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Papers

(The median citation count of Nanophotonics is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ultrasensitive terahertz sensing with high-Q toroidal dipole resonance governed by bound states in the continuum in all-dielectric metasurface	215
Polariton panorama	183
Nanostructured inorganic electrochromic materials for light applications	119
THz spintronic emitters: a review on achievements and future challenges	101
Polymerization mechanisms initiated by spatio-temporally confined light	81
Chip-based optical frequency combs for high-capacity optical communications	75
Optical vortex lattice: an exploitation of orbital angular momentum	69
Recent advances in fluorescence probes based on carbon dots for sensing and speciation of heavy metals	69
Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review	69
Near-zero reflection of all-dielectric structural coloration enabling polarization-sensitive optical encryption with enhanced switchability	63
Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces	59
Recent advances in ultraviolet nanophotonics: from plasmonics and metamaterials to metasurfaces	59
Multiplexed supercell metasurface design and optimization with tandem residual networks	59
Silicon–germanium receivers for short-wave-infrared optoelectronics and communications	58
Quasi-bound states in the continuum with a stable resonance wavelength in dimer dielectric metasurfaces	57
Topological polarization singularities in metaphotonics	56
End-to-end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry	52
Ligand-induced chirality and optical activity in semiconductor nanocrystals: theory and applications	52
Manipulating the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) activity and plasmon-driven catalytic efficiency by the control of Ag NP/graphene layers under optical excitation	51
Ultrafast mode-locking in highly stacked Ti₃C₂T_x MXenes for 1.9-μm infrared femtosecond pulsed lasers	50
An ultrabroadband 3D achromatic metalens	48
Highly responsive near-infrared photodetector with low dark current using graphene/germanium Schottky junction with Al₂O₃ interfacial layer	47
Digital nanophotonics: the highway to the integration of subwavelength-scale photonics	46
In situ charge carrier dynamics of semiconductor nanostructures for advanced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic applications	46
Liquid crystal lasers: the last decade and the future	43

Ultracompact and low-power-consumption silicon thermo-optic switch for high-speed data	43
Significantly enhanced second-harmonic generations with all-dielectric antenna array working in the quasi-bound states in the continuum and excited by linearly polarized plane waves	42
Quantum nanophotonic and nanoplasmonic sensing: towards quantum optical bioscience laboratories on chip	40
Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications	37
All-dielectric chiral coding metasurface based on spin-decoupling in terahertz band	37
Carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber lasers: recent progress and perspectives	36
Analog signal processing through space-time digital metasurfaces	35
Spectral imaging and spectral LIDAR systems: moving toward compact nanophotonics-based sensing	35
Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces	35
Towards lab-on-chip ultrasensitive ethanol detection using photonic crystal waveguide operating in the mid-infrared	34
The road to atomically thin metasurface optics	34
Substrate-mediated hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO₃	31
Supported polyoxometalates as emerging nanohybrid materials for photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting	31
Enhanced broadband nonlinear optical response of TiO₂/CuO nanosheets via oxygen vacancy engineering	30
High-efficiency and high-speed germanium photodetector enabled by multiresonant photonic crystal	30
Large-scale, power-efficient Au/VO₂ active metasurfaces for ultrafast optical modulation	30
Nanowire-based integrated photonics for quantum information and quantum sensing	29
Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties	25
Nanoscale confinement of energy deposition in glass by double ultrafast Bessel pulses	23
Designing high-efficiency extended depth-of-focus metalens via topology-shape optimization	22
Self-powered broadband photodetector based on MoS₂/Sb₂Te₃ heterojunctions: a promising approach for highly sensitive detection	22
Nanoscale structural characterization of plasmon-driven reactions	22
Lab on optical fiber: surface nano-functionalization for real-time monitoring of VOC adsorption/desorption in metal-organic frameworks	22
A broadband, self-powered, and polarization-sensitive PdSe₂ photodetector based on asymmetric van der Waals contacts	21
Carbon nanomaterials for phototherapy	20
On-chip optical spatial-domain integrator based on Fourier optics and metasurface	20
Ultrafast laser manufacturing of nanofluidic systems	19
Self-mixing interferometry and near-field nanoscopy in quantum cascade random lasers at terahertz frequencies	19
Recent advances in optical label-free characterization of extracellular vesicles	19
Pure spin current generation with photogalvanic effect in graphene interconnect junctions	19
Extreme thermal anisotropy in high-aspect-ratio titanium nitride nanostructures for efficient photothermal heating	19
The potential of SERS as an AST methodology in clinical settings	19
Sustainable chemistry with plasmonic photocatalysts	18
Ultrathin, broadband, omnidirectional, and polarization-independent infrared absorber using all-dielectric refractory materials	18
Raman scattering in high-refractive-index nanostructures	17
Engineering photonic environments for two-dimensional materials	17
Plasmonically enhanced photoluminescence of monolayer MoS₂ via nanosphere lithography-templated gold metasurfaces	17
Multitask bidirectional digital coding metasurface for independent controls of multiband and full-space electromagnetic waves	17
3D nanopolymerization and damage threshold dependence on laser wavelength and pulse duration	17
Surface plasmon polariton–enhanced photoluminescence of monolayer MoS₂ on suspended periodic metallic structures	17
Integrated and spectrally selective thermal emitters enabled by layered metamaterials	17
Redeposition-free inductively-coupled plasma etching of lithium niobate for integrated photonics	17
Dual functionality metamaterial enables ultra-compact, highly sensitive uncooled infrared sensor	16
Recent progress of dynamic mode manipulation via acousto-optic interactions in few-mode fiber lasers: mechanism, device and applications	16
Recent advances in theab initiotheory of solid-state defect qubits	16
Near-infrared dual-wavelength plasmonic switching and digital metasurface unveiled by plasmonic Fano resonance	16
Spectroscopic ellipsometry for low-dimensional materials and heterostructures	15
Injection locking in an optomechanical coherent phonon source	15
The experimental evidence of a strong coupling regime in the hybrid Tamm plasmon-surface plasmon polariton mode	15
Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum	15

Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond	15
End-to-end design of metasurface-based complex-amplitude holograms by physics-driven deep neural networks	14
Manganese-functionalized MXene theranostic nanoplatform for MRI-guided synergetic photothermal/chemodynamic therapy of cancer	14
Silicon integrated multi-mode ring resonator	13
Telecom single-photon emitters in GaN operating at room temperature: embedment into bullseye antennas	13
Purcell enhancement and polarization control of single-photon emitters in monolayer WSe₂ using dielectric nanoantennas	13
Asymmetric transmission in nanophotonics	13
Gigahertz femtosecond laser-by a novel asymmetric one-dimensional photonic crystal saturable absorber device with defect layer	13
Directional launching of surface plasmon polaritons by electrically driven aperiodic groove array reflectors	13
Recent advances in nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems	13
Few picosecond dynamics of intraband transitions in THz HgTe nanocrystals	13
Heterostructured CuO@ZnO@Ag biomimetic setaria as wettability-switchable difunctional SERS substrate for trace pesticide and DNA detections	13
Recent advances in quantum nanophotonics: plexcitonic and vibro-polaritonic strong coupling and its biomedical and chemical applications	13
Passive photonic diodes based on natural van der Waals heterostructures	13
Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons	13
Copper decorated Ti₃C₂ nanosystem with NIR-II-induced GSH-depletion and reactive oxygen species generation for efficient nanodynamic therapy	12
Dynamically controlling local field enhancement at an epsilon-near-zero/dielectric interface via nonlinearities of an epsilon-near-zero medium	12
Expedited circular dichroism prediction and engineering in two-dimensional diffractive chiral metamaterials leveraging a powerful model-agnostic data enhancement algorithm	12
Three birds with one stone: oxygen self-supply engineering palladium nanocluster/titanium carbide hybrid for single-NIR laser-triggered synergistic photodynamic-photothermal therapy	12
Deterministic generation of parametrically driven dissipative Kerr soliton	12
Formation of laser-induced periodic surface nanometric concentric ring structures on silicon surfaces through single-spot irradiation with orthogonally polarized femtosecond laser double-pulse sequenc	12
Nanoparticle-on-mirror pairs: building blocks for remote spectroscopies	12
Broadband and ultrafast all-optical switching based on transition metal carbide	12
Autologous tumor antigens and boron nanosheet-based nanovaccines for enhanced photo-immunotherapy against immune desert tumors	11
Electrically switchable metallic polymer metasurface device with gel polymer electrolyte	11
Crosstalk prohibition at the deep-subwavelength scale by epsilon-near-zero claddings	11
Controlling surface waves with temporal discontinuities of metasurfaces	11
Local field effects in ultrafast light–matter interaction measured by pump-probe spectroscopy of monolayer MoSe₂	11
Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes	11
Black phosphorus nanosheets and paclitaxel encapsulated hydrogel for synergistic photothermal-chemotherapy	11
Shaping the quantum vacuum with anisotropic temporal boundaries	11
Induced homomorphism: Kirchhoff’s law in photonics	11
Highly conformable terahertz metasurface absorbers via two-photon polymerization on polymeric ultra-thin films	11
Emerging nanophotonic biosensor technologies for virus detection	11
One-dimensional planar topological laser	10
Deuterated SiNx: a low-loss, back-end CMOS-compatible platform for nonlinear integrated optics	9
Electrically injected parity-time symmetric distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB) for telecom applications	9
Single-shot imaging of surface molecular ionization in nanosystems	9
Non-linear interferometry with infrared metasurfaces	9
Reversible electrical switching of nanostructural color pixels	9
Cross-nanofin-based waveplate pixels for broadband hybrid polarization coding in near-field	9
Fabrication of quantum dot and ring arrays by direct laser interference patterning for nanophotonics	9
Plasmon extinguishment by bandedge shift identified as a second-order spectroscopic differentiation	9
Degradation mechanisms of perovskite light-emitting diodes under electrical bias	9
High numerical aperture imaging allows chirality measurement in individual collagen fibrils using polarization second harmonic generation microscopy	9
Broadband nonlinear optical modulator enabled by VO₂/V₂O₅ core–shell heterostructures	9
Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference	9
Regulating disordered plasmonic nanoparticles into polarization sensitive metasurfaces	8
Full-color generation enabled by refractory plasmonic crystals	8
Fabrication of single color centers in sub-50 nm nanodiamonds using ion implantation	8
Towards chiral acoustoplasmonics	8
Ultralow loss visible light metamaterials assembled by metaclusters	8
Tunable nonlinear optical responses of few-layer graphene through lithium intercalation	8
Quantum-enhanced interferometer using Kerr squeezing	8
Superheterodyne-inspired waveguide-integrated metasurfaces for flexible free-space light manipulation	8
Monocular depth sensing using metalens	8
Parity-time symmetry and coherent perfect absorption in a cooperative atom response	8
Metasurface for complete measurement of polarization Bell state	8
Enhanced electric field sensitivity of quantum dot/rod two-photon fluorescence and its relevance for cell transmembrane voltage imaging	8
Data-driven concurrent nanostructure optimization based on conditional generative adversarial networks	7
Replicating physical motion with Minkowskian isorefractive spacetime crystals	7
Inverse design in quantum nanophotonics: combining local-density-of-states and deep learning	7
Dynamic beam control based on electrically switchable nanogratings from conducting polymers	7
λ/20 surface nanostructuring of ZnO by mask-less ultrafast laser processing	7
Direct laser writing of 3D metallic mid- and far-infrared wave components	7
Multi-photon polymerization using upconversion nanoparticles for tunable feature-size printing	7
Singular optics empowered by engineered optical materials	7
Adaptive optics enables multimode 3D super-resolution microscopy via remote focusing	7
Nano-kirigami enabled chiral nano-cilia with enhanced circular dichroism at visible wavelengths	7
Asymmetric Ge/SiGe coupled quantum well modulators	7
Unmixing octopus camouflage by multispectral mapping of Octopus bimaculoides’ chromatic elements	7
Double moiré localized plasmon structured illumination microscopy	7