Philip J.W. Hands

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Philip J.W. Hands 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, Philip J.W. Hands has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 28 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Philip J.W. Hands's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (31 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (23 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (15 papers). Philip J.W. Hands is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (31 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (23 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (15 papers). Philip J.W. Hands collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Philip J.W. Hands's co-authors include Gordon D. Love, Andrew K. Kirby, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Stephen Morris, Damian J. Gardiner, Harry J. Coles, Malik M. Qasim, P.J. Laughlin, D. Bloor and H. J. Coles and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Philip J.W. Hands

53 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

CLEO: Science and Innovations

2012 371 citations Philip J.W. Hands, Damian J. Gardiner et al. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philip J.W. Hands United Kingdom	20	870	798	750	547	284	54	2.1k
Weidong Shen China	26	929 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	783 1.4×	177 0.6×	146	3.4k
Bin Hu China	27	1.0k 1.2×	2.0k 2.5×	1.1k 1.4×	986 1.8×	230 0.8×	155	3.6k
Timothy D. Wilkinson United Kingdom	36	2.1k 2.4×	2.1k 2.7×	1.7k 2.2×	1.1k 2.1×	657 2.3×	261	4.5k
Ian Underwood United Kingdom	17	436 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	333 0.4×	371 0.7×	216 0.8×	134	2.1k
Michael W. Kudenov United States	23	746 0.9×	552 0.7×	405 0.5×	1.4k 2.5×	390 1.4×	113	2.6k
Guangya Zhou Singapore	28	1.1k 1.3×	1.7k 2.1×	251 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	86 0.3×	156	2.5k
Zhixiang Huang China	30	999 1.1×	2.0k 2.5×	883 1.2×	781 1.4×	88 0.3×	483	3.9k
Jinhui Shi China	33	917 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	1.8k 2.4×	1.0k 1.9×	145 0.5×	191	3.5k
Michael J. Escuti United States	35	2.1k 2.4×	1.6k 2.1×	2.0k 2.7×	1.2k 2.1×	594 2.1×	141	3.9k
Timo Gissibl Germany	17	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	402 0.5×	1.6k 2.9×	150 0.5×	23	2.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hands, Philip J.W., et al.. (2025). Identification of an upper limit to the laser pulse duration in photonic band-edge liquid crystal lasers. Journal of Applied Physics. 137(5). 1 indexed citations

Macintyre, Lisa, et al.. (2017). Design, Manufacture and Testing of Capacitive Pressure Sensors for Low-Pressure Measurement Ranges. Micromachines. 8(2). 41–41. 49 indexed citations

Shaver, Michael P., et al.. (2017). Conductive composites for oligonucleotide detection. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research. 17. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

Gardiner, Damian J., Philip J.W. Hands, Stephen Morris, Timothy D. Wilkinson, & Harry J. Coles. (2012). Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 6 indexed citations

Hands, Philip J.W., Damian J. Gardiner, Stephen Morris, et al.. (2012). CLEO: Science and Innovations. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

Mavrogordatos, Th. K., Stephen Morris, Flynn Castles, et al.. (2012). Density of photon states in dye-doped chiral nematic liquid crystal cells in the presence of losses and gain. Physical Review E. 86(1). 11705–11705. 27 indexed citations

Castles, Flynn, Francesca Chadha-Day, S.M. Morris, et al.. (2012). Blue-phase templated fabrication of three-dimensional nanostructures for photonic applications. Nature Materials. 11(7). 599–603. 243 indexed citations

Morris, Stephen, Damian J. Gardiner, Philip J.W. Hands, et al.. (2012). Electrically switchable random to photonic band-edge laser emission in chiral nematic liquid crystals. Applied Physics Letters. 100(7). 40 indexed citations

Unnithan, Ranjith Rajasekharan, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Philip J.W. Hands, & Qing Dai. (2011). Nanophotonic Three-Dimensional Microscope. Nano Letters. 11(7). 2770–2773. 17 indexed citations

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Gardiner, Damian J., Philip J.W. Hands, Stephen Morris, Timothy D. Wilkinson, & H. J. Coles. (2011). Simple and functional photonic devices from printable liquid crystal lasers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8114. 81140M–81140M. 1 indexed citations

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Hands, Philip J.W., P.J. Laughlin, & D. Bloor. (2011). Metal–polymer composite sensors for volatile organic compounds: Part 1. Flow-through chemi-resistors. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 162(1). 400–408. 18 indexed citations

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Gardiner, Damian J., et al.. (2011). Paintable band-edge liquid crystal lasers. Optics Express. 19(3). 2432–2432. 64 indexed citations

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Morris, Stephen, et al.. (2010). Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO 2010). 3 indexed citations

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Love, Gordon D., David M. Hoffman, Philip J.W. Hands, et al.. (2009). High-speed switchable lens enables the development of a volumetric stereoscopic display. Optics Express. 17(18). 15716–15716. 191 indexed citations

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Hoffman, David M., Philip J.W. Hands, Andrew K. Kirby, Gordon D. Love, & Martin S. Banks. (2009). Stereo display with time-multiplexed focal adjustment. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7237. 72370R–72370R. 3 indexed citations

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Morris, Stephen, et al.. (2008). Polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications. Optics Express. 16(23). 18827–18827. 62 indexed citations

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Hands, Philip J.W., Stephen Morris, Timothy D. Wilkinson, & Harry J. Coles. (2008). Two-dimensional liquid crystal laser array. Optics Letters. 33(5). 515–515. 27 indexed citations

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Kirby, Andrew K., Philip J.W. Hands, & Gordon D. Love. (2007). Liquid crystal multi-mode lenses and axicons based on electronic phase shift control. Optics Express. 15(21). 13496–13496. 32 indexed citations

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Kirby, Andrew K., Philip J.W. Hands, & Gordon D. Love. (2005). Adaptive lenses based on polarization modulation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6018. 601814–601814. 2 indexed citations

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Hands, Philip J.W., Andrew K. Kirby, & Gordon D. Love. (2005). Phase modulation with polymer-dispersed liquid crystals. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5894. 58940L–58940L. 8 indexed citations

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