Eric Plum

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Eric Plum 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, Eric Plum has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 55 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Eric Plum's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (51 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (33 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (32 papers). Eric Plum is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (51 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (33 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (32 papers). Eric Plum collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and China. Eric Plum's co-authors include Nikolay I. Zheludev, V.A. Fedotov, Jun‐Yu Ou, Ranjan Singh, Din Ping Tsai, Y. Chen, Weili Zhang, Jianfa Zhang, Jianfeng Dong and Thomas Koschny and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Eric Plum

88 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2009 200 400 600
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. Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality
    2009 630 citations Eric Plum, V.A. Fedotov et al. profile →
  2. Metamaterials: Optical Activity without Chirality
    2009 484 citations Eric Plum, V.A. Fedotov 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
Eric Plum United Kingdom 41 5.3k 3.3k 2.6k 2.3k 2.0k 97 6.8k
Jiangfeng Zhou United States 31 6.3k 1.2× 3.2k 1.0× 2.8k 1.1× 3.4k 1.5× 1.9k 0.9× 70 7.7k
Xingjie Ni United States 24 5.5k 1.0× 3.2k 1.0× 2.6k 1.0× 3.0k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 65 7.4k
Uday K. Chettiar United States 24 4.8k 0.9× 2.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.9× 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 39 6.2k
Manuel Decker Germany 34 6.5k 1.2× 4.9k 1.5× 3.6k 1.4× 2.7k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 78 8.6k
Benfeng Bai China 30 4.1k 0.8× 2.6k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 104 5.8k
Dentcho A. Genov United States 25 5.0k 1.0× 5.4k 1.7× 3.4k 1.3× 1.5k 0.6× 2.9k 1.5× 56 7.9k
Robert C. Devlin United States 19 7.3k 1.4× 3.5k 1.1× 3.9k 1.5× 4.1k 1.7× 1.5k 0.8× 30 8.9k
David Robbins United Kingdom 19 6.2k 1.2× 2.2k 0.7× 2.7k 1.0× 4.7k 2.0× 2.7k 1.4× 36 8.5k
Yuan Hsing Fu Singapore 32 3.4k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 2.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 80 5.6k
V.A. Fedotov United Kingdom 42 8.4k 1.6× 6.2k 1.9× 4.5k 1.7× 3.4k 1.5× 2.9k 1.5× 119 10.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Plum, Eric, et al.. (2025). Localization of nanoscale objects with light singularities. Nanophotonics. 14(7). 915–920.
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Shen, Yijie, et al.. (2024). 2D Super‐Resolution Metrology Based on Superoscillatory Light. Advanced Science. 11(38). e2404607–e2404607. 3 indexed citations
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Shen, Yijie, et al.. (2024). 3D positional metrology of a virus-like nanoparticle with topologically structured light. Applied Physics Letters. 124(22). 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Qing-Wei, Xueqian Zhang, Quan Xu, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear Terahertz Generation: Chiral and Achiral Meta‐Atom Coupling. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(29). 21 indexed citations
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Lu, Yongchang, Xi Feng, Qing-Wei Wang, et al.. (2021). Integrated Terahertz Generator-Manipulators Using Epsilon-near-Zero-Hybrid Nonlinear Metasurfaces. Nano Letters. 21(18). 7699–7707. 60 indexed citations
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Liu, Tongjun, Jun‐Yu Ou, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2021). Visualization of Subatomic Movements in Nanostructures. Nano Letters. 21(18). 7746–7752. 3 indexed citations
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Nagasaki, Yusuke, Behrad Gholipour, Jun‐Yu Ou, et al.. (2018). Optical bistability in shape-memory nanowire metamaterial array. Applied Physics Letters. 113(2). 25 indexed citations
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Xomalis, Angelos, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Eric Plum, et al.. (2018). Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption. Nature Communications. 9(1). 182–182. 84 indexed citations
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Wang, Qiu, Xueqian Zhang, Eric Plum, et al.. (2017). Polarization and Frequency Multiplexed Terahertz Meta‐Holography. Advanced Optical Materials. 5(14). 60 indexed citations
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Plum, Eric, et al.. (2016). Two-dimensional control of light with light on metasurfaces. Light Science & Applications. 5(4). e16070–e16070. 95 indexed citations
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Cencillo‐Abad, Pablo, Eric Plum, Edward T. F. Rogers, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2016). Spatial optical phase-modulating metadevice with subwavelength pixelation. Optics Express. 24(16). 18790–18790. 12 indexed citations
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Plum, Eric, et al.. (2015). Dynamic mode multiplexing with plasmonic metasurfaces. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis, Eric Plum, Jinhui Shi, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2015). Coherent control of optical polarization effects in metamaterials. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8977–8977. 60 indexed citations
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Ren, Mengxin, Eric Plum, Jun‐Yu Xu, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2012). From nonlinear optics to nonlinear plasmonics: Giant nonlinear optical activity in a metamaterial. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Plum, Eric, Mengxin Ren, V.A. Fedotov, Jingjun Xu, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2012). Giant linear and nonlinear optical activity in metamaterials. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Ren, Mengxin, Eric Plum, Jingjun Xu, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2012). Giant nonlinear optical activity in a plasmonic metamaterial. Nature Communications. 3(1). 833–833. 185 indexed citations
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Ou, Jun‐Yu, Eric Plum, Liudi Jiang, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2011). Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials. QThK2–QThK2. 4 indexed citations
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Singh, Ranjan, Eric Plum, Weili Zhang, & Nikolay I. Zheludev. (2010). Highly tunable optical activity in planar achiral terahertz metamaterials. Optics Express. 18(13). 13425–13425. 148 indexed citations
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Plum, Eric. (2009). Metamaterials: the next photonic revolution. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

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