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Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Mechanical and Optical Resonators is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 53k 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 field of cavity optomechanics and nanomechanical systems, exploring topics such as achieving quantum ground state of mechanical oscillators, cavity cooling techniques, biosensors based on micromechanical resonators, magnon-photon interactions, photon blockade effects, entanglement between mechanical and optical systems, and ultra-sensitive sensing applications.

  • Optomechanics
  • Nanomechanical Systems
  • Quantum Ground State
  • Cavity Cooling
  • Biosensors
  • Micromechanical Resonators
  • Magnons
  • Photon Blockade
  • Entanglement
  • Sensing
Research works
53k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Which countries lead Mechanical and Optical Resonators research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1.2k works
  3. 3 Germany 399 works
  4. 4 Japan 375 works
  5. 5 India 374 works
  6. 6 France 312 works
  7. 7 Russia 269 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 248 works
  9. 9 Italy 208 works
  10. 10 Canada 148 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: 41.5%United States: 19.9%Germany: 6.6%Japan: 6.2%6 others listed: 25.8%42%largest
China2,508 · 41.5%United States1,200 · 19.9%Germany399 · 6.6%Japan375 · 6.2%6 others listed1,559 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Mechanical and Optical Resonators research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mechanical and Optical Resonators research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 202 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 148 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 85 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 64 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 55 works
  6. 6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 54 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 53 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 49 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mechanical and Optical Resonators?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mechanical and Optical Resonators include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  9. 9 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  10. 10 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k 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 Mechanical and Optical Resonators?

The most cited paper in Mechanical and Optical Resonators is "A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve" (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley, 1952), with 23,507 citations. Next come "Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Models" (16,860) and "Atomic Force Microscope" (14,628).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley · The Journal of Physiology Open access 28 Aug 1952 23,507
2 Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Models Jacopo Tomasi, Benedetta Mennucci, Roberto Cammi · Chemical Reviews Review 26 Jul 2005 16,860
3 Atomic Force Microscope Gerd K. Binnig, C. F. Quate, Ch. Gerber · Physical Review Letters Open access 3 Mar 1986 14,628
4 Statistical-Mechanical Theory of Irreversible Processes. I. General Theory and Simple Applications to Magnetic and Conduction Problems Ryogo Kubo · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Jun 1957 9,526
5 WSXM : A software for scanning probe microscopy and a tool for nanotechnology Ignacio Horcas, Robert Fernandez, José María Gómez‐Rodríguez et al. · Review of Scientific Instruments Open access 2007 7,765
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Where is Mechanical and Optical Resonators research done?

The largest centres of Mechanical and Optical Resonators research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yanji, Gaithersburg and Pasadena.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 455 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 207 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 148 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 137 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 129 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 128 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 125 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 112 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 103 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 92 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YanjiCN · 21.4 works24×
  2. GaithersburgUS · 30.4 works20×
  3. PasadenaUS · 37.8 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mechanical and Optical Resonators than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mechanical and Optical Resonators?

Among universities, judged by research, California Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University and ETH Zurich 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 19.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hydera…ETH ZurichCalifornia Institute…Zhejiang 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
1California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 74.621.2%15.0×37 +6.7%
2Zhejiang UniversityChina 69.718.5%3.5×64 +39.1%
3ETH ZurichSwitzerland 68.624.5%6.8×32 -21.7%
4University of HyderabadIndia 63.530.1%10.0×10 +133.8%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 62.821.2%3.6×36 -36.1%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.213.9%3.9×44 +32.2%
7Peking UniversityChina 61.016.4%3.2×45 +11.6%
8Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 60.916.4%7.0×32 -10.5%
9University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 59.99.9%7.0×54 +55.8%
10Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.619.8%3.9×49 -19.4%

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 Mechanical and Optical Resonators, country by country

Is Mechanical and Optical Resonators research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Mechanical and Optical Resonators as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Mechanical and Optical Resonators0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mechanical and Optical Resonators 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.

still counting5%10%15%Mechanical and Optical Resonators9.8% in 2025200020102020

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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