Boubacar Kanté

6.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
92 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Boubacar Kanté is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boubacar Kanté has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 43 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boubacar Kanté's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (43 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (27 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (27 papers). Boubacar Kanté is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (43 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (27 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (27 papers). Boubacar Kanté collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Boubacar Kanté's co-authors include Babak Bahari, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Thomas Lepetit, Ashok Kodigala, Patrick Couvreur, Qing Gu, Marie Cecilie Paasche Roland, Abdoulaye Ndao, P Speiser and Felipe Vallini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Boubacar Kanté

89 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

  1. Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum
    2017 1.0k citations Ashok Kodigala, Thomas Lepetit et al. Nature profile →
  2. Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries
    2017 568 citations Babak Bahari, Felipe Vallini et al. Science profile →
  3. Polycyanoacrylate nanocapsules as potential lysosomotropic carriers: preparation, morphological and sorptive properties
    1979 324 citations Patrick Couvreur, Boubacar Kanté et al. profile →
  4. Symmetry-breaking-induced plasmonic exceptional points and nanoscale sensing
    2020 252 citations Jun‐Hee Park, Li‐Yi Hsu et al. profile →
  5. Plasmonic topological metasurface by encircling an exceptional point
    2021 238 citations Qinghua Song, Mutasem Odeh et al. Science profile →

Peers

Boubacar Kanté
Miha Ravnik Slovenia
Katsuhiko Miyamoto Japan
Yukio Hasegawa Japan
Wentao Lu United States
Jie Gao United States
Qinghua Song China
S. S. A. Obayya Egypt
Thomas M. Fischer Germany
Andrew Berger United States
Jean Baudry France
Miha Ravnik Slovenia
Boubacar Kanté
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Countries citing papers authored by Boubacar Kanté

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boubacar Kanté

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boubacar Kanté

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Boubacar Kanté. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Boubacar Kanté based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Boubacar Kanté. Boubacar Kanté is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ivanov, Vsevolod, Debanjan Polley, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). Programmable quantum emitter formation in silicon. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4497–4497. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Zijin, Po‐Sheng Huang, Yu‐Tsung Lin, et al.. (2024). Creating pairs of exceptional points for arbitrary polarization control: asymmetric vectorial wavefront modulation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 232–232. 49 indexed citations
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Qarony, Wayesh, et al.. (2024). Interpretable inverse-designed cavity for nonlinear photon pair generation on-chip. 1. 3–3. 1 indexed citations
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Kanté, Boubacar. (2024). BerkSEL: A scale-invariant laser beyond the Schawlow-Townes two-mirror strategy. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2047–2047. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, Vsevolod Ivanov, Qing Ji, et al.. (2023). Quantum Emitter Formation Dynamics and Probing of Radiation-Induced Atomic Disorder in Silicon. Physical Review Applied. 20(1). 9 indexed citations
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Qarony, Wayesh, Walid Redjem, Scott Dhuey, et al.. (2023). Interpretable inverse-designed cavity for on-chip nonlinear photon pair generation. Optica. 10(11). 1529–1529. 6 indexed citations
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Redjem, Walid, et al.. (2023). Disordered topological graphs enhancing nonlinear phenomena. Science Advances. 9(14). eadf9330–eadf9330. 6 indexed citations
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Redjem, Walid, Wayesh Qarony, Vsevolod Ivanov, et al.. (2023). All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3321–3321. 50 indexed citations
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Redjem, Walid, et al.. (2022). Scalable single-mode surface-emitting laser via open-Dirac singularities. Nature. 608(7924). 692–698. 91 indexed citations
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Song, Qinghua, Mutasem Odeh, J. Zúñiga‐Pérez, Boubacar Kanté, & Patrice Genevet. (2021). Plasmonic topological metasurface by encircling an exceptional point. Science. 373(6559). 1133–1137. 238 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ndao, Abdoulaye, Li‐Yi Hsu, Jeong-Ho Ha, et al.. (2020). Octave bandwidth photonic fishnet-achromatic-metalens. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3205–3205. 154 indexed citations
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Pan, Si Hui, Felipe Vallini, Antti Tukiainen, et al.. (2019). Lasing action in low-resistance nanolasers based on tunnel junctions. Optics Letters. 44(15). 3669–3669. 10 indexed citations
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Bahari, Babak, Felipe Vallini, Thomas Lepetit, et al.. (2018). Integrated and Steerable Vortex Lasers using Bound States in Continuum. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Kodigala, Ashok, Thomas Lepetit, Qing Gu, et al.. (2017). Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum. Nature. 541(7636). 196–199. 1013 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smalley, Joseph S. T., Felipe Vallini, Sergio Montoya, et al.. (2017). Luminescent hyperbolic metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13793–13793. 55 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Kevin, Haim Suchowski, Junsuk Rho, et al.. (2015). Predicting nonlinear properties of metamaterials from the linear response. Nature Materials. 14(4). 379–383. 222 indexed citations
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Yang, Sui, Xingjie Ni, Xiaobo Yin, et al.. (2014). Feedback-driven self-assembly of symmetry-breaking optical metamaterials in solution. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(12). 1002–1006. 76 indexed citations
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Kanté, Boubacar, A. de Lustrac, Jean–Michel Lourtioz, & Shah Nawaz Burokur. (2008). Infrared cloaking based on the electric response of split ring resonators. Optics Express. 16(12). 9191–9191. 45 indexed citations
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Couvreur, Patrick, et al.. (1978). [Perspective on the use of microdisperse forms as intracellular vehicles].. PubMed. 53(12). 341–7. 8 indexed citations

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