Guillaume Ducournau

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
132 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Guillaume Ducournau is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillaume Ducournau has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Guillaume Ducournau's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (65 papers), Terahertz technology and applications (63 papers) and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design (26 papers). Guillaume Ducournau is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (65 papers), Terahertz technology and applications (63 papers) and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design (26 papers). Guillaume Ducournau collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and Germany. Guillaume Ducournau's co-authors include Tadao Nagatsuma, Cyril C. Renaud, Pascal Szriftgiser, Ranjan Singh, E. Peytavit, Jean‐François Lampin, Abhishek Kumar, Prakash Pitchappa, Manoj Gupta and Fabio Pavanello and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Guillaume Ducournau

123 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Advances in terahertz communications accelerated by photonics

2016 1.4k citations Guillaume Ducournau et al. profile →
Phototunable chip-scale topological photonics: 160 Gbps waveguide and demultiplexer for THz 6G communication

2022 167 citations Abhishek Kumar, Manoj Gupta et al. Nature Communications profile →
On-chip topological beamformer for multi-link terahertz 6G to XG wireless

2024 81 citations Wenhao Wang, Yi Ji Tan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guillaume Ducournau France	25	2.9k	1.2k	676	510	420	132	3.5k
Juncheng Cao China	26	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	395 0.6×	498 1.0×	175 0.4×	177	2.4k
Cyril C. Renaud United Kingdom	29	3.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	461 0.7×	385 0.8×	236 0.6×	137	3.7k
D. Lippens France	26	1.3k 0.5×	949 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	387 0.8×	785 1.9×	148	2.4k
V. V. Popov Russia	34	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	597 0.9×	1.9k 3.7×	77 0.2×	184	3.3k
Piotr Martyniuk Poland	25	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	159 0.2×	528 1.0×	652 1.6×	205	3.2k
M. Ryzhii Japan	26	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	294 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	65 0.2×	169	2.6k
Alvydas Lisauskas Germany	28	2.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	221 0.3×	432 0.8×	112 0.3×	148	3.1k
Wei Tan China	19	667 0.2×	880 0.7×	576 0.9×	353 0.7×	193 0.5×	80	1.6k
Jan Stake Sweden	26	2.0k 0.7×	958 0.8×	116 0.2×	419 0.8×	125 0.3×	216	2.6k
Jiasheng Ye China	24	1.1k 0.4×	814 0.7×	929 1.4×	740 1.5×	482 1.1×	104	2.0k

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Phung, Gia Ngoc, Uwe Arz, Kamel Haddadi, et al.. (2025). An Interlaboratory Comparison of On-Wafer S-Parameter Measurements up to 1.1 THz. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 15(3). 344–358. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Wenhao, Yi Ji Tan, Thomas Caiwei Tan, et al.. (2025). Tunable Topological Directional Supercoupler and Applications in THz On‐Chip Communication. Laser & Photonics Review. 20(1).

Tan, Thomas Caiwei, Abhishek Kumar, Yi Ji Tan, et al.. (2024). Topological Integrated Antenna for 6G Terahertz Wireless Communication. 1–6.

Yang, Sung Jin, Nicolás Wainstein, Guillaume Ducournau, et al.. (2024). Emerging memory electronics for non-volatile radiofrequency switching technologies. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1(1). 10–23. 22 indexed citations

Braun, Ralf-Peter, Guillaume Ducournau, Akihiko Hirata, et al.. (2024). THz Communications and the Demonstration in the ThoR–Backhaul Link. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 14(5). 554–567. 13 indexed citations

Lévêque, Gaëtan, Yan Pennec, M. Faucher, et al.. (2024). Engineering the Breaking of Topological Protection in Valley Photonic Crystals Enables to Design Chip Level Functions for THz 6G Communications and Beyond. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 42(23). 8323–8335. 3 indexed citations

Lépilliet, Sylvie, et al.. (2023). A G-Band Packaged Amplified Noise Source Using SiGe BiCMOS 55-nm Technology. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 72(3). 1775–1789. 2 indexed citations

Gupta, Manoj, et al.. (2023). 327 Gbps THz silicon photonic interconnect with sub-λ bends. Applied Physics Letters. 123(17). 8 indexed citations

Kumar, Abhishek, Manoj Gupta, Prakash Pitchappa, et al.. (2022). Phototunable chip-scale topological photonics: 160 Gbps waveguide and demultiplexer for THz 6G communication. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5404–5404. 167 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nellen, Simon, E. Peytavit, Pascal Szriftgiser, et al.. (2022). Coherent Wireless Link at 300 GHz With 160 Gbit/s Enabled by a Photonic Transmitter. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 40(13). 4178–4185. 20 indexed citations

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Kim, Myungsoo, Guillaume Ducournau, Sung Jin Yang, et al.. (2022). Monolayer molybdenum disulfide switches for 6G communication systems. Nature Electronics. 5(6). 367–373. 52 indexed citations

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Ducournau, Guillaume, Frédéric Gianesello, Cyril Luxey, et al.. (2021). Photonics-Based Near-Field Measurement and Far-Field Characterization for 300-GHz Band Antenna Testing. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. 3. 24–31. 13 indexed citations

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Okada, Étienne, et al.. (2021). Temperature compensated power detector towards power consumption optimization in 5G devices. Microelectronics Journal. 120. 105351–105351. 1 indexed citations

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Kuyken, Bart, et al.. (2020). High-Q THz Photonic Crystal Cavity on a Low-Loss Suspended Silicon Platform. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 11(1). 42–53. 24 indexed citations

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Marnat, Loïc, et al.. (2020). H-Band Substrate-Integrated Discrete-Lens Antenna for High Data Rate Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 69(7). 3677–3688. 18 indexed citations

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Lépilliet, Sylvie, et al.. (2020). 300-GHz Intermodulation/Noise Characterization Enabled by a Single THz Photonics Source. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. 30(10). 1013–1016. 9 indexed citations

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Zaknoune, M., Christophe Coinon, E. Peytavit, et al.. (2017). High Performance Heterostructure Low Barrier Diodes for Sub-THz Detection. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 7(6). 780–788. 12 indexed citations

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Blin, S., M. Myara, L. Le Gratiet, et al.. (2017). Coherent and Tunable THz Emission Driven by an Integrated III–V Semiconductor Laser. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 23(4). 1–11. 12 indexed citations

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Pavanello, Fabio, Maximilien Billet, Alexandre Beck, et al.. (2017). Generation of mW Level in the 300-GHz Band Using Resonant-Cavity-Enhanced Unitraveling Carrier Photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 7(6). 800–807. 31 indexed citations

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Peytavit, E., et al.. (2015). Characterization of transmission lines using low loss polymers up to 320 GHz. 1–2. 4 indexed citations

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