A. Nick Vamivakas

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

A. Nick Vamivakas is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Nick Vamivakas has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 37 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in A. Nick Vamivakas's work include 2D Materials and Applications (24 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (18 papers). A. Nick Vamivakas is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (24 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (18 papers). A. Nick Vamivakas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. A. Nick Vamivakas's co-authors include Chitraleema Chakraborty, Mete Atatüre, Kenneth M. Goodfellow, Ryan Beams, Dirk Englund, Sang‐Yun Lee, Jörg Wrachtrup, Laura Kinnischtzke, Yong Sheng Zhao and Chao‐Yang Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

A. Nick Vamivakas

100 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies

2018 497 citations Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
Voltage-controlled quantum light from an atomically thin semiconductor

2015 475 citations Chitraleema Chakraborty, Kenneth M. Goodfellow et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Nick Vamivakas United States	33	2.2k	1.9k	1.4k	750	676	108	3.8k
Jin Dong Song South Korea	29	2.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	3.0k 2.1×	883 1.2×	688 1.0×	295	4.3k
Leonardo de S. Menezes Brazil	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	653 0.9×	118 0.2×	109	2.7k
Jin Liu China	30	1.9k 0.9×	697 0.4×	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	550 0.8×	125	3.5k
Xiankai Sun Hong Kong	29	2.1k 0.9×	453 0.2×	2.2k 1.6×	606 0.8×	230 0.3×	133	3.2k
Shuqing Chen China	30	3.0k 1.4×	627 0.3×	2.4k 1.7×	892 1.2×	240 0.4×	142	4.0k
Xi‐Feng Ren China	28	1.6k 0.7×	403 0.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	728 1.1×	125	2.9k
Xiudong Sun China	29	1.7k 0.8×	752 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	654 0.9×	177 0.3×	282	3.2k
Yu He China	26	2.7k 1.2×	991 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	615 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	85	4.1k
Daniela Dragoman Romania	27	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	930 1.2×	121 0.2×	247	3.3k
Liantuan Xiao China	21	1.1k 0.5×	694 0.4×	668 0.5×	337 0.4×	480 0.7×	132	2.2k

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Mondal, M., A. Nick Vamivakas, Steven T. Cundiff, Todd D. Krauss, & Pengfei Huo. (2025). Polariton spectra under the collective coupling regime. II. 2D non-linear spectra. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(7). 3 indexed citations

Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2025). Diffusion of Valley-Coherent Dark Excitons in a Large-Angle Incommensurate Moiré Homobilayer. Nano Letters. 25(12). 4995–5002. 2 indexed citations

Mondal, M., A. Nick Vamivakas, Steven T. Cundiff, Todd D. Krauss, & Pengfei Huo. (2025). Polariton spectra under the collective coupling regime. I. Efficient simulation of linear spectra and quantum dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(1). 7 indexed citations

Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of Molecular Polariton Decoherence in the Collective Light–Matter Couplings Regime. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(47). 11773–11783. 13 indexed citations

Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2024). Framework for optimizing AR waveguide in-coupler architectures. Optics Express. 32(6). 9967–9967. 3 indexed citations

Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2024). Freeform manufacturing process optimized by automatically generated CAD model. 82–82. 1 indexed citations

Mukherjee, Arunabh, et al.. (2023). Characterization of the on-chip cavity coupled emission of 2D materials at room temperature. Optical Materials Express. 13(4). 843–843. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Kai, et al.. (2023). Nanothermometry in rarefied gas using optically levitated nanodiamonds. Optics Express. 31(22). 36219–36219.

Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and thermometry of NV- nanodiamond alpha-NaYF4 composite nanostructures. 7. 57–57. 2 indexed citations

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Liang, Kevin, Yiyu Zhou, Jing Yang, et al.. (2021). Experimental demonstration of superresolution of partially coherent light sources using parity sorting: erratum.. PubMed. 29(22). 35579–35579. 3 indexed citations

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Fu, Shichen, Kyungnam Kang, Kamran Shayan, et al.. (2020). Enabling room temperature ferromagnetism in monolayer MoS2 via in situ iron-doping. Nature Communications. 11(1). 143 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Arunabh, Kamran Shayan, Lizhong Li, et al.. (2020). Observation of site-controlled localized charged excitons in CrI3/WSe2 heterostructures. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5502–5502. 34 indexed citations

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Shayan, Kamran, et al.. (2020). Large barrier InAs quantum dots with efficient room temperature photon emission at telecom wavelengths. Applied Physics Letters. 116(20). 5 indexed citations

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Kang, Kyungnam, Shichen Fu, Kamran Shayan, et al.. (2020). The effects of substitutional Fe-doping on magnetism in MoS ₂ and WS ₂ monolayers. Nanotechnology. 32(9). 95708–95708. 26 indexed citations

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Visser, Taco D., et al.. (2020). A Fourier processor for partially coherent fields. OSA Continuum. 3(10). 2843–2843. 3 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Chitraleema, Nicholas R. Jungwirth, Gregory D. Fuchs, & A. Nick Vamivakas. (2019). Electrical manipulation of the fine-structure splitting of WSe₂ quantum emitters. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations

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Atatüre, Mete, Dirk Englund, A. Nick Vamivakas, Sang‐Yun Lee, & Jörg Wrachtrup. (2018). Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies. Nature Reviews Materials. 3(5). 38–51. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fienup, James R., et al.. (2017). Single-Pixel Phase Retrieval in Generalized Interferometry. CTu1B.2–CTu1B.2. 1 indexed citations

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Goodfellow, Kenneth M., Chitraleema Chakraborty, Kelly L. Sowers, et al.. (2016). Distance-dependent energy transfer between CdSe/CdS quantum dots and a two-dimensional semiconductor. Applied Physics Letters. 108(2). 51 indexed citations

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Vamivakas, A. Nick, et al.. (2016). Levitated Optomechanics. Optics and Photonics News. 27(7). 42–42. 4 indexed citations

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