A. Persoons

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

A. Persoons is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Persoons has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in A. Persoons's work include Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (17 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (6 papers). A. Persoons is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (17 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (6 papers). A. Persoons collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. A. Persoons's co-authors include J. L. Brédas, Peter Tackx, C. Adant, Koen Clays, Thierry Verbiest, Inge Asselberghs, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Michael D. Ward, Jon A. McCleverty and Eric Hendrickx and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

A. Persoons

22 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response in Organic Materials: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects

1994 1.2k citations J. L. Brédas, C. Adant et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Persoons Belgium	14	1.3k	948	644	551	381	22	2.1k
Carl W. Dirk United States	25	1.4k 1.0×	976 1.0×	544 0.8×	534 1.0×	468 1.2×	65	2.3k
Marguerite Barzoukas France	28	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	512 0.8×	861 1.6×	498 1.3×	51	2.3k
Lap‐Tak Cheng United States	16	1.1k 0.8×	980 1.0×	363 0.6×	588 1.1×	382 1.0×	33	1.9k
Lap Tak Cheng United States	7	1.4k 1.1×	941 1.0×	444 0.7×	869 1.6×	408 1.1×	7	2.1k
Alain Fort France	32	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	571 0.9×	908 1.6×	513 1.3×	97	2.8k
C. Adant Belgium	7	1.1k 0.9×	623 0.7×	493 0.8×	637 1.2×	265 0.7×	8	1.7k
Grant Bourhill United Kingdom	24	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	620 1.0×	778 1.4×	587 1.5×	50	2.9k
Peter V. Bedworth United States	16	852 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	757 1.2×	523 0.9×	245 0.6×	23	1.8k
Stephan Houbrechts Belgium	26	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	422 0.7×	1.0k 1.9×	369 1.0×	38	2.6k
David R. Kanis United States	13	2.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	441 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	599 1.6×	13	3.0k

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Verbiest, Thierry, Sonja Sioncke, Guy Koeckelberghs, et al.. (2005). Nonlinear optical properties of spincoated films of chiral polythiophenes. Chemical Physics Letters. 404(1-3). 112–115. 11 indexed citations

Gangopadhyay, Palash, et al.. (2005). Novel superparamagnetic Core(Shell) nanoparticles for magnetic targeted drug delivery and hyperthermia treatment. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 41(10). 4194–4196. 54 indexed citations

Koeckelberghs, Guy, Celest Samyn, Atsushi Miura, et al.. (2005). Polar Order in Spin‐Coated Films of a Regioregular Chiral Poly[(S)‐3‐(3,7‐dimethyloctyl)thiophene]. Advanced Materials. 17(6). 708–712. 17 indexed citations

Asselberghs, Inge, Koen Clays, A. Persoons, Michael D. Ward, & Jon A. McCleverty. (2004). Switching of molecular second-order polarisability in solution. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 14(19). 2831–2831. 148 indexed citations

Hendrickx, Eric, et al.. (2002). Efficient Functionalized Photorefractive Polymers with Infrared Sensitivity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 106(18). 4588–4595. 2 indexed citations

Coe, Benjamin J., J. Arthur Harris, Inge Asselberghs, et al.. (2002). Quadratic Nonlinear Optical Properties ofN-Aryl Stilbazolium Dyes. Advanced Functional Materials. 12(2). 110–116. 208 indexed citations

Broeck, Katleen Van den, Thierry Verbiest, Jean‐Marie Degryse, et al.. (2001). High glass transition chromophore functionalised polyimides for second-order nonlinear optical applications. Polymer. 42(8). 3315–3322. 38 indexed citations

Clays, Koen & A. Persoons. (2000). Application of hyper-Rayleigh scattering for the experimental determination of molecular structure in monomers and polymers. Journal of Molecular Structure. 521(1-3). 303–313. 9 indexed citations

Elshocht, Sven Van, Thierry Verbiest, Gaetan de Schaetzen, et al.. (2000). Beneficial effect of heating on the morphology and second-order nonlinear optical efficiency of anisotropic thin films. Chemical Physics Letters. 323(3-4). 340–344. 22 indexed citations

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Beljonne, David, Zhigang Shuai, J. L. Brédas, et al.. (1998). Electro-optic response of chiral helicenes in isotropic media. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 108(4). 1301–1304. 35 indexed citations

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Samyn, Celest, et al.. (1998). Synthetic approach for the incorporation of second-order nonlinear optical chromophores containing heteroatomics into methacrylate copolymers. European Polymer Journal. 34(8). 1069–1072. 3 indexed citations

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Broeck, Katleen Van den, et al.. (1998). Synthetic approach for the incorporation of second-order nonlinear optical chromophores containing furan groups, into methacrylate copolymers. European Polymer Journal. 34(10). 1453–1456. 7 indexed citations

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Persoons, A., et al.. (1997). Geometric Structure and Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Substituted Calix[4]arene Molecules: A Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 101(22). 4142–4148. 36 indexed citations

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Teerenstra, M. N., et al.. (1996). Preparation of Langmuir−Blodgett Mono- and Multilayers of Copolymers of Isocyanides with NLO-Active Side Chains. Effect of a Spacer Group between the NLO Chromophore and the Polymer Backbone. Macromolecules. 29(14). 4871–4875. 16 indexed citations

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Dehu, C., Eric Hendrickx, Koen Clays, A. Persoons, & Jean‐Luc Brédas. (1995). Theoretical and experimental investigation of the second-order nonlinear optical properties of retinal and derivatives. Synthetic Metals. 71(1-3). 1697–1698. 5 indexed citations

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Kang, Soonchul, et al.. (1995). The diazonium group: an electron acceptor for large molecular hyperpolarizabilities. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 635–635. 17 indexed citations

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Brédas, J. L., et al.. (1994). Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response in Organic Materials: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects. Chemical Reviews. 94(1). 243–278. 1199 indexed citations breakdown →

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Persoons, A., et al.. (1993). Polymers containing nonlinear optical groups in the main chain. Second harmonic generation in corona poled thin films. European Polymer Journal. 29(7). 981–986. 9 indexed citations

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Verbiest, Thierry, Fabienne Meyers, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Koen Clays, & A. Persoons. (1993). Determination of the hyperpolarizability of an octopolar molecular ion by hyper-Rayleigh scattering. Optics Letters. 18(7). 525–525. 74 indexed citations

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Clays, Koen, Eric Hendrickx, Thierry Verbiest, et al.. (1993). Nonlinear Optical Properties of Proteins Measured by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering in Solution. Science. 262(5138). 1419–1422. 132 indexed citations

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