S. Mainguy

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

S. Mainguy is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Mainguy has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Computational Mechanics, 6 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in S. Mainguy's work include Laser Material Processing Techniques (7 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (5 papers) and Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (5 papers). S. Mainguy is often cited by papers focused on Laser Material Processing Techniques (7 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (5 papers) and Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (5 papers). S. Mainguy collaborates with scholars based in France and United States. S. Mainguy's co-authors include Jean‐Jacques Greffet, Rémi Carminati, Karl Joulain, Yong Chen, Jean‐Philippe Mulet, Bruno Le Garrec, V. Bagnoud, Michel Olivier, Gérard Razé and Jean‐Luc Rullier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the Optical Society of America A.

In The Last Decade

S. Mainguy

14 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Coherent emission of light by thermal sources 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 250 500 750 1000
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. Coherent emission of light by thermal sources
    2002 1.1k citations Jean‐Jacques Greffet, Rémi Carminati et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. Mainguy France 7 914 608 394 367 174 17 1.2k
Jean‐Philippe Mulet France 6 1.7k 1.9× 1.3k 2.2× 574 1.5× 648 1.8× 256 1.5× 8 2.2k
Karl Joulain France 10 1.0k 1.1× 971 1.6× 227 0.6× 309 0.8× 113 0.6× 14 1.4k
Yi Xiang Yeng United States 13 1.1k 1.2× 588 1.0× 375 1.0× 165 0.4× 539 3.1× 19 1.4k
Jin Dai China 19 355 0.4× 246 0.4× 460 1.2× 270 0.7× 161 0.9× 45 1.1k
Veronika Rinnerbauer United States 17 860 0.9× 546 0.9× 372 0.9× 227 0.6× 555 3.2× 31 1.4k
Soumyadipta Basu United States 21 1.9k 2.0× 1.3k 2.1× 346 0.9× 187 0.5× 175 1.0× 35 2.1k
M. T. Homer Reid United States 18 883 1.0× 1.1k 1.8× 187 0.5× 197 0.5× 122 0.7× 33 1.4k
Mathieu Francoeur United States 22 1.4k 1.5× 1000 1.6× 224 0.6× 176 0.5× 160 0.9× 69 1.7k
Burton Neuner United States 11 394 0.4× 309 0.5× 590 1.5× 442 1.2× 216 1.2× 37 939
Arvind Narayanaswamy United States 22 2.4k 2.6× 1.8k 3.0× 318 0.8× 281 0.8× 222 1.3× 46 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by S. Mainguy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Mainguy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of S. Mainguy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of S. Mainguy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with S. Mainguy. S. Mainguy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Mainguy, S. & L. Le Déroff. (2013). Wavefront performance analysis of Laser MégaJoule optical components. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 59. 8007–8007.
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Lavastre, Éric, et al.. (2013). Metrologies of LMJ sol-gel anti-reflective coatings in the production line. Optical Interference Coatings. ThD.2–ThD.2. 2 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2010). Performance of a high-resolution deformable mirror for wavefront correction on the LIL/LMJ and PETAL baselines. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 244(3). 32021–32021. 4 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S. & Bruno Le Garrec. (2006). Propagation of LIL/LMJ beams under the interaction with contamination particles and component surface defects. Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings). 133. 653–655. 1 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2006). Numerical and experimental study of focal spot degragation induced by particles on surface optics. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6403. 64030F–64030F. 1 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2005). Propagation of LIL/LMJ beams under the interaction with contamination particles. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5991. 59910G–59910G. 10 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2005). Downstream impact of flaws on the LIL/LMJ laser lines. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5991. 599105–599105. 18 indexed citations
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Greffet, Jean‐Jacques, Rémi Carminati, Karl Joulain, et al.. (2002). Coherent emission of light by thermal sources. Nature. 416(6876). 61–64. 1084 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greffet, Jean‐Jacques, Rémi Carminati, Karl Joulain, et al.. (2002). Design of coherent thermal sources of radiation. Proceeding of International Heat Transfer Conference 12.
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2002). Radiative properties of scattering and absorbing dense media: theory and experimental study. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 77(2). 193–210. 21 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (2001). Theoretical and experimental investigation of the extinction in a dense distribution of particles: nonlocal effects. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 18(12). 3072–3072. 24 indexed citations
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Amra, Claude, et al.. (2000). <title>Round robin of painted targets BRDF measurements</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4029. 148–159. 3 indexed citations
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Bagnoud, V. & S. Mainguy. (1999). Diffraction of electromagnetic waves by dielectric crossed gratings: a three-dimensional Rayleigh–Fourier solution. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 16(6). 1277–1277. 11 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S. & Jean‐Jacques Greffet. (1998). A numerical evaluation of Rayleigh's theory applied to scattering by randomly rough dielectric surfaces. Waves in Random Media. 8(1). 79–101. 9 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S. & Jean‐Jacques Greffet. (1998). A numerical evaluation of Rayleigh's theory applied to scattering by radomly rough dielectric surfaces. Waves in Random Media. 8(1). 79–101. 1 indexed citations
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Mainguy, S., et al.. (1991). <title>Description and calibration of a fully automated infrared scatterometer</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1530. 269–282. 5 indexed citations

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