Albert Polman

49.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
411 papers, 39.5k citations indexed

About

Albert Polman is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Albert Polman has authored 411 papers receiving a total of 39.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 254 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 183 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 173 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Albert Polman's work include Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (120 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (105 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (96 papers). Albert Polman is often cited by papers focused on Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (120 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (105 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (96 papers). Albert Polman collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Albert Polman's co-authors include Harry A. Atwater, Kylie Catchpole, Pierpaolo Spinelli, Jorik van de Groep, A. Femius Koenderink, Marc A. Verschuuren, Erik C. Garnett, Pieter G. Kik, Bruno Ehrler and W.C. Sinke and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Albert Polman

404 papers receiving 38.4k citations

Hit Papers

Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices 1997 2026 2006 2016 2010 2016 2008 1997 2006 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices
    2010 6.8k citations Harry A. Atwater, Albert Polman profile →
  2. Photovoltaic materials: Present efficiencies and future challenges
    2016 1.8k citations Albert Polman, Mark W. Knight et al. profile →
  3. Plasmonic solar cells
    2008 1.2k citations Albert Polman et al. Optics Express profile →
  4. Erbium implanted thin film photonic materials
    1997 966 citations Albert Polman profile →
  5. Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength-scale localization
    2006 934 citations Jennifer A. Dionne, Luke A. Sweatlock et al. Physical Review B profile →
  6. Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength surface Mie resonators
    2012 699 citations Pierpaolo Spinelli, Marc A. Verschuuren et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells
    2008 695 citations Albert Polman et al. profile →
  8. Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics
    2012 691 citations Albert Polman, Harry A. Atwater profile →
  9. Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells
    2010 523 citations Marc A. Verschuuren, Ewold Verhagen et al. Optics Express profile →
  10. Transparent Conducting Silver Nanowire Networks
    2012 473 citations Pierpaolo Spinelli, Albert Polman et al. Nano Letters profile →
  11. Nanophotonics: Shrinking light-based technology
    2015 450 citations A. Femius Koenderink, Andrea Alù et al. profile →
  12. Experimental realization of an epsilon-near-zero metamaterial at visible wavelengths
    2013 391 citations Albert Polman et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  13. Nonlocal Metasurfaces for Optical Signal Processing
    2018 309 citations Andrea Cordaro, Albert Polman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Albert Polman Netherlands 92 21.4k 19.4k 16.8k 11.5k 10.7k 411 39.5k
U. Gösele Germany 99 22.4k 1.0× 15.9k 0.8× 26.7k 1.6× 5.2k 0.5× 12.1k 1.1× 647 43.2k
Alex Zettl United States 118 19.6k 0.9× 16.2k 0.8× 50.4k 3.0× 9.9k 0.9× 17.9k 1.7× 608 69.2k
Harry A. Atwater United States 108 27.6k 1.3× 29.4k 1.5× 20.3k 1.2× 19.9k 1.7× 14.4k 1.3× 759 58.0k
Thomas W. Ebbesen France 98 18.3k 0.9× 38.3k 2.0× 20.2k 1.2× 17.3k 1.5× 25.2k 2.3× 318 65.0k
Mark L. Brongersma United States 90 16.5k 0.8× 22.9k 1.2× 11.5k 0.7× 17.3k 1.5× 11.9k 1.1× 332 38.9k
Phaedon Avouris United States 122 30.3k 1.4× 23.6k 1.2× 48.7k 2.9× 7.9k 0.7× 24.7k 2.3× 439 71.2k
Steven M. George United States 96 27.8k 1.3× 4.7k 0.2× 21.1k 1.3× 5.4k 0.5× 4.2k 0.4× 514 37.3k
G. Dresselhaus United States 105 18.3k 0.9× 12.9k 0.7× 51.5k 3.1× 8.0k 0.7× 16.7k 1.6× 427 67.4k
Jannik C. Meyer Austria 57 10.9k 0.5× 8.2k 0.4× 24.7k 1.5× 4.4k 0.4× 4.5k 0.4× 163 30.8k
Sokrates T. Pantelides United States 94 20.0k 0.9× 3.3k 0.2× 21.6k 1.3× 5.8k 0.5× 7.6k 0.7× 663 35.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Polman, Albert, et al.. (2024). Toward Optimum Coupling between Free Electrons and Confined Optical Modes. ACS Nano. 18(22). 14255–14275. 12 indexed citations
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Polman, Albert, et al.. (2024). Angular Dispersion of Free-Electron-Light Coupling in an Optical Fiber-Integrated Metagrating. ACS Photonics. 11(3). 1125–1136. 2 indexed citations
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Tagliabue, Giulia, Harry A. Atwater, Albert Polman, & Emiliano Cortés. (2024). Photonic solutions help fight climate crisis. Nature Photonics. 18(9). 879–882. 5 indexed citations
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Cordaro, Andrea, Ralph Müller, Stefan W. Tabernig, et al.. (2023). Nanopatterned Back-Reflector with Engineered Near-Field/Far-Field Light Scattering for Enhanced Light Trapping in Silicon-Based Multijunction Solar Cells. ACS Photonics. 10(11). 4061–4070. 9 indexed citations
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Cordaro, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Nanopatterned SiNx Broadband Antireflection Coating for Planar Silicon Solar Cells. physica status solidi (a). 220(5). 3 indexed citations
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Tabernig, Stefan W., Anastasia Soeriyadi, Udo Römer, et al.. (2022). Avoiding Shading Losses in Concentrator Photovoltaics Using a Soft-Imprinted Cloaking Geometry. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 12(5). 1116–1127. 5 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, et al.. (2022). Cylindrical Metalens for Generation and Focusing of Free-Electron Radiation. Nano Letters. 22(14). 5641–5650. 26 indexed citations
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Mauser, Kelly W., B. Damilano, Pierre‐Marie Coulon, et al.. (2021). Employing Cathodoluminescence for Nanothermometry and Thermal Transport Measurements in Semiconductor Nanowires. ACS Nano. 15(7). 11385–11395. 23 indexed citations
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Mauser, Kelly W., et al.. (2021). Photon Statistics of Incoherent Cathodoluminescence with Continuous and Pulsed Electron Beams. AMOLF Institutional Repository (AMOLF). 17 indexed citations
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Cordaro, Andrea, et al.. (2020). Resonant Metagratings for Spectral and Angular Control of Light for Colored Rooftop Photovoltaics. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(4). 3150–3156. 21 indexed citations
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Ra’di, Younes, et al.. (2019). Combined Metagratings for Efficient Broad-Angle Scattering Metasurface. ACS Photonics. 6(4). 1010–1017. 47 indexed citations
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Knight, Mark W., et al.. (2019). Nanoscale spatial limitations of large-area substrate conformal imprint lithography. Nanotechnology. 30(34). 345301–345301. 32 indexed citations
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Belabbes, Abderrezak, Marcel A. Verheijen, Sophie Meuret, et al.. (2018). Efficient Green Emission from Wurtzite AlxIn1–xP Nanowires. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3543–3549. 16 indexed citations
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Coenen, Toon, Benjamin J. M. Brenny, Ernst Jan R. Vesseur, & Albert Polman. (2015). Cathodoluminescence microscopy: Optical imaging and spectroscopy with deep-subwavelength resolution. MRS Bulletin. 40(4). 359–365. 36 indexed citations
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Coenen, Toon, Felipe Bernal Arango, A. Femius Koenderink, & Albert Polman. (2014). Directional emission from a single plasmonic scatterer. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3250–3250. 146 indexed citations
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Spinelli, Pierpaolo, Marc A. Verschuuren, & Albert Polman. (2012). Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength surface Mie resonators. Nature Communications. 3(1). 692–692. 699 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lű, Tao, et al.. (2009). On-chip green silica upconversion microlaser. Optics Letters. 34(4). 482–482. 47 indexed citations
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Dionne, Jennifer A., Ewold Verhagen, Albert Polman, & Harry A. Atwater. (2008). Are negative index materials achievable with surface plasmon waveguides? A case study of three plasmonic geometries. Optics Express. 16(23). 19001–19001. 83 indexed citations
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Sweatlock, Luke A., Stefan A. Maier, Harry A. Atwater, J. Penninkhof, & Albert Polman. (2005). Highly confined electromagnetic fields in arrays of strongly coupled Ag nanoparticles. Physical Review B. 71(23). 215 indexed citations
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Coffa, S., Albert Polman, & Robert N. Schwartz. (1996). Rare earth doped semiconductors II : symposium held April 8-10, 1996, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.. 5 indexed citations

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