Rubén Esteban

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
82 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Rubén Esteban is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Rubén Esteban has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 45 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 34 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Rubén Esteban's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (41 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (33 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Rubén Esteban is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (41 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (33 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Rubén Esteban collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United Kingdom. Rubén Esteban's co-authors include Javier Aizpurua, A. G. Borisov, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Peter Nordlander, Matthew M. Hawkeye, K. Savage, Mikołaj K. Schmidt, Jean‐Jacques Greffet, Richard W. Taylor and Kenneth B. Crozier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rubén Esteban

76 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Revealing the quantum regime in tunnelling plasmonics

2012 801 citations Rubén Esteban, A. G. Borisov et al. profile →
Bridging quantum and classical plasmonics with a quantum-corrected model

2012 769 citations Rubén Esteban, A. G. Borisov et al. Nature Communications profile →
Single-molecule optomechanics in “picocavities”

2016 655 citations Cloudy Carnegie, Bart de Nijs et al. profile →
Quantum mechanical effects in plasmonic structures with subnanometre gaps

2016 631 citations Rubén Esteban, A. G. Borisov et al. Nature Communications profile →
Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit

2018 270 citations Marta Autore, Peining Li et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rubén Esteban Spain	34	4.5k	3.8k	2.5k	1.8k	1.2k	82	6.5k
Bart de Nijs United Kingdom	32	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	68	5.2k
Timur Shegai Sweden	39	3.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	69	5.4k
Ulrich Hohenester Austria	41	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	3.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	165	6.6k
Shunping Zhang China	40	3.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	105	5.8k
Cristian Ciracì Italy	26	3.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	637 0.5×	65	4.5k
Felix Benz United Kingdom	23	2.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	775 0.6×	34	3.8k
Palash Bharadwaj United States	21	3.5k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	30	5.3k
Angela Demetriadou United Kingdom	25	2.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	967 0.6×	770 0.6×	45	3.8k
Alexandre Bouhélier France	40	4.3k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	798 0.7×	133	5.3k
Edward S. Barnard United States	30	4.9k 1.1×	3.2k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	3.4k 1.9×	2.8k 2.3×	73	8.0k

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Mueller, Niclas S., Shu Hu, Rakesh Arul, et al.. (2025). Optomechanical Pumping of Collective Molecular Vibrations in Plasmonic Nanocavities. ACS Nano. 19(11). 10977–10988. 2 indexed citations

Trebbia, Jean-Baptiste, Rubén Esteban, Philippe Tamarat, et al.. (2025). Addressing the Correlation of Stokes-Shifted Photons Emitted from Two Quantum Emitters. Physical Review Letters. 135(16). 163602–163602.

Schnell, Martin, Maria Ramos, Andrei Bylinkin, et al.. (2025). Real-space observation of flat-band ultrastrong coupling between optical phonons and surface plasmon polaritons. Nature Materials. 25(2). 216–222.

Esteban, Rubén, et al.. (2024). Tailoring the statistics of light emitted from two interacting quantum emitters. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 2 indexed citations

Blinder, Rémi, Valery A. Davydov, V. Agafonov, et al.. (2024). Giant Quantum Electrodynamic Effects on Single SiV Color Centers in Nanosized Diamonds. ACS Nano. 18(8). 6406–6412. 5 indexed citations

Boto, Roberto A., Bart de Nijs, Rubén Esteban, et al.. (2024). Uncovering low-frequency vibrations in surface-enhanced Raman of organic molecules. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6733–6733. 11 indexed citations

Montaño‐Priede, José Luis, et al.. (2024). An overview on plasmon‐enhanced photoluminescence via metallic nanoantennas. Nanophotonics. 13(26). 4771–4794. 7 indexed citations

Boto, Roberto A., et al.. (2024). Theoretical Procedure for Precise Evaluation of Chemical Enhancement in Molecular Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(43). 18293–18304. 6 indexed citations

Baumberg, Jeremy J., et al.. (2023). Quantum Plasmonics in Sub-Atom-Thick Optical Slots. Nano Letters. 23(23). 10696–10702. 5 indexed citations

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Neuman, Tomáš, et al.. (2023). Dispersive surface‐response formalism to address nonlocality in extreme plasmonic field confinement. Nanophotonics. 12(16). 3277–3289. 12 indexed citations

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Deacon, William M., Yuan Zhang, Bart de Nijs, et al.. (2023). Giant optomechanical spring effect in plasmonic nano- and picocavities probed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3291–3291. 33 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Sofia, Javier Aizpurua, & Rubén Esteban. (2023). Influence of direct dipole-dipole interactions on the optical response of two-dimensional materials in strongly inhomogeneous infrared cavity fields. Physical review. A. 108(4). 2 indexed citations

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Olmos‐Trigo, Jorge, Rubén Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, et al.. (2023). Characterizing the Backscattered Spectrum of Mie Spheres. Laser & Photonics Review. 18(2). 4 indexed citations

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Ogando, E., Christos Tserkezis, N. Asger Mortensen, et al.. (2022). Quantum surface effects in the electromagnetic coupling between a quantum emitter and a plasmonic nanoantenna: time-dependent density functional theory vs. semiclassical Feibelman approach. Optics Express. 30(12). 21159–21159. 22 indexed citations

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Nilsson, Sara, Alvaro Posada-Borbón, Alice Bastos da Silva Fanta, et al.. (2022). Probing the role of grain boundaries in single Cu nanoparticle oxidation by in situ plasmonic scattering. Physical Review Materials. 6(4). 5 indexed citations

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Gupta, Satyendra Nath, Ora Bitton, Tomáš Neuman, et al.. (2021). Complex plasmon-exciton dynamics revealed through quantum dot light emission in a nanocavity. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 69 indexed citations

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Esteban, Rubén, et al.. (2021). Electronic Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in a Nanocavity Beyond the Electromagnetic Interaction Picture. Nano Letters. 21(19). 8466–8473. 16 indexed citations

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Esteban, Rubén, et al.. (2020). Second-Harmonic Generation from a Quantum Emitter Coupled to a Metallic Nanoantenna. ACS Photonics. 7(3). 701–713. 17 indexed citations

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Autore, Marta, Irene Dolado, Peining Li, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Light–Matter Interaction in ¹⁰B Monoisotopic Boron Nitride Infrared Nanoresonators. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(5). 33 indexed citations

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Neuman, Tomáš, et al.. (2018). Asymmetry of Fano resonances in exciton-plasmon interaction. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)).

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