Cefe López

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
188 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Cefe López is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Cefe López has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 96 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 55 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Cefe López's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (121 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (71 papers) and Random lasers and scattering media (41 papers). Cefe López is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (121 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (71 papers) and Random lasers and scattering media (41 papers). Cefe López collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United Kingdom. Cefe López's co-authors include Álvaro Blanco, F. Meseguer, Hernán Míguez, Marta Ibisate, Juan F. Galisteo‐López, Riccardo Sapienza, P. D. García, A. Mifsud, Florencio García‐Santamaría and L. Vázquez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Cefe López

184 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Large-scale synthesis of a silicon photonic crystal with a complete three-dimensional bandgap near 1.5 micrometres

2000 1.2k citations Álvaro Blanco, Cefe López et al. profile →
Materials Aspects of Photonic Crystals

2003 796 citations Cefe López Advanced Materials profile →
Self‐Assembled Photonic Structures

2010 564 citations Juan F. Galisteo‐López, Riccardo Sapienza et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cefe López Spain	48	7.1k	4.1k	3.2k	2.9k	1.4k	188	10.2k
Willem L. Vos Netherlands	47	6.1k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	965 0.7×	185	9.9k
Álvaro Blanco Spain	30	4.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	808 0.6×	87	5.8k
Jian Zi China	51	5.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	4.2k 1.5×	3.2k 2.3×	253	9.5k
K. M. Ho United States	51	6.3k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	5.1k 1.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	141	11.4k
Georg von Freymann Germany	44	5.3k 0.7×	3.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	4.9k 1.7×	3.2k 2.3×	216	10.7k
F. Meseguer Spain	38	4.2k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	3.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	137	7.5k
Pierre R. Villeneuve United States	30	10.5k 1.5×	8.9k 2.2×	967 0.3×	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	50	11.8k
R. Biswas United States	45	4.8k 0.7×	4.7k 1.2×	2.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	825 0.6×	189	8.2k
Riccardo Sapienza United Kingdom	35	2.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	889 0.6×	98	4.4k
Zhi‐Yuan Li China	43	3.4k 0.5×	2.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	3.6k 1.3×	3.8k 2.8×	265	9.5k

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López, Cefe, et al.. (2025). Mie scattering based measurements of the optical size of single spherical dielectric microparticles. APL Photonics. 10(7).

Tartaj, Pedro, et al.. (2024). Controlling the spectral persistence of a random laser. Optica. 11(7). 919–919.

Consoli, A., P. D. García, & Cefe López. (2023). Tuning the emission properties of electrically pumped semiconductor random lasers via controlled pulsed laser ablation. Optics Express. 31(25). 42439–42439. 7 indexed citations

Olmos‐Trigo, Jorge, Rubén Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, et al.. (2023). Characterizing the Backscattered Spectrum of Mie Spheres. Laser & Photonics Review. 18(2). 4 indexed citations

Consoli, A., Niccolò Caselli, & Cefe López. (2023). Networks of random lasers: current perspective and future challenges [Invited]. Optical Materials Express. 13(4). 1060–1060. 8 indexed citations

Pariente, Jose Ángel, Álvaro Blanco, Antonio García‐Martín, et al.. (2023). Fano‐Like Resonance from Disorder Correlation in Vacancy‐Doped Photonic Crystals. Small. 19(40). e2302355–e2302355. 3 indexed citations

Consoli, A., Niccolò Caselli, & Cefe López. (2022). Electrically driven random lasing from a modified Fabry–Pérot laser diode. Nature Photonics. 16(3). 219–225. 48 indexed citations

Caselli, Niccolò, et al.. (2021). Networks of mutually coupled random lasers. Optica. 8(2). 193–193. 24 indexed citations

Consoli, A., et al.. (2019). Random lasing emission tailored by femtosecond and picosecond pulsed polymer ablation. Optics Letters. 44(3). 518–518. 20 indexed citations

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Galisteo‐López, Juan F., Cefe López, Facundo C. Herrera, et al.. (2018). Unexpected Optical Blue Shift in Large Colloidal Quantum Dots by Anionic Migration and Exchange. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(11). 3124–3130. 6 indexed citations

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Jiménez‐Villar, Ernesto, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Cefe López, et al.. (2017). Random Lasing at Localization Transition in a Colloidal Suspension (TiO₂@Silica). ACS Omega. 2(6). 2415–2421. 27 indexed citations

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Blanco, Álvaro, et al.. (2016). Carbon Spheres: Seeded Synthesis of Monodisperse Core–Shell and Hollow Carbon Spheres (Small 32/2016). Small. 12(32). 4301–4301. 1 indexed citations

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Gallego‐Gómez, Francisco, et al.. (2016). Colloidal crystals and water: Perspectives on liquid–solid nanoscale phenomena in wet particulate media. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 234. 142–160. 14 indexed citations

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Gallego‐Gómez, Francisco, Álvaro Blanco, & Cefe López. (2015). Colloidal Crystals: Exploration and Exploitation of Water in Colloidal Crystals (Adv. Mater. 17/2015). Advanced Materials. 27(17). 2677–2677.

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García, P. D. & Cefe López. (2013). From Bloch to random lasing in ZnO self-assembled nanostructures. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 1(44). 7357–7357. 7 indexed citations

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Leonetti, Marco, Claudio Conti, & Cefe López. (2012). Random laser tailored by directional stimulated emission. Physical Review A. 85(4). 33 indexed citations

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Gallego‐Gómez, Francisco, et al.. (2011). Water‐Dependent Photonic Bandgap in Silica Artificial Opals. Small. 7(13). 1838–1845. 30 indexed citations

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López, Cefe, et al.. (2010). Optical anisotropy of synthetic opals. Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications. 9(1). 82–90. 4 indexed citations

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López, Cefe. (2008). A little disorder is just right. Nature Physics. 4(10). 755–756. 6 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Riccardo, P. D. García, Jacopo Bertolotti, et al.. (2007). Observation of Resonant Behavior in the Energy Velocity of Diffused Light. Physical Review Letters. 99(23). 233902–233902. 72 indexed citations

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