Saül Vélez

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Saül Vélez is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Saül Vélez has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 20 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Saül Vélez's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (19 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (14 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (13 papers). Saül Vélez is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (19 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (14 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (13 papers). Saül Vélez collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Switzerland. Saül Vélez's co-authors include Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova, Rainer Hillenbrand, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Pablo Alonso‐González, Peining Li, Irene Dolado, Francisco Javier Alfaro‐Mozaz, James H. Edgar and Song Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Saül Vélez

47 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal

2018 588 citations Weiliang Ma, Pablo Alonso‐González et al. Nature profile →
Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials

2018 376 citations Peining Li, Irene Dolado et al. Science 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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saül Vélez Spain	26	2.0k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	974	49	3.6k
Joseph G. Tischler United States	29	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	833 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	915 0.9×	125	4.2k
Zhe Fei United States	26	2.4k 1.2×	3.8k 2.1×	2.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	46	5.6k
A. Fainstein Argentina	33	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	910 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	467 0.5×	158	3.7k
Zhanghai Chen China	26	1.7k 0.9×	972 0.5×	459 0.3×	1.7k 1.6×	466 0.5×	112	3.1k
Victor W. Brar United States	30	2.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	545 0.6×	56	5.5k
Jean-Luc Pélouard France	34	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	696 0.7×	152	3.6k
Yuanda Gao United States	22	3.4k 1.7×	2.7k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	2.6k 2.4×	645 0.7×	29	7.5k
L. A. Falkovsky Russia	18	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	953 0.9×	412 0.4×	68	3.2k
Alexey Y. Nikitin Spain	42	3.4k 1.7×	4.8k 2.6×	2.7k 2.0×	2.1k 1.9×	2.0k 2.1×	112	6.9k
J. Zúñiga‐Pérez France	37	1.1k 0.6×	789 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	279 0.3×	146	3.8k

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Alonso‐González, Pablo, Andrei Bylinkin, Ana I. F. Tresguerres‐Mata, et al.. (2025). High-intensity wave vortices around subwavelength holes: From ocean tides to nanooptics. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 1(3). 100060–100060.

Vélez, Saül, Sandra Ruiz‐Gómez, Jakob Schaab, et al.. (2022). Current-driven dynamics and ratchet effect of skyrmion bubbles in a ferrimagnetic insulator. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(8). 834–841. 61 indexed citations

Dolado, Irene, Elizaveta Nikulina, Evgeny Modin, et al.. (2022). Remote near-field spectroscopy of vibrational strong coupling between organic molecules and phononic nanoresonators. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6850–6850. 41 indexed citations

Vélez, Saül, et al.. (2022). Control of field- and current-driven magnetic domain wall motion by exchange bias in Cr2O3/Co/Pt trilayers. Physical review. B.. 106(13). 4 indexed citations

Alfaro‐Mozaz, Francisco Javier, Sergio G. Rodrigo, Saül Vélez, et al.. (2021). Hyperspectral Nanoimaging of van der Waals Polaritonic Crystals. Nano Letters. 21(17). 7109–7115. 20 indexed citations

Huang, Yen‐Lin, et al.. (2021). Training the Polarization in Integrated La_0.15Bi_0.85FeO₃‐Based Devices. Advanced Materials. 33(52). e2104688–e2104688. 14 indexed citations

Schlitz, Richard, Saül Vélez, Akashdeep Kamra, et al.. (2021). Control of Nonlocal Magnon Spin Transport via Magnon Drift Currents. Physical Review Letters. 126(25). 257201–257201. 34 indexed citations

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

Alfaro‐Mozaz, Francisco Javier, Irene Dolado, Saül Vélez, et al.. (2019). Launching of hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in h-BN slabs by resonant metal plasmonic antennas. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3242–3242. 74 indexed citations

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Vélez, Saül, Vitaly N. Golovach, Andrey Chuvilin, et al.. (2019). Spin Hall magnetoresistance in a low-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnet. Physical review. B.. 100(18). 21 indexed citations

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Alfaro‐Mozaz, Francisco Javier, Sergio G. Rodrigo, Pablo Alonso‐González, et al.. (2018). Deeply subwavelength phonon-polaritonic crystal made of a van der Waals material. Nature Communications. 10(1). 42–42. 55 indexed citations

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Li, Peining, Irene Dolado, Francisco Javier Alfaro‐Mozaz, et al.. (2018). Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials. Science. 359(6378). 892–896. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Weiliang, Pablo Alonso‐González, Shaojuan Li, et al.. (2018). In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal. Nature. 562(7728). 557–562. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Govyadinov, Alexander A., Andrea Konečná, Andrey Chuvilin, et al.. (2017). Probing low-energy hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals with an electron microscope. Nature Communications. 8(1). 95–95. 111 indexed citations

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Hou, Dazhi, Zhiyong Qiu, Joseph Barker, et al.. (2017). Tunable Sign Change of Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Pt/NiO/YIG Structures. Physical Review Letters. 118(14). 147202–147202. 111 indexed citations

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Lendínez, Sergi, Saül Vélez, J. M. Hernández, et al.. (2017). Effect of temperature on magnetic solitons induced by spin-transfer torque. Figshare. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiangnan, Saül Vélez, Ainhoa Atxabal, et al.. (2017). A molecular spin-photovoltaic device. Science. 357(6352). 677–680. 165 indexed citations

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Alonso‐González, Pablo, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Yuanda Gao, et al.. (2016). Acoustic terahertz graphene plasmons revealed by photocurrent nanoscopy. Nature Nanotechnology. 12(1). 31–35. 228 indexed citations

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Subedi, Pradeep, Saül Vélez, Ferran Macià, et al.. (2013). Onset of a Propagating Self-Sustained Spin Reversal Front in a Magnetic System. Physical Review Letters. 110(20). 207203–207203. 14 indexed citations

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Vélez, Saül, Antoni García‐Santiago, J. M. Hernández, & J. Tejada. (2009). Rotating magnetic field experiments in a pure superconducting Pb sphere. Physical Review B. 80(14). 5 indexed citations

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