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Terahertz technology and applications

Terahertz technology and applications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to terahertz technology, including spectroscopy, imaging, security applications, biomedical applications, materials characterization, ultrafast pulse generation, metamaterials, pharmaceutical sciences, and nondestructive evaluation. The papers discuss cutting-edge techniques and applications in the field of terahertz technology.

  • Terahertz Technology
  • Spectroscopy
  • Imaging
  • Security Applications
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Materials Characterization
  • Ultrafast Pulse Generation
  • Metamaterials
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Nondestructive Evaluation
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Terahertz technology and applications

Which countries lead Terahertz technology and applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 402 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 402 works
  3. 3 Japan 319 works
  4. 4 India 289 works
  5. 5 Russia 281 works
  6. 6 Germany 275 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 162 works
  8. 8 France 140 works
  9. 9 South Korea 93 works
  10. 10 Canada 88 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: 45.8%United States: 10.6%Japan: 8.4%India: 7.6%6 others listed: 27.5%46%largest
China1,731 · 45.8%United States402 · 10.6%Japan319 · 8.4%India289 · 7.6%6 others listed1,039 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Terahertz technology and applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Terahertz technology and applications research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 165 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 139 works
  3. 3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 86 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  5. 5 Tianjin UniversityChina 51 works
  6. 6 Capital Normal UniversityChina 31 works
  7. 7 University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 31 works
  8. 8 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 31 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 30 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Terahertz technology and applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Terahertz technology and applications include Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  5. 5 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Kläus Müllen Germany 182k citations
  10. 10 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k 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 Terahertz technology and applications?

The most cited paper in Terahertz technology and applications is "Cutting-edge terahertz technology" (Masayoshi Tonouchi, 2007), with 6,320 citations. Next come "Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields" (3,533) and "Materials for terahertz science and technology" (3,294).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cutting-edge terahertz technology Masayoshi Tonouchi · Nature Photonics Feb 2007 6,320
2 Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields Douglas R. Hofstadter · Physical review. B, Solid state 15 Sep 1976 3,533
3 Materials for terahertz science and technology Bradley S. Ferguson, X.-C. Zhang · Nature Materials Sep 2002 3,294
4 Terahertz technology Peter H. Siegel · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Mar 2002 3,034
5 Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser Rüdeger Köhler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram et al. · Nature May 2002 2,723
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Where is Terahertz technology and applications research done?

The largest centres of Terahertz technology and applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nizhny Novgorod and Essen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 397 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 122 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 119 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 114 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 93 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 90 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 86 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 74 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 72 works
  10. 10 ShenzhenChina 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 34.9 works17×
  2. EssenDE · 30.7 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Terahertz technology and applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Terahertz technology and applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Nankai University, Pabna University of Science and Technology and Tianjin 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%20%40%mean 18.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nankai UniversityPabna University of …University of Scienc…Tianjin 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
1Nankai UniversityChina 72.230.2%10.6×28 +18.3%
2Pabna University of Science and TechnologyBangladesh 61.529.5%79.9×9 -
3Tianjin UniversityChina 55.512.4%10.7×51 +9.0%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 55.123.3%4.1×19 +79.3%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 53.819.6%2.3×24 +36.0%
6Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 50.519.2%3.6×11 -18.0%
7Guilin University of Electronic TechnologyChina 49.910.9%25.1×27 +63.9%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 49.16.0%19.7×86 -10.7%
9China Jiliang UniversityChina 48.814.6%33.2×28 +83.7%
10University of Shanghai for Science and TechnologyChina 48.716.4%12.7×21 +9.1%

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 Terahertz technology and applications, country by country

Is Terahertz technology and applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Terahertz technology and 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 Terahertz technology and applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Terahertz technology 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.

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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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