OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nanophotonics is 15. 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
Recent advances in fluorescence probes based on carbon dots for sensing and speciation of heavy metals	69
Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review	69
Optical vortex lattice: an exploitation of orbital angular momentum	69
Near-zero reflection of all-dielectric structural coloration enabling polarization-sensitive optical encryption with enhanced switchability	63
Recent advances in ultraviolet nanophotonics: from plasmonics and metamaterials to metasurfaces	59
Multiplexed supercell metasurface design and optimization with tandem residual networks	59
Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces	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
All-dielectric chiral coding metasurface based on spin-decoupling in terahertz band	37
Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications	37
Carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber lasers: recent progress and perspectives	36
Spectral imaging and spectral LIDAR systems: moving toward compact nanophotonics-based sensing	35
Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces	35
Analog signal processing through space-time digital metasurfaces	35
The road to atomically thin metasurface optics	34
Towards lab-on-chip ultrasensitive ethanol detection using photonic crystal waveguide operating in the mid-infrared	34
Substrate-mediated hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO₃	31
Supported polyoxometalates as emerging nanohybrid materials for photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting	31
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
Enhanced broadband nonlinear optical response of TiO₂/CuO nanosheets via oxygen vacancy engineering	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
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
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
A broadband, self-powered, and polarization-sensitive PdSe₂ photodetector based on asymmetric van der Waals contacts	21
On-chip optical spatial-domain integrator based on Fourier optics and metasurface	20
Carbon nanomaterials for phototherapy	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
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
Raman scattering in high-refractive-index nanostructures	17
Engineering photonic environments for two-dimensional materials	17
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
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
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

Spectroscopic ellipsometry for low-dimensional materials and heterostructures