Riccardo Sapienza

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Riccardo Sapienza is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Acoustics and Ultrasonics. According to data from OpenAlex, Riccardo Sapienza has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 37 papers in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Recurrent topics in Riccardo Sapienza's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (41 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (37 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (32 papers). Riccardo Sapienza is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (41 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (37 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (32 papers). Riccardo Sapienza collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. Riccardo Sapienza's co-authors include Cefe López, Álvaro Blanco, Diederik S. Wiersma, P. D. García, Jacopo Bertolotti, Luis S. Froufe‐Pérez, Marta Ibisate, Juan F. Galisteo‐López, N.F. van Hulst and Geoffrey A. Ozin and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Riccardo Sapienza

93 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Self‐Assembled Photonic Structures

2010 564 citations Riccardo Sapienza, Luis S. Froufe‐Pérez et al. profile →
Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

2023 113 citations Stefano Vezzoli, Emanuele Galiffi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Riccardo Sapienza United Kingdom	35	2.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	1.0k	98	4.4k
Anderson S. L. Gomes Brazil	40	2.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	349	6.1k
M. A. Noginov United States	38	3.1k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	3.3k 2.4×	1.3k 1.1×	963 0.9×	175	6.4k
Cid B. de Araújo Brazil	48	3.8k 1.4×	3.1k 2.0×	2.6k 1.8×	4.5k 3.9×	1.4k 1.3×	391	9.1k
A. Femius Koenderink Netherlands	47	3.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.8×	4.2k 3.0×	1.1k 1.0×	242 0.2×	153	7.0k
E. W. Seelig United States	9	1.4k 0.5×	939 0.6×	505 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	9	3.0k
N. M. Lawandy United States	22	2.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	567 0.4×	237 0.2×	1.5k 1.4×	162	2.9k
Cefe López Spain	48	7.1k 2.7×	4.1k 2.7×	2.9k 2.0×	3.2k 2.8×	1.2k 1.1×	188	10.2k
E. Hendry United Kingdom	38	3.3k 1.2×	3.7k 2.4×	2.9k 2.1×	2.0k 1.7×	297 0.3×	98	7.4k
M. F. Limonov Russia	28	2.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	2.2k 1.6×	492 0.4×	107 0.1×	122	4.5k
Luis S. Froufe‐Pérez Spain	21	1.4k 0.5×	562 0.4×	875 0.6×	419 0.4×	357 0.3×	53	2.1k

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Raziman, T. V., Wai Kit Ng, Dhruv Saxena, et al.. (2025). Single-Mode Emission by Phase-Delayed Coupling Between Nanolasers. ACS Photonics. 12(5). 2337–2343.

Vezzoli, Stefano, Dhruv Saxena, Shu Yang, et al.. (2024). Second harmonic generation at a time-varying interface. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7752–7752. 11 indexed citations

Tilmann, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear Dielectric Epsilon Near‐Zero Hybrid Nanogap Antennas. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(9). 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Bin, et al.. (2024). Colloidal TiO₂ nanocrystals with engineered defectivity and optical properties. Nanoscale Horizons. 9(9). 1568–1573.

Saxena, Dhruv, Wai Kit Ng, Noelia Vico Triviño, et al.. (2024). Designed Semiconductor Network Random Lasers. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Ta, Van Duong, et al.. (2024). Random lasing in micron-sized individual supraparticles. Optics Letters. 49(14). 3886–3886. 4 indexed citations

Petruzzella, Maurangelo, et al.. (2023). High spatial resolution imaging of light localization in hyperuniform disordered patterns of circular air pores in a dielectric slab. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4. 3 indexed citations

Vezzoli, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Purifying single photon emission from giant shell CdSe/CdS quantum dots at room temperature. Nanoscale. 15(4). 1645–1651. 14 indexed citations

Vynck, Kévin, Romain Pierrat, Rémi Carminati, et al.. (2023). Light in correlated disordered media. Reviews of Modern Physics. 95(4). 60 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Riccardo, Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Daniele Faccio, Tie Jun Cui, & Hümeyra Çağlayan. (2023). APL special topic: Time modulated metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters. 123(16). 2 indexed citations

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Vidal, Cynthia, et al.. (2023). Single-Photon Emitting Arrays by Capillary Assembly of Colloidal Semiconductor CdSe/CdS/SiO₂Nanocrystals. ACS Photonics. 10(5). 1662–1670. 11 indexed citations

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Veldhoven, P. J. van, Riccardo Sapienza, Andrea Fiore, et al.. (2023). Near-field imaging of optical nanocavities in hyperuniform disordered materials. Physical review. B.. 107(6). 14 indexed citations

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Glass, Daniel, Raúl Quesada-Cabrera, Riccardo Sapienza, et al.. (2021). Probing the Role of Atomic Defects in Photocatalytic Systems through Photoinduced Enhanced Raman Scattering. ACS Energy Letters. 6(12). 4273–4281. 34 indexed citations

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Ta, Van Duong, Soraya Caixeiro, Dhruv Saxena, & Riccardo Sapienza. (2021). Biocompatible Polymer and Protein Microspheres with Inverse Photonic Glass Structure for Random Micro‐Biolasers. Advanced Photonics Research. 2(8). 3 indexed citations

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Ta, Van Duong, Soraya Caixeiro, Dhruv Saxena, & Riccardo Sapienza. (2021). Biocompatible Polymer and Protein Microspheres with Inverse Photonic Glass Structure for Random Micro‐Biolasers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(8). 9 indexed citations

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Pensa, Evangelina, Ali Hossain Khan, Anatolii Polovitsyn, et al.. (2020). Electrical control of single-photon emission in highly charged individual colloidal quantum dots. Science Advances. 6(38). 40 indexed citations

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Ta, Van Duong, Dhruv Saxena, Soraya Caixeiro, & Riccardo Sapienza. (2020). Flexible and tensile microporous polymer fibers for wavelength-tunable random lasing. Nanoscale. 12(23). 12357–12363. 23 indexed citations

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Gaio, Michele, Dhruv Saxena, Jacopo Bertolotti, et al.. (2019). A nanophotonic laser on a graph. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 57 indexed citations

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Gaio, Michele, et al.. (2018). Metal–Dielectric Parabolic Antenna for Directing Single Photons. Nano Letters. 18(5). 3060–3065. 24 indexed citations

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Caixeiro, Soraya, et al.. (2017). Disordered Cellulose-Based Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Scattering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(9). 7885–7890. 46 indexed citations

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