Alexey Y. Nikitin

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
112 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Alexey Y. Nikitin is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexey Y. Nikitin has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 58 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 40 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexey Y. Nikitin's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (82 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (40 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (29 papers). Alexey Y. Nikitin is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (82 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (40 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (29 papers). Alexey Y. Nikitin collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Ukraine and United States. Alexey Y. Nikitin's co-authors include L. Martı́n-Moreno, F. J. Garcı́a-Vidal, Rainer Hillenbrand, F. Guinea, Pablo Alonso‐González, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova, Saül Vélez, Peining Li and Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alexey Y. Nikitin

102 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal

2018 588 citations Weiliang Ma, Pablo Alonso‐González et al. Nature profile →
Edge and waveguide terahertz surface plasmon modes in graphene microribbons

2011 425 citations Alexey Y. Nikitin, F. Guinea et al. Physical Review B profile →
Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials

2018 376 citations Peining Li, Irene Dolado et al. Science profile →
Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit

2018 270 citations Marta Autore, Peining Li et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexey Y. Nikitin Spain	42	4.8k	3.4k	2.7k	2.1k	2.0k	112	6.9k
Pablo Alonso‐González Spain	42	5.7k 1.2×	3.6k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	86	7.8k
Alex Krasnok United States	40	3.2k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	586 0.3×	124	5.9k
Long Ju United States	23	4.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	3.2k 1.5×	582 0.3×	40	8.3k
Ivan Iorsh Russia	33	3.1k 0.6×	4.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	654 0.3×	168	6.1k
Viktor A. Podolskiy United States	42	4.8k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	5.2k 1.9×	1.9k 0.9×	558 0.3×	143	7.7k
Maiken H. Mikkelsen United States	28	3.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	294 0.1×	54	5.4k
O. J. Glembocki United States	39	2.5k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	928 0.5×	175	5.6k
Vinod M. Menon United States	40	2.1k 0.4×	3.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	636 0.3×	151	6.0k
S. G. Tikhodeev Russia	35	2.3k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	442 0.2×	176	4.6k
Kevin F. MacDonald United Kingdom	35	2.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	212 0.1×	134	4.9k

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Воронин, К. В., Íker León, Rainer Hillenbrand, & Alexey Y. Nikitin. (2025). Quantitative Analytical Spheroid Model for Scattering‐Type Scanning Near‐Field Optical Spectroscopy. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(31).

Duan, Jiahua, Christian Lanza, Stefan Partel, et al.. (2025). Canalization-based super-resolution imaging using an individual van der Waals thin layer. Science Advances. 11(7). eads0569–eads0569. 6 indexed citations

Alonso‐González, Pablo, Andrei Bylinkin, Ana I. F. Tresguerres‐Mata, et al.. (2025). High-intensity wave vortices around subwavelength holes: From ocean tides to nanooptics. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 1(3). 100060–100060.

Slipchenko, T. M., et al.. (2025). Tunable Hyperbolic Landau-Level Polaritons in Charge-Neutral Graphene Nanoribbon Metasurfaces. ACS Photonics. 12(9). 5264–5270.

Tresguerres‐Mata, Ana I. F., Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez, Joseph R. Matson, et al.. (2024). Observation of naturally canalized phonon polaritons in LiV2O5 thin layers. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2696–2696. 13 indexed citations

Álvarez‐Pérez, Gonzalo, Thales V. A. G. de Oliveira, Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez, et al.. (2023). Terahertz Twistoptics–Engineering Canalized Phonon Polaritons. ACS Nano. 17(19). 19313–19322. 9 indexed citations

Calandrini, Eugenio, К. В. Воронин, Osman Balcı, et al.. (2023). Near‐ and Far‐Field Observation of Phonon Polaritons in Wafer‐Scale Multilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Advanced Materials. 35(44). e2302045–e2302045. 4 indexed citations

Tresguerres‐Mata, Ana I. F., Roman V. Kirtaev, К. В. Воронин, et al.. (2023). Twist-tunable polaritonic nanoresonators in a van der Waals crystal. npj 2D Materials and Applications. 7(1). 31–31. 11 indexed citations

Álvarez‐Pérez, Gonzalo, Lukas Wehmeier, J. Michael Klopf, et al.. (2022). Germanium Monosulfide as a Natural Platform for Highly Anisotropic THz Polaritons. ACS Nano. 16(12). 20174–20185. 18 indexed citations

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Álvarez‐Pérez, Gonzalo, Jiahua Duan, Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez, et al.. (2022). Negative reflection of nanoscale-confined polaritons in a low-loss natural medium. Science Advances. 8(29). eabp8486–eabp8486. 41 indexed citations

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Volkov, Valentyn S., et al.. (2022). Twisted Polaritonic Crystals in Thin van der Waals Slabs. Laser & Photonics Review. 16(9). 8 indexed citations

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Ermolaev, Georgy A., Yury V. Stebunov, Andrey A. Vyshnevyy, et al.. (2020). Broadband optical properties of monolayer and bulk MoS2. npj 2D Materials and Applications. 4(1). 164 indexed citations

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Duan, Jiahua, Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Álvarez‐Pérez, et al.. (2020). Twisted Nano-Optics: Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Twisted Phonon Polaritonic Slabs. Nano Letters. 20(7). 5323–5329. 165 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Thales V. A. G. de, Gonzalo Álvarez‐Pérez, Lukas Wehmeier, et al.. (2020). Nanoscale‐Confined Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Crystal. Advanced Materials. 33(2). e2005777–e2005777. 70 indexed citations

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Taboada‐Gutiérrez, Javier, Gonzalo Álvarez‐Pérez, Jiahua Duan, et al.. (2020). Broad spectral tuning of ultra-low-loss polaritons in a van der Waals crystal by intercalation. Nature Materials. 19(9). 964–968. 172 indexed citations

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Ma, Weiliang, Pablo Alonso‐González, Shaojuan Li, et al.. (2018). In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal. Nature. 562(7728). 557–562. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Peining, Irene Dolado, Francisco Javier Alfaro‐Mozaz, et al.. (2018). Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials. Science. 359(6378). 892–896. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yoxall, Edward, Martin Schnell, Alexey Y. Nikitin, et al.. (2015). Direct observation of ultraslow hyperbolic polariton propagation with negative phase velocity. Nature Photonics. 9(10). 674–678. 263 indexed citations

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Kuzmenko, Alexey B., M. L. Nesterov, Alexey Y. Nikitin, et al.. (2014). Strong Plasmon Reflection at Nanometer-Size Gaps in Monolayer Graphene on SiC. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 4 indexed citations

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Nikitin, Alexey Y., F. Guinea, F. J. Garcı́a-Vidal, & L. Martı́n-Moreno. (2011). Edge and waveguide terahertz surface plasmon modes in graphene microribbons. Physical Review B. 84(16). 425 indexed citations breakdown →

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