Manganese-functionalized MXene theranostic nanoplatform for MRI-guided synergetic photothermal/chemodynamic therapy of cancer	10
Label free super resolution imaging with photonic nanojets from tunable tapered optical fibers	10
Maximum electromagnetic local density of states via material structuring	10
A self-assembled two-dimensional hypersonic phononic insulator	10

Nanophotonics in support of Ukrainian Scientists	10
Mesoporous biophotonic carbon spheres with tunable curvature for intelligent drug delivery	9
Overcoming stress limitations in SiN nonlinear photonics via a bilayer waveguide	9
Carbon nanomaterials for phototherapy	9
Full-color generation enabled by refractory plasmonic crystals	8
Diagnostic oriented discrimination of different Shiga toxins via PCA-assisted SERS-based plasmonic metasurface	8
Squeezed light generation in periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate waveguides	8
Topologically driven Rabi-oscillating interference dislocation	8
Gigahertz femtosecond laser-by a novel asymmetric one-dimensional photonic crystal saturable absorber device with defect layer	8
Goos–Hänchen effect singularities in transdimensional plasmonic films	7
Deep neural networks for inverse design of multimode integrated gratings with simultaneous amplitude and phase control	7
Deep-subwavelength resolution detection of polar magnetization by optical spin meron lattices on hyperbolic metamaterials	7
Long-metallic-strip array with parasitic rings: an efficient metasurface for dual-broadband electromagnetic window at large angles	7
Reconfigurable nonlinear optical element using tunable couplers and inverse-designed structure	7
Tunable up-conversion single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths	7
Tilting light’s polarization plane to spatially separate the ultrafast nonlinear response of chiral molecules	6
Plasmonic signal modulation at sub-GHz frequency via on-chip integration of tunnel junctions	6
Field enhancement of epsilon-near-zero modes in realistic ultrathin absorbing films	6
λ/20 surface nanostructuring of ZnO by mask-less ultrafast laser processing	6
Machine-learning-assisted photonic device development: a multiscale approach from theory to characterization	6
Direct laser writing of 3D metallic mid- and far-infrared wave components	6
Three birds with one stone: oxygen self-supply engineering palladium nanocluster/titanium carbide hybrid for single-NIR laser-triggered synergistic photodynamic-photothermal therapy	6
Sustainable chemistry with plasmonic photocatalysts	6
Ultralow loss visible light metamaterials assembled by metaclusters	6
Topological decomposition and transformation of photonic quasicrystals	5
On the generalized Snell–Descartes laws, shock waves, water wakes, and Cherenkov radiation	5
Quantum-enhanced interferometer using Kerr squeezing	5
Experimental analysis of the thermal management and internal quantum efficiency of terahertz quantum cascade laser harmonic frequency combs	5
Spin-dependent phenomena at chiral temporal interfaces	5
Rod and slit photonic crystal microrings for on-chip cavity quantum electrodynamics	5
Broadband nonlinear optical modulator enabled by VO₂/V₂O₅ core–shell heterostructures	5
Reversible electrical switching of nanostructural color pixels	5
Nanoparticle-on-mirror pairs: building blocks for remote spectroscopies	5
Fabrication of single color centers in sub-50 nm nanodiamonds using ion implantation	5
Dispersion braiding and band knots in plasmonic arrays with broken symmetries	4
Chat to chip: large language model based design of arbitrarily shaped metasurfaces	4
Polarization-sensitive diffractive optics and metasurfaces: “Past is Prologue”	4
Shaping the quantum vacuum with anisotropic temporal boundaries	4
Defect-insensitive bound states in the continuum in antisymmetric trapezoid metasurfaces in the visible range	4
High-harmonic generation from subwavelength silicon films	4
Tutorial: Hong–Ou–Mandel interference with structured photons	4
Transmissive hybrid metal–dielectric metasurface bandpass filters for mid-infrared applications	4
Self-powered broadband photodetector based on MoS₂/Sb₂Te₃ heterojunctions: a promising approach for highly sensitive detection	4
Spectroscopic ellipsometry for low-dimensional materials and heterostructures	4