Richard D. Averitt

28.1k total citations · 13 hit papers
255 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

Richard D. Averitt is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard D. Averitt has authored 255 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 127 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 61 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Richard D. Averitt's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (109 papers), Terahertz technology and applications (84 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (44 papers). Richard D. Averitt is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (109 papers), Terahertz technology and applications (84 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (44 papers). Richard D. Averitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Germany. Richard D. Averitt's co-authors include Willie J. Padilla, Naomi J. Halas, Antoinette J. Taylor, Sarah L. Westcott, Xin Zhang, Hou‐Tong Chen, Kebin Fan, Andrew C. Strikwerda, Hu Tao and Steven J. Oldenburg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard D. Averitt

250 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

Active terahertz metamaterial devices 1997 2026 2006 2016 2006 1998 2008 2012 2009 500 1000 1.5k
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. Active terahertz metamaterial devices
    2006 1.9k citations Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  2. Nanoengineering of optical resonances
    1998 1.8k citations Steven J. Oldenburg, Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  3. A metamaterial absorber for the terahertz regime: design, fabrication and characterization
    2008 1.2k citations Xin Zhang, Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  4. Terahertz-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide metamaterial
    2012 1.1k citations Aaron Sternbach, Xin Zhang et al. profile →
  5. A metamaterial solid-state terahertz phase modulator
    2009 786 citations Richard D. Averitt, Antoinette J. Taylor et al. profile →
  6. Highly flexible wide angle of incidence terahertz metamaterial absorber: Design, fabrication, and characterization
    2008 769 citations Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  7. Dynamical Electric and Magnetic Metamaterial Response at Terahertz Frequencies
    2006 707 citations Antoinette J. Taylor, Richard D. Averitt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Experimental demonstration of frequency-agile terahertz metamaterials
    2008 699 citations Antoinette J. Taylor, Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  9. Towards properties on demand in quantum materials
    2017 581 citations D. N. Basov, Richard D. Averitt et al. Nature Materials profile →
  10. Electrodynamics of correlated electron materials
    2011 568 citations D. N. Basov, Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →
  11. Plasmon Resonance Shifts of Au-CoatedAu2SNanoshells: Insight into Multicomponent Nanoparticle Growth
    1997 560 citations Richard D. Averitt, Naomi J. Halas et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  12. Linear optical properties of gold nanoshells
    1999 493 citations Richard D. Averitt, Sarah L. Westcott et al. profile →
  13. A dual band terahertz metamaterial absorber
    2010 461 citations Xin Zhang, Richard D. Averitt et al. profile →

Peers

Richard D. Averitt
Antoinette J. Taylor United States
Ekmel Özbay Türkiye
Nikolay I. Zheludev United Kingdom
Costas M. Soukoulis United States
Alexandra Boltasseva United States
Igal Brener United States
D. N. Basov United States
Hou‐Tong Chen United States
Din Ping Tsai Taiwan
S. Schultz United States
Antoinette J. Taylor United States
Richard D. Averitt
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kaj, Kelson, et al.. (2024). All-silicon active bound states in the continuum terahertz metamaterials. Optics & Laser Technology. 179. 111176–111176. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuan, Simone Latini, Jingdi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Terahertz parametric amplification as a reporter of exciton condensate dynamics. Nature Materials. 23(6). 796–802. 9 indexed citations
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Latini, Simone, et al.. (2024). Photonic time-crystalline behaviour mediated by phonon squeezing in Ta2NiSe5. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3638–3638. 5 indexed citations
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Torre, A. de la, Kyle L. Seyler, Michael Buchhold, et al.. (2022). Decoupling of static and dynamic criticality in a driven Mott insulator. Communications Physics. 5(1). 10 indexed citations
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Stoica, Vladimir A., Danilo Puggioni, Jingdi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Magnetic order driven ultrafast phase transition in NdNiO3. Physical review. B.. 106(16). 11 indexed citations
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Sternbach, Aaron, Sang Hoon Chae, Simone Latini, et al.. (2021). Programmable hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals semiconductors. Science. 371(6529). 617–620. 77 indexed citations
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Sternbach, Aaron, Francesco L. Ruta, Yin Shi, et al.. (2021). Nanotextured Dynamics of a Light-Induced Phase Transition in VO2. Nano Letters. 21(21). 9052–9060. 19 indexed citations
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Abreu, Elsa, D. Meyers, V. K. Thorsmølle, et al.. (2020). Nucleation and Growth Bottleneck in the Conductivity Recovery Dynamics of Nickelate Ultrathin Films. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7422–7428. 7 indexed citations
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Ahadi, Kaveh, et al.. (2020). Magnetoelastic coupling to coherent acoustic phonon modes in the ferrimagnetic insulator GdTiO3. Physical review. B.. 102(8). 5 indexed citations
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Ron, A., Swati Chaudhary, Guang J. Zhang, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast Enhancement of Ferromagnetic Spin Exchange Induced by Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer. Physical Review Letters. 125(19). 197203–197203. 22 indexed citations
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Cremin, Kevin, Jingdi Zhang, C. C. Homes, et al.. (2019). Photoenhanced metastable c-axis electrodynamics in stripe-ordered cuprate La 1.885 Ba 0.115 CuO 4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(40). 19875–19879. 58 indexed citations
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Teitelbaum, Samuel W., Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai, Yu‐Hsiang Cheng, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of a Persistent Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Strained Manganite Films. Physical Review Letters. 123(26). 267201–267201. 17 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoguang, Jingdi Zhang, Jacob Schalch, et al.. (2017). A three-dimensional all-metal terahertz metamaterial perfect absorber. Applied Physics Letters. 111(5). 85 indexed citations
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Thorsmølle, V. K., Richard D. Averitt, J. Demšar, et al.. (2009). Photoexcited carrier relaxation dynamics in pentacene probed by ultrafast optical spectroscopy: Influence of morphology on relaxation processes. Physica B Condensed Matter. 404(19). 3127–3130. 21 indexed citations
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Hilton, David, Rohit P. Prasankumar, S. Fourmaux, et al.. (2007). Enhanced Photosusceptibility nearTcfor the Light-Induced Insulator-to-Metal Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide. Physical Review Letters. 99(22). 226401–226401. 203 indexed citations
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Kaindl, Robert A. & Richard D. Averitt. (2006). Time-resolved THz studies of carrier dynamics in semiconductors, superconductors, and strongly-correlated electron materials. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 119–170. 60 indexed citations
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Averitt, Richard D., David J. Funk, Daniel E. Hooks, Q. McCulloch, & Antoinette J. Taylor. (2004). Terahertz spectroscopy of single crystal HMX. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1. 923–924. 1 indexed citations
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Nastasi, M., P. Asoka‐Kumar, Zsolt Jenei, et al.. (2004). Experimental Evidence of the Role of Intericosahedral Chains in the Hardness of Boron Carbide Films Deposited by Sputtering. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Thorsmølle, V. K., Richard D. Averitt, M. P. Maley, et al.. (2002). Evidence for Linelike Vortex Liquid Phase in Tl 2 Ba 2 CaCu 2 O 8 Probed Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. APS. 1 indexed citations
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Oldenburg, Steven J., Richard D. Averitt, Sarah L. Westcott, & Naomi J. Halas. (1998). Higher Order Plasmon Resonances of Gold Nanoshells. APS. 1 indexed citations

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