Daniel Steil

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Daniel Steil is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Steil has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Daniel Steil's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (18 papers), Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications (9 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (7 papers). Daniel Steil is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (18 papers), Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications (9 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (7 papers). Daniel Steil collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United States. Daniel Steil's co-authors include Martin Aeschlimann, Mirko Cinchetti, Sabine Alebrand, M. Hehn, M. Gottwald, S. Mangin, Eric E. Fullerton, T. Roth, Stefan Mathias and Y. Fainman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Steil

36 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent m... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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. Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching
    2014 476 citations S. Mangin, M. Gottwald 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
Daniel Steil Germany 16 1.5k 806 621 470 262 36 1.8k
Thomas Ostler United Kingdom 18 1.4k 0.9× 662 0.8× 619 1.0× 361 0.8× 343 1.3× 32 1.5k
K. Vahaplar Netherlands 5 1.2k 0.8× 668 0.8× 486 0.8× 270 0.6× 267 1.0× 6 1.4k
Karel Carva Czechia 23 2.0k 1.3× 820 1.0× 698 1.1× 615 1.3× 486 1.9× 83 2.4k
Jakob Walowski Germany 12 1.2k 0.8× 476 0.6× 646 1.0× 344 0.7× 284 1.1× 25 1.5k
B. Koopmans Netherlands 14 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 598 1.0× 356 0.8× 404 1.5× 26 1.9k
Daniel Steiauf Germany 19 1.3k 0.9× 725 0.9× 837 1.3× 808 1.7× 481 1.8× 32 2.0k
Roman Adam Germany 18 1.4k 0.9× 701 0.9× 401 0.6× 308 0.7× 351 1.3× 99 1.8k
T. Roth Germany 11 1.3k 0.8× 460 0.6× 466 0.8× 262 0.6× 268 1.0× 12 1.4k
A. M. Kalashnikova Russia 22 1.1k 0.8× 885 1.1× 892 1.4× 630 1.3× 421 1.6× 67 1.9k
Joseph Barker United Kingdom 21 2.2k 1.5× 851 1.1× 970 1.6× 558 1.2× 934 3.6× 48 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Steil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Steil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daniel Steil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daniel Steil 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 Daniel Steil. Daniel Steil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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AlMutairi, AbdulAziz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons. Nature Photonics. 19(2). 187–194. 2 indexed citations
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Schüler, Michael, David R. Schmitt, K. Pierz, et al.. (2025). Observation of Floquet states in graphene. Nature Physics. 21(7). 1093–1099. 17 indexed citations
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AlMutairi, AbdulAziz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2024). Probing electron-hole Coulomb correlations in the exciton landscape of a twisted semiconductor heterostructure. Science Advances. 10(6). eadi1323–eadi1323. 15 indexed citations
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Dewhurst, J. K., Marcel Reutzel, Daniel Steil, et al.. (2024). Unraveling femtosecond spin and charge dynamics with extreme ultraviolet transverse MOKE spectroscopy. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 11 indexed citations
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Jansen, G. S. Matthijs, et al.. (2024). Verification of ultrafast spin transfer effects in iron-nickel alloys. Communications Physics. 7(1). 9 indexed citations
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Koraltan, Sabri, Timo Torsten Schmidt, Dieter Suess, et al.. (2024). All-Optical Control of Bubble and Skyrmion Breathing. Physical Review Letters. 133(15). 156701–156701. 3 indexed citations
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Schmitt, David R., Gabriele D’Avino, Xavier Blase, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the multiorbital contributions of excitons by photoemission exciton tomography. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1804–1804. 11 indexed citations
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Koraltan, Sabri, Timo Torsten Schmidt, Marcel Möller, et al.. (2024). Laser‐Induced Real‐Space Topology Control of Spin Wave Resonances. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(30). 5 indexed citations
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Mathias, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Energy relaxation in (La0.6Pr0.4)0.7Ca0.3MnO3 films across the metal-insulator transition. Physical review. B.. 107(8). 4 indexed citations
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Werner, Paul, AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast dynamics of bright and dark excitons in monolayer WSe2 and heterobilayer WSe2/MoS2. 2D Materials. 10(3). 35039–35039. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Andi, Marcel Reutzel, Zehua Wang, et al.. (2022). Multidimensional multiphoton momentum microscopy of the anisotropic Ag(110) surface. Physical review. B.. 105(7). 6 indexed citations
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Pierz, K., H. W. Schumacher, Davood Momeni, et al.. (2022). Far-from-Equilibrium Electron–Phonon Interactions in Optically Excited Graphene. Nano Letters. 22(12). 4897–4904. 13 indexed citations
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Schmitt, David P., AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2022). Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time. Nature. 608(7923). 499–503. 6 indexed citations
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Meyer, Tobias, Hendrik Meer, J. Hoffmann, et al.. (2021). Orbital-order phase transition in Pr1−xCaxMnO3 probed by photovoltaics. Physical review. B.. 103(23). 10 indexed citations
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Mahn, C., Sabine Steil, V. Moshnyaga, et al.. (2021). Ultrafast element-resolved magneto-optics using a fiber-laser-driven extreme ultraviolet light source. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations
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Jansen, G. S. Matthijs, David R. Schmitt, Daniel Steil, et al.. (2020). Efficient orbital imaging based on ultrafast momentum microscopy and sparsity-driven phase retrieval. New Journal of Physics. 22(6). 63012–63012. 21 indexed citations
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Reutzel, Marcel, David R. Schmitt, G. S. Matthijs Jansen, et al.. (2020). Electromagnetic dressing of the electron energy spectrum of Au(111) at high momenta. Physical review. B.. 102(16). 25 indexed citations
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Dewhurst, J. K., Phoebe Tengdin, Hans T. Nembach, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in ferromagnetic alloys. Science Advances. 6(3). eaay8717–eaay8717. 99 indexed citations
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Alebrand, Sabine, M. Hehn, M. Gottwald, et al.. (2014). Subpicosecond magnetization dynamics in TbCo alloys. Physical Review B. 89(14). 51 indexed citations
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Alebrand, Sabine, Alexander Hassdenteufel, Daniel Steil, et al.. (2012). All‐optical magnetization switching using phase shaped ultrashort laser pulses. physica status solidi (a). 209(12). 2589–2595. 7 indexed citations

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