Kurt Busch

11.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
242 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Kurt Busch is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Busch has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 195 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 132 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 59 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kurt Busch's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (120 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (108 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (48 papers). Kurt Busch is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (120 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (108 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (48 papers). Kurt Busch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Kurt Busch's co-authors include Sajeev John, Martin Wegener, Georg von Freymann, Jens Niegemann, Costas M. Soukoulis, M. Deubel, Suresh Pereira, Sergei F. Mingaleev, U. Gösele and Stefan Lindén and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Busch

231 papers receiving 8.6k citations

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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.

Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic-crystal templates for telecommunications

2004 803 citations M. Deubel, Georg von Freymann et al. Nature Materials profile →
Photonic band gap formation in certain self-organizing systems

1998 711 citations Kurt Busch et al. profile →
Liquid-Crystal Photonic-Band-Gap Materials: The Tunable Electromagnetic Vacuum

1999 598 citations Kurt Busch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt Busch Germany	45	6.6k	4.5k	3.1k	1.6k	1.3k	242	8.9k
Takashi Asano Japan	47	9.2k 1.4×	8.6k 1.9×	3.4k 1.1×	973 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	251	11.4k
C. M. Soukoulis United States	48	6.4k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	119	8.8k
Masaya Notomi Japan	59	11.8k 1.8×	11.1k 2.5×	4.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	975 0.8×	351	14.2k
Michael Scalora United States	44	6.9k 1.0×	4.6k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.6×	550 0.4×	288	8.9k
Kazuaki Sakoda Japan	40	5.5k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	248	6.7k
Pochi Yeh United States	35	7.6k 1.2×	6.8k 1.5×	2.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	763 0.6×	218	10.7k
Joshua N. Winn United States	7	5.4k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.5×	985 0.6×	593 0.5×	8	6.6k
Pierre R. Villeneuve United States	30	10.5k 1.6×	8.9k 2.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	967 0.8×	50	11.8k
Claude Weisbuch France	57	11.0k 1.7×	6.5k 1.5×	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	2.9k 2.3×	223	13.7k
Alexander B. Khanikaev United States	46	8.8k 1.3×	3.4k 0.8×	4.7k 1.5×	4.7k 3.0×	1.3k 1.0×	140	12.0k

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Busch, Kurt, et al.. (2025). Relativistic electron energy-loss spectroscopy in cylindrical waveguides and holes. Physical review. B.. 111(20). 1 indexed citations

Mortensen, N. Asger, et al.. (2024). Electron beams traversing spherical nanoparticles: Analytic and numerical treatment. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 10 indexed citations

Bucher, Tobias, et al.. (2024). Spectroscopic Study of the Excitonic Structure in Monolayer MoS₂ under Multivariate Physical and Chemical Stimuli. physica status solidi (a). 221(1).

Mortensen, N. Asger, et al.. (2023). Halevi's extension of the Euler-Drude model for plasmonic systems. Physical review. B.. 107(11). 9 indexed citations

Bucher, Tobias, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic Study of the Excitonic Structure in Monolayer MoS₂ under Multivariate Physical and Chemical Stimuli. physica status solidi (a). 221(1). 2 indexed citations

Busch, Kurt, et al.. (2022). Topological protection of partially coherent light. Photonics Research. 10(5). 1223–1223. 2 indexed citations

Kiel, T., et al.. (2021). Electron energy loss spectroscopy on freestanding perforated gold films. Physical review. B.. 103(11). 2 indexed citations

Franco, Rosario Lo, et al.. (2021). Topological protection of highly entangled non-Gaussian two-photon states. edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin). 1(3). 35001–35001. 1 indexed citations

Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Misha Ivanov, et al.. (2021). Topological protection versus degree of entanglement of two-photon light in photonic topological insulators. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1974–1974. 24 indexed citations

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Tserkezis, Christos, Antonio I. Fernández‐Domínguez, P. A. D. Gonçalves, et al.. (2020). On the applicability of quantum-optical concepts in strong-coupling nanophotonics:Key Issues Review. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 60 indexed citations

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Intravaia, F., et al.. (2020). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of quantum friction. Physical review. A. 102(5). 29 indexed citations

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León‐Montiel, Roberto de J., Vicenç Méndez, Mario A. Quiroz‐Juárez, et al.. (2019). Two-particle quantum correlations in stochastically-coupled networks. New Journal of Physics. 21(5). 53041–53041. 1 indexed citations

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Quiroz‐Juárez, Mario A., Armando Pérez-Leija, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara, et al.. (2019). Exceptional points of any order in a single, lossy waveguide beam splitter by photon-number-resolved detection. Photonics Research. 7(8). 862–862. 36 indexed citations

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Pérez-Leija, Armando, Diego Guzmán-Silva, Roberto de J. León‐Montiel, et al.. (2018). Endurance of quantum coherence due to particle indistinguishability in noisy quantum networks. npj Quantum Information. 4(1). 27 indexed citations

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Wolff, Christian, et al.. (2016). Ultrafast three-wave-mixing in plasmonic nanostructures. Applied Physics B. 122(5). 5 indexed citations

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Bergmann, Antje, et al.. (2013). A low-cost AFM setup with an interferometer for undergraduates and secondary-school students. European Journal of Physics. 34(4). 901–914. 11 indexed citations

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Blum, Christian, Christian Wolff, & Kurt Busch. (2011). Photonic-crystal time-domain simulations using Wannier functions. Optics Letters. 36(2). 307–307. 5 indexed citations

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Busch, Kurt, Michael König, & Jens Niegemann. (2011). Discontinuous Galerkin methods in nanophotonics. Laser & Photonics Review. 5(6). 773–809. 122 indexed citations

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Staude, Isabelle, Michael Thiel, Sabine Essig, et al.. (2010). Fabrication and characterization of silicon woodpile photonic crystals with a complete bandgap at telecom wavelengths. Optics Letters. 35(7). 1094–1094. 65 indexed citations

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Deubel, M., Georg von Freymann, Martin Wegener, et al.. (2004). Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic-crystal templates for telecommunications. Nature Materials. 3(7). 444–447. 803 indexed citations breakdown →

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