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Photonic Crystals and Applications

Photonic Crystals and Applications is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 49k 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 advances in photonic crystal research, including topics such as nanocavities, slow light, colloidal crystals, structural coloration, biomimicry, optical sensors, waveguides, and bandgap materials. The research covers a wide range of applications and fabrication techniques for photonic crystals.

  • Photonic Crystals
  • Nanocavities
  • Slow Light
  • Colloidal Crystals
  • Structural Coloration
  • Biomimicry
  • Optical Sensors
  • Waveguides
  • Bandgap Materials
  • Electromagnetic Simulations
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Photonic Crystals and Applications

Which countries lead Photonic Crystals and Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 735 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 735 works
  3. 3 India 463 works
  4. 4 Russia 385 works
  5. 5 Japan 339 works
  6. 6 France 227 works
  7. 7 Germany 221 works
  8. 8 South Korea 220 works
  9. 9 Iran 185 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 176 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: 44.4%United States: 13.8%India: 8.7%Russia: 7.2%6 others listed: 25.8%44%largest
China2,359 · 44.4%United States735 · 13.8%India463 · 8.7%Russia385 · 7.2%6 others listed1,367 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Photonic Crystals and Applications research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 184 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 122 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 118 works
  4. 4 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 55 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 53 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 44 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 37 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 37 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 Nanjing UniversityChina 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Photonic Crystals and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Photonic Crystals and 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 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Photonic Crystals and Applications?

The most cited paper in Photonic Crystals and Applications is "Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens" (John Brian Pendry, 2000), with 12,187 citations. Next come "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics" (11,670) and "Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices" (10,049).

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 Surface plasmon subwavelength optics William L. Barnes, Alain Dereux, Thomas W. Ebbesen · Nature Aug 2003 11,670
3 Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices Sajeev John · Physical Review Letters Open access 8 Jun 1987 10,049
4 Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction R. A. Shelby, David R. Smith, Sheldon Schultz · Science 6 Apr 2001 9,327
5 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
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Photonic Crystals and Applications research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 401 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 204 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 190 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 129 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 121 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 119 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 99 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 99 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 95 works
  10. 10 ShenzhenChina 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PohangKR · 20.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Photonic Crystals and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Photonic Crystals and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Fudan University, Beni-Suef University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 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 22.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beni-Suef UniversityFudan UniversityUniversity of Chines…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
1Fudan UniversityChina 64.224.0%4.0×37 +59.5%
2Beni-Suef UniversityEgypt 64.138.0%15.5×14 -38.6%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63.118.8%4.6×44 +49.7%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 63.017.4%3.4×53 +16.2%
5Pohang University of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 62.031.8%12.8×16 +44.3%
6Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 60.720.9%9.5×26 +34.1%
7Dalian University of TechnologyChina 57.725.0%3.7×21 +25.4%
8Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 56.55.9%22.1×55 +54.8%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 55.523.7%2.4×29 +15.5%
10Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.422.0%5.8×18 +61.7%

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 Photonic Crystals and Applications, country by country

Is Photonic Crystals and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% 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 Photonic Crystals and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Photonic Crystals and Applications0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Photonic Crystals and 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%Photonic Crystals and Applications9.8% 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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