Martin Wegener

47.6k total citations · 18 hit papers
542 papers, 36.8k citations indexed

About

Martin Wegener is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Wegener has authored 542 papers receiving a total of 36.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 249 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 151 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Martin Wegener's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (133 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (116 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (95 papers). Martin Wegener is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (133 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (116 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (95 papers). Martin Wegener collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. Martin Wegener's co-authors include Stefan Lindén, Costas M. Soukoulis, Muamer Kadic, Georg von Freymann, Michael Thiel, C. Enkrich, Joachim Fischer, Tiemo Bückmann, Tobias Frenzel and Robert Schittny and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Martin Wegener

521 papers receiving 35.4k citations

Hit Papers

Gold Helix Photonic Metamaterial as Broadband Circular Po... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2009 2011 2004 2010 2017 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Gold Helix Photonic Metamaterial as Broadband Circular Polarizer
    2009 2.1k citations Georg von Freymann, Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  2. Past achievements and future challenges in the development of three-dimensional photonic metamaterials
    2011 1.3k citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  3. Magnetic Response of Metamaterials at 100 Terahertz
    2004 1.2k citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  4. Three-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak at Optical Wavelengths
    2010 959 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  5. Three-dimensional mechanical metamaterials with a twist
    2017 828 citations Tobias Frenzel, Muamer Kadic et al. profile →
  6. Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic-crystal templates for telecommunications
    2004 803 citations Georg von Freymann, Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  7. 3D metamaterials
    2019 800 citations Muamer Kadic, Martin Wegener et al. Nature Reviews Physics profile →
  8. Negative Refractive Index at Optical Wavelengths
    2007 745 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  9. Magnetic Metamaterials at Telecommunication and Visible Frequencies
    2005 617 citations Martin Wegener et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Simultaneous Negative Phase and Group Velocity of Light in a Metamaterial
    2006 613 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  11. Negative-index metamaterial at 780 nm wavelength
    2006 590 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  12. Second-Harmonic Generation from Magnetic Metamaterials
    2006 587 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  13. Tailored 3D Mechanical Metamaterials Made by Dip‐in Direct‐Laser‐Writing Optical Lithography
    2012 549 citations Muamer Kadic, Johannes Kaschke et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  14. Three‐dimensional optical laser lithography beyond the diffraction limit
    2012 542 citations Joachim Fischer, Martin Wegener profile →
  15. Experiments on Transformation Thermodynamics: Molding the Flow of Heat
    2013 496 citations Muamer Kadic, Sébastien Guenneau et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  16. An elasto-mechanical unfeelability cloak made of pentamode metamaterials
    2014 495 citations Muamer Kadic, Martin Wegener et al. Nature Communications profile →
  17. Circular dichroism of planar chiral magnetic metamaterials
    2007 409 citations Martin Wegener et al. profile →
  18. Tailored Buckling Microlattices as Reusable Light‐Weight Shock Absorbers
    2016 358 citations Tobias Frenzel, Muamer Kadic et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Martin Wegener Germany 91 18.2k 15.2k 13.1k 7.2k 6.0k 542 36.8k
Ping Sheng Hong Kong 96 22.0k 1.2× 12.5k 0.8× 8.2k 0.6× 7.5k 1.0× 5.7k 1.0× 619 42.5k
C. T. Chan Hong Kong 95 16.5k 0.9× 14.2k 0.9× 20.9k 1.6× 8.3k 1.2× 6.3k 1.0× 546 40.3k
Nicholas X. Fang United States 69 15.9k 0.9× 10.0k 0.7× 4.9k 0.4× 4.6k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 270 27.0k
Cheng‐Wei Qiu Singapore 118 17.7k 1.0× 26.7k 1.8× 19.0k 1.5× 11.0k 1.5× 14.7k 2.4× 712 46.9k
Shining Zhu China 71 7.0k 0.4× 8.5k 0.6× 11.2k 0.9× 7.8k 1.1× 3.6k 0.6× 660 28.2k
Minghui Hong Singapore 73 10.8k 0.6× 7.2k 0.5× 5.6k 0.4× 6.8k 0.9× 2.6k 0.4× 454 22.6k
Vladimir M. Shalaev United States 96 22.4k 1.2× 28.1k 1.9× 15.6k 1.2× 10.3k 1.4× 9.9k 1.6× 481 42.5k
Junsuk Rho South Korea 78 7.9k 0.4× 13.4k 0.9× 8.1k 0.6× 5.5k 0.8× 6.0k 1.0× 442 22.1k
Harald Gießen Germany 90 23.6k 1.3× 20.6k 1.4× 15.4k 1.2× 12.4k 1.7× 4.2k 0.7× 543 37.3k
Marin Soljačić United States 91 11.1k 0.6× 9.7k 0.6× 24.5k 1.9× 19.9k 2.8× 2.8k 0.5× 405 42.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Wegener

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yi, Romain Fleury, Pierre Seppecher, Gengkai Hu, & Martin Wegener. (2025). Nonlocal metamaterials and metasurfaces. Nature Reviews Physics. 7(6). 299–312. 5 indexed citations
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Kraus, Steven J., Florian Feist, Erich Müller, et al.. (2024). Photothermal Laser Printing of Sub‐Micrometer Crystalline ZnO Structures. Advanced Science. 12(4). e2410771–e2410771. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Tang, Maik Kahnt, Thomas L. Sheppard, et al.. (2024). X‐Ray Multibeam Ptychography at up to 20 keV: Nano‐Lithography Enhances X‐Ray Nano‐Imaging. Advanced Science. 11(30). e2310075–e2310075. 5 indexed citations
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Marques, Gabriel Cadilha, Liang Yang, Torsten Scherer, et al.. (2023). Fully Printed Electrolyte‐Gated Transistor Formed in a 3D Polymer Reservoir with Laser Printed Drain/Source Electrodes. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(22). 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Liang, Alexander Scholz, Florian Feist, et al.. (2023). Laser printed microelectronics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1103–1103. 52 indexed citations
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Gerhard, Lukas, Michal Valášek, Christof Holzer, et al.. (2023). Activating Electroluminescence of Charged Naphthalene Diimide Complexes Directly Adsorbed on a Metal Substrate. Physical Review Letters. 130(3). 36201–36201. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi, Ke Wang, Muamer Kadic, et al.. (2023). Phonon transmission through a nonlocal metamaterial slab. Communications Physics. 6(1). 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Ke, Yi Chen, Muamer Kadic, Changguo Wang, & Martin Wegener. (2022). Nonlocal interaction engineering of 2D roton-like dispersion relations in acoustic and mechanical metamaterials. Communications Materials. 3(1). 39 indexed citations
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Münchinger, Alexander, Alexander Welle, Jana Zaumseil, et al.. (2022). A Facile Approach for 4D Microprinting of Multi‐Photoresponsive Actuators. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(1). 39 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi, Muamer Kadic, & Martin Wegener. (2021). Roton-like acoustical dispersion relations in 3D metamaterials. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3278–3278. 94 indexed citations
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Frenzel, Tobias, Vincent Hahn, Yi Chen, et al.. (2021). Large characteristic lengths in 3D chiral elastic metamaterials. Communications Materials. 2(1). 51 indexed citations
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Beutel, Dominik, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the optical rotation of chiral molecules using helicity preserving all-dielectric metasurfaces. Applied Physics Letters. 118(22). 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi, Tobias Frenzel, Quan Zhang, Muamer Kadic, & Martin Wegener. (2021). Cubic metamaterial crystal supporting broadband isotropic chiral phonons. Physical Review Materials. 5(2). 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi, Muamer Kadic, Sébastien Guenneau, & Martin Wegener. (2020). Isotropic Chiral Acoustic Phonons in 3D Quasicrystalline Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters. 124(23). 235502–235502. 32 indexed citations
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Dong, Zheqin, Martin Schumann, Matti J. Hokkanen, et al.. (2018). Superoleophobic Slippery Lubricant‐Infused Surfaces: Combining Two Extremes in the Same Surface. Advanced Materials. 30(45). e1803890–e1803890. 142 indexed citations
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Richter, Benjamin, Alexander S. Quick, Joachim Fischer, et al.. (2017). Molecular Switch for Sub-Diffraction Laser Lithography by Photoenol Intermediate-State Cis–Trans Isomerization. ACS Nano. 11(6). 6396–6403. 49 indexed citations
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Schell, Andreas W., Johannes Kaschke, Joachim Fischer, et al.. (2013). Three-dimensional quantum photonic elements based on single nitrogen vacancy-centres in laser-written microstructures. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1577–1577. 82 indexed citations
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Staude, Isabelle, et al.. (2012). Visible light Laue diffraction from woodpile photonic crystals. Applied Optics. 51(28). 6732–6732. 17 indexed citations
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Wegener, Martin. (2005). Extreme nonlinear optics : an introduction. Springer eBooks. 25 indexed citations
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Donnelly, C.F., R. J. Adamek, Sebastian Suerbaum, et al.. (1996). 1A: Drug resistance in H. pylori — from basic mechanisms to clinical outcome. Gut. 39(Suppl 2). A5–A13. 1 indexed citations

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