Matthew Pelton

12.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Matthew Pelton is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Pelton has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 60 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthew Pelton's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (40 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (32 papers). Matthew Pelton is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (40 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (32 papers). Matthew Pelton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Matthew Pelton's co-authors include Y. Yamamoto, Charles Santori, Glenn S. Solomon, Garnett W. Bryant, Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest, Norbert F. Scherer, Stephen K. Gray, Oliver Benson, Javier Aizpurua and Mingzhao Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Pelton

119 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

Regulated and Entangled Photons from a Single Quantum Dot 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2001 2008 2002 2015 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. Regulated and Entangled Photons from a Single Quantum Dot
    2000 718 citations Charles Santori, Matthew Pelton et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot
    2001 681 citations Charles Santori, Matthew Pelton et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Metal‐nanoparticle plasmonics
    2008 540 citations Matthew Pelton, Garnett W. Bryant et al. profile →
  4. Efficient Source of Single Photons: A Single Quantum Dot in a Micropost Microcavity
    2002 500 citations Matthew Pelton, Charles Santori et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Modified spontaneous emission in nanophotonic structures
    2015 499 citations Matthew Pelton profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew Pelton United States 49 5.1k 4.1k 4.0k 3.3k 2.6k 121 9.5k
Xiaoqin Li United States 46 4.7k 0.9× 3.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 3.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.9× 190 9.1k
Jacob B. Khurgin United States 55 6.2k 1.2× 6.8k 1.7× 4.2k 1.0× 2.4k 0.7× 2.7k 1.1× 492 11.6k
Darrick E. Chang Spain 44 9.2k 1.8× 4.2k 1.0× 4.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.4× 2.6k 1.0× 100 12.2k
Ulrich Hohenester Austria 41 3.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 3.3k 0.8× 1.5k 0.4× 2.7k 1.1× 165 6.6k
Christoph Lienau Germany 45 5.1k 1.0× 3.1k 0.8× 4.4k 1.1× 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 241 8.6k
W. Langbein United Kingdom 53 6.9k 1.4× 4.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 592 0.2× 334 9.5k
A. Femius Koenderink Netherlands 47 3.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 4.2k 1.0× 1.1k 0.3× 3.1k 1.2× 153 7.0k
Ren‐Min Ma China 33 4.5k 0.9× 4.0k 1.0× 4.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.4× 2.5k 1.0× 73 8.2k
Igor Aharonovich Australia 58 5.3k 1.1× 3.9k 1.0× 3.2k 0.8× 9.1k 2.8× 999 0.4× 285 12.8k
Alexander N. Poddubny Russia 37 4.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 3.2k 1.3× 168 7.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Choi, Minho, et al.. (2025). Opportunities and Challenges of Solid-State Quantum Nonlinear Optics. ACS Nano. 19(15). 14557–14578. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Junyeob, Ashish Chanana, Aaron M. Katzenmeyer, et al.. (2024). Enhanced zero‐phonon line emission from an ensemble of W centers in circular and bowtie Bragg grating cavities. Nanophotonics. 14(11). 1939–1948.
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Lee, Hyeongwoo, Ju Young Woo, Yeonjeong Koo, et al.. (2024). Electrically Tunable Single Polaritonic Quantum Dot at Room Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 132(13). 133001–133001. 5 indexed citations
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Davanço, Marcelo, et al.. (2024). Fabrication of silicon W and G center embedded light-emitting diodes for electroluminescence. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 42(6). 2 indexed citations
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Pelton, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Unified Finite-Element Model for Transient Absorption and Raman Scattering of Vibrating Noble Metal Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(41). 17526–17535. 1 indexed citations
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Madadi, Mahyar, et al.. (2021). Highly Spherical Nanoparticles Probe Gigahertz Viscoelastic Flows of Simple Liquids Without the No-Slip Condition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(18). 4440–4446. 12 indexed citations
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Pelton, Matthew, et al.. (2021). Correction: Strong coupling of emitters to single plasmonic nanoparticles: exciton-induced transparency and Rabi splitting. Nanoscale. 13(8). 4687–4687. 34 indexed citations
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Lu, Xin, et al.. (2020). Second Harmonic Generation from a Single Plasmonic Nanorod Strongly Coupled to a WSe2 Monolayer. Nano Letters. 21(4). 1599–1605. 37 indexed citations
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Park, Kyoung‐Duck, et al.. (2019). Tip-enhanced strong coupling spectroscopy, imaging, and control of a single quantum emitter. Science Advances. 5(7). eaav5931–eaav5931. 129 indexed citations
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Güzeltürk, Burak, Matthew Pelton, Murat Olutaş, & Hilmi Volkan Demir. (2018). Giant Modal Gain Coefficients in Colloidal II–VI Nanoplatelets. Nano Letters. 19(1). 277–282. 103 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Aftab, Matthew Pelton, & Jeffrey R. Guest. (2017). Understanding How Acoustic Vibrations Modulate the Optical Response of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 11(9). 9360–9369. 59 indexed citations
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Sader, John E., et al.. (2014). Viscoelastic Flows in Simple Liquids Generated by Vibrating Nanostructures. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Pelton, Matthew & Garnett W. Bryant. (2013). Introduction to Metal-Nanoparticle Plasmonics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 143 indexed citations
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McDaniel, Hunter, Matthew Pelton, Nuri Oh, & Moonsub Shim. (2012). Effects of Lattice Strain and Band Offset on Electron Transfer Rates in Type-II Nanorod Heterostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 3(9). 1094–1098. 43 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingzhao, Tae‐Woo Lee, Stephen K. Gray, Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest, & Matthew Pelton. (2009). Excitation of Dark Plasmons in Metal Nanoparticles by a Localized Emitter. Physical Review Letters. 102(10). 189 indexed citations
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Scherer, Norbert F., Matthew Pelton, Rongchao Jin, et al.. (2006). Optical nonlinearities of metal nanoparticles: single-particle measurements and correlation to structure. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6323. 632309–632309. 1 indexed citations
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Pelton, Matthew, Mingzhao Liu, Sungnam Park, Norbert F. Scherer, & Philippe Guyot‐Sionnest. (2006). Ultrafast resonant optical scattering from single gold nanorods: Large nonlinearities and plasmon saturation. Physical Review B. 73(15). 109 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bing, Glenn S. Solomon, Matthew Pelton, et al.. (2005). Fabrication of InAs quantum dots in AlAs∕GaAs DBR pillar microcavities for single photon sources. Journal of Applied Physics. 97(7). 15 indexed citations
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Santori, C., et al.. (2003). Polarization-correlated photon pairs from a single quantum dot. Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium). 98–99. 26 indexed citations
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Pelton, Matthew, C. Santori, Glenn S. Solomon, et al.. (2003). An efficient source of single photons: a single quantum dot in a micropost microcavity. 86. 97–98. 7 indexed citations

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