OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nanophotonics is 18. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Ultrasensitive terahertz sensing with high-Q toroidal dipole resonance governed by bound states in the continuum in all-dielectric metasurface	191
Polariton panorama	170
Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point	145
Hydrophobic multiscale cavities for high-performance and self-cleaning surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing	143
Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective	138
Nanostructured inorganic electrochromic materials for light applications	111
Palladium diselenide as a direct absorption saturable absorber for ultrafast mode-locked operations: from all anomalous dispersion to all normal dispersion	109
Advances in ultrafast laser structuring of materials at the nanoscale	100
THz spintronic emitters: a review on achievements and future challenges	96
Meta-optics for spatial optical analog computing	95
Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more	92
Design for quality: reconfigurable flat optics based on active metasurfaces	92
On-chip nanophotonics and future challenges	90
Topological photonics: Where do we go from here?	85
Misalignment resilient diffractive optical networks	84
Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics	79
Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices	78
Polymerization mechanisms initiated by spatio-temporally confined light	76
Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective	73
Dual-polarized multiplexed meta-holograms utilizing coding metasurface	72
Chip-based optical frequency combs for high-capacity optical communications	64
Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review	63
Optical vortex lattice: an exploitation of orbital angular momentum	63
Recent advances in fluorescence probes based on carbon dots for sensing and speciation of heavy metals	63
Bound states in the continuum (BIC) accompanied by avoided crossings in leaky-mode photonic lattices	60

Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry	60
Near-zero reflection of all-dielectric structural coloration enabling polarization-sensitive optical encryption with enhanced switchability	57
Multipolar second-harmonic generation from high-Q quasi-BIC states in subwavelength resonators	56
Silicon–germanium receivers for short-wave-infrared optoelectronics and communications	55
Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces	55
Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing	54
Multiplexed supercell metasurface design and optimization with tandem residual networks	52
Recent advances in ultraviolet nanophotonics: from plasmonics and metamaterials to metasurfaces	52
End-to-end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry	51
Topological polarization singularities in metaphotonics	51
Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems	50
Manipulating the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) activity and plasmon-driven catalytic efficiency by the control of Ag NP/graphene layers under optical excitation	49
Advanced encryption method realized by secret shared phase encoding scheme using a multi-wavelength metasurface	49
Tunable optical metasurfaces enabled by multiple modulation mechanisms	48
Ligand-induced chirality and optical activity in semiconductor nanocrystals: theory and applications	47
Highly responsive near-infrared photodetector with low dark current using graphene/germanium Schottky junction with Al₂O₃ interfacial layer	46
Quasi-bound states in the continuum with a stable resonance wavelength in dimer dielectric metasurfaces	46
Digital nanophotonics: the highway to the integration of subwavelength-scale photonics	46
Ultrafast mode-locking in highly stacked Ti₃C₂T_x MXenes for 1.9-μm infrared femtosecond pulsed lasers	45
Active nonlocal metasurfaces	45
An ultrabroadband 3D achromatic metalens	45
Hexagonal transverse-coupled-cavity VCSEL redefining the high-speed lasers	45
In situ charge carrier dynamics of semiconductor nanostructures for advanced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic applications	45
Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies	43
Opportunities for integrated photonic neural networks	43
Topological phases in ring resonators: recent progress and future prospects	42
Ultracompact and low-power-consumption silicon thermo-optic switch for high-speed data	41
Helicity-delinked manipulations on surface waves and propagating waves by metasurfaces	41
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	40
Time-varying optical vortices enabled by time-modulated metasurfaces	39
Chemiluminescent carbon nanodots as sensors for hydrogen peroxide and glucose	37
All-dielectric chiral coding metasurface based on spin-decoupling in terahertz band	37
Solar-blind ultraviolet photodetector based on vertically aligned single-crystalline β-Ga₂O₃ nanowire arrays	37
Liquid crystal lasers: the last decade and the future	36
Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions	36
Quantum nanophotonic and nanoplasmonic sensing: towards quantum optical bioscience laboratories on chip	36
Free-standing reduced graphene oxide (rGO) membrane for salt-rejecting solar desalination via size effect	36
Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks	35
Perspective on using multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams for enhanced capacity in free-space optical communication links	35
Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications	34
The road to atomically thin metasurface optics	34
Analog signal processing through space-time digital metasurfaces	33
Carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber lasers: recent progress and perspectives	33
Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces	32
Spectral imaging and spectral LIDAR systems: moving toward compact nanophotonics-based sensing	32
Microwave oscillator and frequency comb in a silicon optomechanical cavity with a full phononic bandgap	30
Towards lab-on-chip ultrasensitive ethanol detection using photonic crystal waveguide operating in the mid-infrared	30
High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature	30
Substrate-mediated hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO₃	29
Supported polyoxometalates as emerging nanohybrid materials for photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting	29

High-efficiency and high-speed germanium photodetector enabled by multiresonant photonic crystal	29
Strong spin squeezing induced by weak squeezing of light inside a cavity	29
Primer on silicon neuromorphic photonic processors: architecture and compiler	29
Large-scale, power-efficient Au/VO₂ active metasurfaces for ultrafast optical modulation	29
Enhanced broadband nonlinear optical response of TiO₂/CuO nanosheets via oxygen vacancy engineering	29
Second harmonic generation in metasurfaces with multipole resonant coupling	27
A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy	27
Superlattice nonlinearities for Gigahertz-Terahertz generation in harmonic multipliers	27
A large field-of-view metasurface for complex-amplitude hologram breaking numerical aperture limitation	26
High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields	26
Nonlinear nanophotonic devices in the ultraviolet to visible wavelength range	25
Titanium dioxide metasurface manipulating high-efficiency and broadband photonic spin Hall effect in visible regime	25
Robust optical physical unclonable function using disordered photonic integrated circuits	25
Flexibly tunable surface plasmon resonance by strong mode coupling using a random metal nanohemisphere on mirror	25
Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties	24
Temporal plasmonics: Fano and Rabi regimes in the time domain in metal nanostructures	24
Nanowire-based integrated photonics for quantum information and quantum sensing	23
Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal	23
Recent progress on applications of 2D material-decorated microfiber photonic devices in pulse shaping and all-optical signal processing	23
Electron-driven photon sources for correlative electron-photon spectroscopy with electron microscopes	23
Polarization-sensitive photodetectors based on three-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) field-effect transistors	23
Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum	22
Large-scale monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) for mid-infrared photonics	22
Nanoscale confinement of energy deposition in glass by double ultrafast Bessel pulses	22
Purcell-enhanced emission from individual SiV⁻ center in nanodiamonds coupled to a Si₃N₄-based, photonic crystal cavity	22
Strong spin–orbit interaction of photonic skyrmions at the general optical interface	21
Fourier-plane investigation of plasmonic bound states in the continuum and molecular emission coupling	21
On-chip arbitrary-mode spot size conversion	21
Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies	21
Nanoscale structural characterization of plasmon-driven reactions	21
Self-powered broadband photodetector based on MoS₂/Sb₂Te₃ heterojunctions: a promising approach for highly sensitive detection	21
Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption	20
A simple transfer-matrix model for metasurface multilayer systems	20
Designing high-efficiency extended depth-of-focus metalens via topology-shape optimization	20
Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration	19
Multiresonant plasmonic nanostructure for ultrasensitive fluorescence biosensing	19
Pure spin current generation with photogalvanic effect in graphene interconnect junctions	19
On-chip optical spatial-domain integrator based on Fourier optics and metasurface	19
Ultrafast laser manufacturing of nanofluidic systems	19
On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage	19
Controlling the plasmon resonance via epsilon-near-zero multilayer metamaterials	18
Near-field resonant photon sorting applied: dual-band metasurface quantum well infrared photodetectors for gas sensing	18
High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light	18
Amplification by stimulated emission of nitrogen-vacancy centres in a diamond-loaded fibre cavity	18
Black phosphorus (BP)–graphene guided-wave surface plasmon resonance (GWSPR) biosensor	18
A broadband, self-powered, and polarization-sensitive PdSe₂ photodetector based on asymmetric van der Waals contacts	18
Lab on optical fiber: surface nano-functionalization for real-time monitoring of VOC adsorption/desorption in metal-organic frameworks	18
Active plasmonic nanoantenna: an emerging toolbox from photonics to neuroscience	18
Extreme thermal anisotropy in high-aspect-ratio titanium nitride nanostructures for efficient photothermal heating	18
Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs	18