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Laser Material Processing Techniques

Laser Material Processing Techniques is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of femtosecond laser technology for micromachining transparent materials, exploring mechanisms of laser ablation, nanosurgery of cells and tissues, electron-phonon coupling, surface structuring, waveguide writing, and heat accumulation effects. The research covers a wide range of applications from materials processing to optofluidic lab-on-chips and photonic device fabrication.

  • Femtosecond Laser
  • Micromachining
  • Transparent Materials
  • Ultrafast Dynamics
  • Laser Ablation
  • Surface Structures
  • Nanosurgery
  • Waveguide Writing
  • Heat Accumulation
  • Nanostructuring
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Laser Material Processing Techniques

Which countries lead Laser Material Processing Techniques research?

By volume, China and Germany publish the most (2k and 488 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 Germany 488 works
  3. 3 United States 471 works
  4. 4 Russia 352 works
  5. 5 India 256 works
  6. 6 Japan 255 works
  7. 7 France 244 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 140 works
  9. 9 Italy 110 works
  10. 10 South Korea 100 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 45.2%Germany: 11.1%United States: 10.7%Russia: 8.0%6 others listed: 25.0%45%largest
China1,996 · 45.2%Germany488 · 11.1%United States471 · 10.7%Russia352 · 8.0%6 others listed1,105 · 25.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Laser Material Processing Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Laser Material Processing Techniques research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 159 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 133 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 111 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 75 works
  5. 5 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 71 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 61 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 50 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 43 works
  10. 10 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Laser Material Processing Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Laser Material Processing Techniques include Xiaogang Wang, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Martin B. Leon United States 190k citations
  7. 7 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Kläus Müllen Germany 182k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Laser Material Processing Techniques?

The most cited paper in Laser Material Processing Techniques is "Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials" (Rafael R. Gattass, Eric Mazur, 2008), with 3,246 citations. Next come "Femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of solids" (2,956) and "Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media" (2,859).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials Rafael R. Gattass, Eric Mazur · Nature Photonics 31 Mar 2008 3,246
2 Femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of solids Boris N. Chichkov, Carsten Momma, Stefan Nolte et al. · Applied Physics A Aug 1996 2,956
3 Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media A. Couairon, A. Mysyrowicz · Physics Reports 7 Feb 2007 2,859
4 Three-dimensional microfabrication with two-photon-absorbed photopolymerization Shoji Maruo, Osamu Nakamura, Satoshi Kawata · Optics Letters 15 Jan 1997 1,948
5 Mechanisms of Pulsed Laser Ablation of Biological Tissues Alfred Vogel, Vasan Venugopalan · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access Feb 2003 1,922
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Where is Laser Material Processing Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Laser Material Processing Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Livermore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 337 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 163 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 161 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 129 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 119 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 95 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 88 works
  8. 8 ChangchunChina 79 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 73 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LivermoreUS · 30.9 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Laser Material Processing Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Laser Material Processing Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeastern Univers…Harbin Institute of …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Huazhong University …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 71.420.6%9.7×75 +44.0%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 64.833.8%3.4×14 +22.2%
3Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.516.6%7.1×61 +50.5%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.220.1%6.0×50 +8.4%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61.318.9%3.1×42 +70.1%
6Dalian University of TechnologyChina 60.323.7%6.6×30 +72.3%
7Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 59.317.0%7.4×41 +58.6%
8Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.828.9%4.6×12 +137.8%
9Central South UniversityChina 57.524.6%3.0×27 +72.4%
10Wuhan UniversityChina 55.826.8%2.6×17 +354.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Laser Material Processing Techniques, country by country

Is Laser Material Processing Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Laser Material Processing Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Laser Material Processing Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Laser Material Processing Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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