David Pile

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

David Pile is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Pile has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 45 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David Pile's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Optical Coatings and Gratings (21 papers). David Pile is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Optical Coatings and Gratings (21 papers). David Pile collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Japan. David Pile's co-authors include Dmitri K. Gramotnev, Xiang Zhang, Rupert F. Oulton, Dentcho A. Genov, Volker J. Sorger, Guy Bartal, K. C. Vernon, Masanobu Haraguchi, M. Fukui and Takeshi Okamoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

David Pile

149 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A hybrid plasmonic waveguide for subwavelength confinement and long-range propagation

2008 1.6k citations David Pile, Xiang Zhang et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Pile Australia	21	3.4k	2.7k	1.8k	1.1k	948	162	4.0k
Christian Seassal France	38	1.2k 0.4×	3.8k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	273 0.3×	867 0.9×	188	4.5k
Yoshimasa Sugimoto Japan	35	1.3k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	3.0k 1.7×	529 0.5×	689 0.7×	284	4.7k
Jean-Luc Pélouard France	34	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	751 0.8×	152	3.6k
Stéphane Collin France	33	1.8k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	839 0.8×	782 0.8×	145	3.7k
Toon Coenen Netherlands	27	1.4k 0.4×	575 0.2×	827 0.5×	993 0.9×	204 0.2×	47	2.0k
Xavier Letartre France	31	732 0.2×	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.3×	198 0.2×	730 0.8×	187	3.2k
Gérard Colas des Francs France	31	2.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	336 0.4×	133	3.1k
Jan Renger Spain	27	1.8k 0.5×	915 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	906 0.9×	209 0.2×	54	2.5k
Vasily V. Temnov Germany	26	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	837 0.8×	104 0.1×	76	2.6k
Mikhail V. Rybin Russia	24	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	2.6k 1.4×	2.0k 1.9×	268 0.3×	124	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by David Pile

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Pile

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Pile

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pile, David. (2024). Earth’s wobble probed by 16-m2 underground laser. Nature Photonics. 18(5). 397–399.

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Pile, David. (2024). Fast free-electron laser targets the future. Nature Photonics. 18(7). 640–642. 3 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2024). Tracking tiny proteins sans fluorescence. Nature Photonics. 18(1). 9–9. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2023). Big lasers with a mission. Nature Photonics. 17(11). 918–919.

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Pile, David. (2023). Masses of metalenses. Nature Photonics. 17(6). 467–467. 2 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2020). Megapixel single-photon camera. Nature Photonics. 14(10). 597–597. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2017). Slim semiconductor. Nature Photonics. 11(9). 532–532. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2016). Electronic–photonic chip. Nature Photonics. 10(3). 145–145. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2014). Single-photon nonlinearity. Nature Photonics. 8(3). 168–168. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2012). Plasmonic enhancement. Nature Photonics. 7(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2012). Light controls currents. Nature Photonics. 6(2). 71–71. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2011). Mode-locking X-rays. Nature Photonics. 5(9). 513–513. 1 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2010). Optics and chemistry meet. Nature Photonics. 4(10). 672–673. 1 indexed citations

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Choi, Hyeunseok, David Pile, Sunghyun Nam, Guy Bartal, & Xiang Zhang. (2009). Compressing surface plasmons for nano-scale optical focusing. Optics Express. 17(9). 7519–7519. 91 indexed citations

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Pile, David & Dmitri K. Gramotnev. (2006). Adiabatic and nonadiabatic nanofocusing of plasmons by tapered gap plasmon waveguides. Applied Physics Letters. 89(4). 130 indexed citations

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Pile, David. (2005). Gap modes of one-dimensional photonic crystal surface waves. Applied Optics. 44(20). 4398–4398. 3 indexed citations

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Pile, David & Dmitri K. Gramotnev. (2005). Plasmonic subwavelength waveguides: next to zero losses at sharp bends. Optics Letters. 30(10). 1186–1186. 121 indexed citations

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Pile, David & Dmitri K. Gramotnev. (2004). Channel plasmon–polariton in a triangular groove on a metal surface. Optics Letters. 29(10). 1069–1069. 246 indexed citations

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Gramotnev, Dmitri K. & David Pile. (1999). Double-resonant extremely asymmetrical scattering of electromagnetic waves in non-uniform periodic arrays. Physics Letters A. 253(5-6). 309–316. 10 indexed citations

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Gramotnev, Dmitri K. & David Pile. (1999). Extremely asymmetrical scattering of optical waves in nonuniform periodic Bragg arrays. Applied Optics. 38(12). 2440–2440. 9 indexed citations

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