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Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1956. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study and applications of metamaterials, including their role in achieving negative refraction, the design and properties of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces, the principles of transformation optics, the development of chiral metamaterials, and the exploration of metamaterials in terahertz and nanophotonic systems. Additionally, it covers topics such as optical cloaking and the utilization of photonic crystals.

  • Metamaterials
  • Negative Refraction
  • Plasmonic Metasurfaces
  • Dielectric Metasurfaces
  • Transformation Optics
  • Chiral Metamaterials
  • Terahertz Metamaterials
  • Nanophotonics
  • Optical Cloaking
  • Photonic Crystals
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
66% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Which countries lead Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (7.1k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 7.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 826 works
  4. 4 South Korea 324 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 284 works
  6. 6 France 257 works
  7. 7 Japan 248 works
  8. 8 Iran 239 works
  9. 9 Italy 220 works
  10. 10 Germany 188 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: 66.4%United States: 9.5%India: 7.7%South Korea: 3.0%6 others listed: 13.4%66%largest
China7,096 · 66.4%United States1,011 · 9.5%India826 · 7.7%South Korea324 · 3.0%6 others listed1,436 · 13.4%

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

Which institutions lead Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research, followed by Southeast University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 365 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 195 works
  3. 3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 162 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 142 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 141 works
  6. 6 Nanjing UniversityChina 125 works
  7. 7 Xidian UniversityChina 124 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 120 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 115 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 113 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  9. 9 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications?

The most cited paper in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications is "Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens" (John Brian Pendry, 2000), with 12,187 citations. Next come "Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction" (10,346) and "Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction" (9,327).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens John Brian Pendry · Physical Review Letters Open access 30 Oct 2000 12,187
2 Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction Nanfang Yu, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail A. Kats et al. · Science Sep 2011 10,346
3 Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction R. A. Shelby, David R. Smith, Sheldon Schultz · Science 6 Apr 2001 9,327
4 Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity David R. Smith, Willie J. Padilla, David C. Vier et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access May 2000 8,820
5 Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena John Brian Pendry, A.J. Holden, David Robbins et al. · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 1999 8,749
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Where is Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research done?

The largest centres of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing and Pohang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 965 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 710 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 668 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 442 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 324 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 314 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 261 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 256 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 247 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 209 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing46.8 works35×
  2. PohangKR · 46.4 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Hubei University of Automotive Technology and Southeast University 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%25%50%75%mean 26.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hubei University of …Qingdao UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…Southeast 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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 65.028.5%11.3×140 +22.0%
2Hubei University of Automotive TechnologyChina 64.469.5%19.5×10 +483.4%
3Southeast UniversityChina 59.810.9%12.1×195 +20.1%
4Qingdao UniversityChina 58.545.4%3.8×28 +34.2%
5Nanjing UniversityChina 56.414.5%12.5×125 +27.4%
6City University of Hong KongChina 56.213.9%9.7×61 +98.4%
7Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 54.816.1%8.0×104 +21.5%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54.711.3%7.9×142 +24.8%
9Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.837.5%6.4×23 +27.2%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.312.6%3.9×115 +33.7%

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 Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, country by country

Is Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications.

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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 Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications0.050% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications 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%Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications9.6% in 202520102020

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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